#29 - Damian Scanlon - MBAs, Leadership and an Interesting Life

Real People, With Jason Dunstone - Consumer Insights, Market Research, Customers, Design Thinking and More

Today we are joined by Damian Scanlon, Director of the MBA program at the University of Adelaide, one of the top Australian MBA's according to the Financial Review's BOSS Magazine and other rankings. We go on a wonderful journey through Damian's most eclectic life and discuss his learnings on what makes a strong leader and business, and living interesting life. Damian shares lessons from his career highlights, including builder's labourer, tuna fisherman, restaurant manager, graduate economist, CEO, Finance Director, COO and co-owner. Working in sectors as diverse as minerals processing, aquaculture and aviation. And, lessons as to what makes a good job and when to move on. We discuss corporate culture and successful business, and how it is critical leaders know if they have the aptitude and appetite for growth or maintaining a business. Damian shares his traveling adventures, including buying a one way ticket to London as a young lad, travelling through Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and nearly dying from Typhoid in India. Thankfully Damian survived to live and share his story. Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player. Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave. Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en Send Jason an email - [e-mail] Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/ Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/ Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/