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

Published: May 5, 2019, 10:43 a.m.

b"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.\\n\\nDamian 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.\\n\\nWe 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.\\n\\nDamian 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.\\n\\nThankfully Damian survived to live and share his story.\\n\\nReal 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. \\n\\nJason 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.\\n\\nCheck out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople\\nConnect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en\\nSend Jason an email - jason@squareholes.com Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/\\nFind out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/\\nProduced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/"