Welcome
Unscripted podcast musings on business life, leadership, creativity, transformation
An unusual podcast with
David Ayling-Smith and Peter Taylor
Who are we?
David Ayling-Smith
The Squid of Despair
The Squid of Despair
An experienced executive with twenty five years experience of selling, delivering and managing consultancy, support and maintenance operations in the Enterprise Software industry.
Has held various leadership positions with a track record of developing strategies that deliver profitable revenue growth and scalable business improvement. Ha
An experienced executive with twenty five years experience of selling, delivering and managing consultancy, support and maintenance operations in the Enterprise Software industry.
Has held various leadership positions with a track record of developing strategies that deliver profitable revenue growth and scalable business improvement. Having particular experience with acquisitions and business transformations David (aka DAS) is a strong communicator and people focused executive with a history of building successful teams and coaching individual key players.
The Squid of Despair
The Squid of Despair
The Squid of Despair
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 relat
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.
Peter Taylor
The Squid of Despair
Peter Taylor
Keynote speaker with 500 presentations around the world, author of 'The Lazy Project Manager' and 29 other books, and project management leader for a billion dollar HCM organization.
Over thirty years of combined expertise in strategic project planning and change leadership, with a proven track record of leading complex enterprise-wide b
Keynote speaker with 500 presentations around the world, author of 'The Lazy Project Manager' and 29 other books, and project management leader for a billion dollar HCM organization.
Over thirty years of combined expertise in strategic project planning and change leadership, with a proven track record of leading complex enterprise-wide business transformational initiatives that required innovative and creative thinking.
All round 'corporate jester' who believes on productive laziness and having fun.