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The Outliers Inn


The Outliers Inn is a place where people from all businesses and roles within business can examine goings-ons from different and hopefully humourous perspectives. It’s a place where we can be a lot less serious about ourselves, what we do, what our businesses do, and the manner in which they do it.

Whether you are in finance, sales, logistics, production. operations, human resources. facilities management. information technology – whatever your role might be – business people are always taking themselves too seriously – or are taken too seriously by others. All that ends here.

It’s a place where respectful irrevernce and self-deprecating humor is the order of the day.
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May 30, 2018

Topic:  A Capitalist, a Socialist, and a Communist walk into a podcast.  No, it’s not the start of a bad joke, just a bad podcast.  Malcolm Cawood, owner of Kyberntica, joins Antlerboy and JP to discuss his ideas behind “systems thinking”.  He certainly will share his fairly well developed sense of his own self-importance.  But, as an ultra-sceptic influenced both by scientific tradition, Greek stoicism, and (and this is key) Aristotle's idea of rhetoric, he is totally subject to an overarching idea of "negotiability".  An interesting journey of reconciliation; how does a person who is hyper-critical of himself, always on the “left” and anti-business, come to own a consulting firm and have clients that include high-finance.  We still don’t know.  Give a listen and let us know if you figure it, and Malcolm, out.

Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies
  Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant, and Chief Executive of the Public Service Transformation Academy.

Guest: Malcolm Cawood About Malcolm:  ●       1978-86: The wannabe academic: degree in English and a PhD in political drama that was never written. ●       1986-1993: The drift into local government, and drift around various education finance jobs. ●       1994-2002: The big change: voluntary redundancy, a 9 month round the world trip, and an MSc in Technical Communication and Human Computer Interaction, followed by happy days as a Technical Communicator. ●       2002-2013: Move into a consultancy role with Casewise, which developed processing modeling and enterprise architecture tools ●        2014 - present: freelance contractor, mainly with BG Group's enterprise architecture team, and for the last three years, with a global bank's Risk function Links Kybernetica