19. Enabling Environments for Peak Performance in Work and Life, with Eddy Annys

Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement

My guest this week is Eddy Annys, who is Managing Director of Randstad Belgium and a former Olympic athlete. Listen to Eddy talk about:

• His experience as a world class high jumper, and how peak performance by world class athletes is only possible by having an enabling system
• Why ensuring that everyone has an opportunity for meaningful work remains a challenge – even in times and places of economic prosperity
• How we need to challenge historical stereotypes of difference – such as gender and ethnicity – that stand in the way of diversity and inclusion
• Why resilience has become a key competence as the world gets more fast-paced and complex – and how this links to the Good Work Goals
• How cobots (collaborative human-robot interfaces) are a new, hopeful trend – and why job automation is not necessarily to be feared

Key links
Eddy Annys (LinkedIn)
Randstad (website)
Sustainability@Work (report)
Behind the Veil (poem)
AMS Sustainable Transformation (website)
Thriving (book)
Wayne Visser (website)
Wayne Visser (LinkedIn)