The genesis of high performing teams is everyone owning what they know and don’t know
Better World Leaders, Episode 15
Welcome to Episode 15 of Better World Leaders, our wonderful exploration of the great potential of human creativity to overcome significant obstacles, harness intuition and follow purpose to make a better world for all. In this fascinating conversation we are joined by Andrew Hayim de Vries, founder and inventor of the Subpod composting system.
Andrew is an ecologically focused Australian artist and designer, with a host of professional works spanning more than 35 years. He is a creator, an inventor, and a deeply resilient and persistent figure. He is driven by a passion for recycling and up-cycling, composting and vermi-culture. The health of the environment calls for the need for re-education and hands-on participation, in which he plays his part.
Andrew founded Compost Central Byron Bay as an education, design and development facility to cultivate successful composting. There equip people with the knowledge and confidence to convert organic waste into healthy soil or food production.
Over the past years Andrew has been perfecting the ‘Subpod’ in-ground composting system, which now has a patent pending and is a run-away success following it’s kickstarter launch. When installed, the module (whether in family home, schools, cafes, prisons, refugee and displacement centres, mining towns and other businesses) takes organic kitchen waste and converts it into healthy soil and the means to feed organics food to rural and urban populated communities.
Key messages from this episode;
- That we need to allow more room for latitude in personal development and career paths, and this latitude will lead to the creation of pathways for discovery, creativity and invention.
- If you want to make things better, focus on the weakest link in any system.
- Consider what you can do to build, create and share by finding those who feel the same way you do about the world
- If you want to make the world better, start with the internal discovery of purpose
- Ask yourself, can you get to a point of knowing what you know, and profoundly acknowledging what you don’t know?
- If you can do this, along with your team – this is the genesis of high performance teams, when everyone owns what they know and what they don’t.
Get in touch with Andrew via any of these points of contact;
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayimdevries/
Additional resources mentioned in our conversation.
- Andrew’s projects https://www.hayimdevries.com/Projects
- Subpod’s main site
Follow Subpod and Compost Central on Instagram here – https://www.instagram.com/thesubpod/?hl=en
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