Episode-70; Travels, Robots, Creativity, Team Effectiveness, And Bier (of Course)

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Video Version https vimeo com 672105600 About the Podcast It s another Open Mic Night at The Outliers Inn and JP and Mule are happy to welcome our guest and have a casual chat with whatever might be on their minds and ours JP starts off with sharing a return trip from Newark back to Frankfurt which was quite like the movie planes trains and automobiles Having to reschedule the flight several times between having family visiting Poland the Florida of Europe where the COVID restrictions were always unofficially optional at best and having nobody there to greet me when I arrived to a snowstorm pushing it out a day to having said family catch COVID in Poland all was okay but I sheltered in place to moving the flight closer by a day to avoid yet another snowstorm it was a VUCA trip that required OODA Loops to engage Mule shares an update with the Robotics Competition including insights on the scoring requirements in the competition much like scoring in gymnastics or figure skating where the robot has to complete certain tasks And also how his coaching changes as the students go from being Freshmen to Seniors from more nurturing to more demanding Our first guest is Stephane who joins us from France And JP shares and shows that he is indulging in a Gummy Bier a heavy beer coming in at 9 brewed by a regular at The Outliers Inn Don and his son Dom JP promised to bring a bottle back to Germany and send it to Stephane Perhaps we will have the opportunity to share a real bier virtually on a future get together at The Outliers Inn Stephane also gives us an update on his general goings-on and the latest COVID restrictions in France which are still rather strict but there are talks of loosening Stephane then gets serious and starts to discuss creativity and innovation and the challenges of how to remain creative when working remote And Sam rejoins us from Sweden He shares that he likes bier and would also like to participate in tasting the Gummy Bier Sam is interested in the topics of creativity and innovation introduced by Stephane and carries on with the subject expanding the conversation to address and discuss the team dynamics or lack thereof of people working remotely but still being part of a team How do we effectively communicate and collaborate How do we remain aligned So pull up a stool pour yourself a legal beverage and smoke em if you got em Good stuff and we will do a deeper dive in our next episode Click here to visit this podcast episode