The Squid of Despair
A podcast by David Ayling-Smith and Peter Taylor

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25 Episodes
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Squid #24 - Identity
Published: 2/8/2025 -
Squid #23 - Getting your Mojo back
Published: 5/22/2024 -
Squid #22 - Sisu
Published: 4/17/2024 -
Squid #21 - Personal Branding
Published: 2/28/2024 -
Squid #20 - Balance
Published: 1/20/2024 -
Squid #19 - Uninformed Opinions
Published: 11/29/2023 -
Squid #18 - Resilience
Published: 11/3/2023 -
Squid #17 - The Quiet Voice
Published: 8/30/2023 -
Squid #16 - Artificial Intelligence
Published: 7/21/2023 -
Squid #15 - Time Travel
Published: 6/16/2023 -
Squid #14 - The Challenge of Adoption
Published: 5/10/2023 -
Squid #13 - The Positivity of Hope
Published: 4/6/2023 -
Squid #12 - The Imposter Syndrome
Published: 2/16/2023 -
Squid #11 - Global Thinking
Published: 1/25/2023 -
Squid #10 - A Look Back at 2022
Published: 12/23/2022 -
Squid #9 - Competition - Does the Winner Take it All?
Published: 12/15/2022 -
Squid #8 - Optimism - The Argument For and Against
Published: 11/25/2022 -
Squid #7 - Thinking Inside and Outside the Box
Published: 10/21/2022 -
Squid #6 - Strategy and the road to Successful Transformation
Published: 9/23/2022 -
Squid #5 - The Building of a Great Team
Published: 8/20/2022
Unscripted musings on business life, leadership, creativity, transformation and all the myriad of other work-life events that get in the way of a good night's sleep. The Squid of Despair is a conceptual summation of what can go wrong, and often does, with mind-mapping or other creative techniques. Born out of an idea for a book back in 2010, David and Peter have now made this mythical beast rise once again, phoenix like (from under the ocean waves, so a bit soggy probably), to explore all matters relating to 'business life, leadership, creativity, transformation and all the myriad of other work-life events that get in the way of a good night’s sleep' in the form of an unusual podcast