right this may surprise you but did you
know that you are actually slightly less
human than you think you are for every
one human cell you have you have between
one and ten bacterial cells each one of
us has inners and honors a hundred
trillion microorganisms
that’s bacteria viruses and fungi but
make up our microbiome or our bacterial
cells now they sounds a little gross but
actually it’s amazing because we live in
a bacterial world where every second of
every day we are surrounded by trillions
of bacteria we have evolved alongside
them and in fact they have become a
crucial part of how we function as
humans if you’re so important today to
your overall health and well-being but
what you have in your guts as you sit
here today will influence your ability
to affect the change that we are talking
about now our brains control our body
and steer both our bodies and our lives
in the direction that we choose but your
brains are actually heavily influenced
by the microbes that you carry in your
gut now we know a lot of this because
scientists have done experiments with
bacteria free mice so these are mice
that they have bred to have no bacteria
in or on them if you were to take just
the gut bacteria for in a very obese
Mouse and put it into our bacteria free
Mouse with no change in diet and with no
change in exercise they will become fat
so it’s not what they’re eating and it’s
not what they’re doing it’s what their
gut bacteria is doing that matters to
our mouse if you were to take the gut
bacteria from a very anxious Mouse and
put that into our bacteria free Mouse
with nothing in their environment to
frighten them
they will display anxious behaviors so
we see a very strong correlation between
the health of your gut bacteria and the
health and well-being of the human
attached to that gut now fascinating
though this ease and it is what has it
got to do with business well it turns
out that you can learn an awful lot
about how a healthy business works by
understanding how a healthy microbiome
works now the first thing you need to
know
about a healthy microbiome is that it
needs to be diverse a healthy microbiome
has about a thousand species in it each
working in their own role in the giant
ecosystem that is us as a human being
and what we see is that when one species
starts to dominate when one takes over
when it puts a gut bacteria into
imbalance or dysbiosis that has been
linked to a large number of not just
physical illnesses but also mental
health problems in the human attached to
that gut now what’s worrying is it’s not
business as usual in our guts in the
last few decades we have seen in the
Western world on a Western diet a 30%
decrease in the diversity of the
bacteria that we hold in our gut and
that coincides with a 40% increase in
non communicable diseases now those are
diseases that you can’t catch things
like cancer things like obesity things
like diabetes so it turns out a lack of
diversity is making a Zil transfer this
to your business what is the makeup of
your business now when we talk about
diversity in the workplace everybody
thinks about nationality and that is
important but what about background
Outlook age sexuality gender gender is
an interesting one a 2014 study found
that when there were more women in
senior roles corporate profitability
rose and another study from the same
year found that when you had better
gender representation at board level it
brought these new perspectives and ideas
to the table which allowed businesses to
access tomorrow’s business today
diversity works now just for a second I
would like to turn the clock back 50
years to when this new town was
established it would have been
unimaginable then how the world would
change how connected we would become how
international business would be how the
diversity of the nation would change so
radically and how quickly all these
changes would impact business the world
has changed
on the outside your client base has
changed on the outside and you cannot
sell to a client and you cannot serve a
client and you cannot meet their needs
if you do not understand their needs so
we need to bring all of these outlooks
and backgrounds on board but with a
meaningful voice and that’s the
important part because diversity doesn’t
work when it’s just tokenism diversity
works when it extends your business
knowledge and your business experience
increasingly across the world we are
seeing fewer businesses relying on the
old school to run business as it has
always been run and increasing numbers
of highly successful businesses run by
CEOs who are under age 30 they are
living the technological and lifestyle
changes that enable them to steer their
business in the direction that’s the
next generation wants if you extend the
diversity of your business if you bring
all these ideas on your business will
grow if you retain relevance you will
retain your place in the future now the
next thing that you need to know about
gut bacteria is that for your gut
bacteria to thrive it needs to be in a
healthy environment I am sorry to break
it to you but your gut bike your healthy
gut bacteria cannot survive on a diet of
junk food and stress and neither can
your workplace so here is a question for
you how healthy is your work environment
how healthy is your business absenteeism
stress high staff turnover cost your
business recruitment Retraining loss of
business knowledge loss of business
experience now business is very rarely
offer a job for life these days but also
increasingly a younger generation is
less willing to settle for a life
governed by unsatisfactory work if
they’re not satisfied they will leave
and if your staff see that the turnover
in your company is high that the door in
and out of your firm has a revolving one
they will all
always have their eye on the exit route
and not on your business valuing your
staff engaging with your staff and
investing in your staff leads to a
happier and a healthier workplace and if
your workplace is happier and healthier
they will commit to your firm and your
business will do better your staff are
not just units they are part of your
business body take care of them now do
you remember our poor stress Mouse the
mouse that have the GUP the stress gut
bacteria and with nothing in its
environment to make it stressed was
displaying anxious behaviors what this
shows us that what is happening in the
gut has an effect on mental health you
know this when your head is very
stressed your gut feels very tight you
could not believe how tight my gut felt
as I stood down there waiting to come up
here so what happening in your head
affects your guts health but equally if
a gut health is out of balance if your
gut bacteria is in dysbiosis it is a
known trigger for mental health
disorders it’s the same in business you
know it if as a manager your staff are
not performing as well or highly
stressed or high rates of absenteeism
that is a nightmare that is very
stressful but equally if your managers
are behaving in an unhealthy manner
everything underneath them will become
stressed and stress makes people ill as
a leader you need to look is there a hot
spot in your business where there are
very high levels of absenteeism stress
and high staff turnover because if there
is that suggests to you that something
in that business environment is making
your staff unwell that’s not a problem
with your staff that’s a problem with
the environment that they are in so you
need to check with your manager your
department head your team leader but
equally you need to check your manager
your department leader your head of
department are they the problem
are they the dominant species
that makes everybody ill we call this
bi-directional exchange the gut-brain
axis
if your head is stressed your body will
suffer but if your body is stressed your
head will suffer and you can see it in
business so if as a leader you spot that
hot spot you need to talk to your staff
you need to listen to your staff and you
need to do something about it
loyalty dedication and commitment are
the payoff that you get for good
leadership and a firm dedicated to a
happier healthier workplace now as you
sit here today the microbes in your gut
are busying themselves if you are hungry
they will be pestering your brain if you
just ate too many pastries they will be
making you possibly a little tired and a
little bit distracted but what we put in
our guts every day affects our ability
to implement the changes that we want to
see they will keep you healthy as an
individual scientists are really working
to understand the microbiome and
particularly to fix this deficiency this
this lack of diversity that we’re seeing
now lots of companies have left on the
bandwagon and will sell you a probiotic
drink to fix your gut but guts don’t
work that way and neither do businesses
there is very rarely one new magic IT
solution or new work process that is
going to transform your business
overnight you need to take care of your
entire business health now on a personal
note for your personal health may I
suggest that you take care of your gut
bacteria but in business for a healthy
business take care of your business gut
because your business health depends on it
know that you are actually slightly less
human than you think you are for every
one human cell you have you have between
one and ten bacterial cells each one of
us has inners and honors a hundred
trillion microorganisms
that’s bacteria viruses and fungi but
make up our microbiome or our bacterial
cells now they sounds a little gross but
actually it’s amazing because we live in
a bacterial world where every second of
every day we are surrounded by trillions
of bacteria we have evolved alongside
them and in fact they have become a
crucial part of how we function as
humans if you’re so important today to
your overall health and well-being but
what you have in your guts as you sit
here today will influence your ability
to affect the change that we are talking
about now our brains control our body
and steer both our bodies and our lives
in the direction that we choose but your
brains are actually heavily influenced
by the microbes that you carry in your
gut now we know a lot of this because
scientists have done experiments with
bacteria free mice so these are mice
that they have bred to have no bacteria
in or on them if you were to take just
the gut bacteria for in a very obese
Mouse and put it into our bacteria free
Mouse with no change in diet and with no
change in exercise they will become fat
so it’s not what they’re eating and it’s
not what they’re doing it’s what their
gut bacteria is doing that matters to
our mouse if you were to take the gut
bacteria from a very anxious Mouse and
put that into our bacteria free Mouse
with nothing in their environment to
frighten them
they will display anxious behaviors so
we see a very strong correlation between
the health of your gut bacteria and the
health and well-being of the human
attached to that gut now fascinating
though this ease and it is what has it
got to do with business well it turns
out that you can learn an awful lot
about how a healthy business works by
understanding how a healthy microbiome
works now the first thing you need to
know
about a healthy microbiome is that it
needs to be diverse a healthy microbiome
has about a thousand species in it each
working in their own role in the giant
ecosystem that is us as a human being
and what we see is that when one species
starts to dominate when one takes over
when it puts a gut bacteria into
imbalance or dysbiosis that has been
linked to a large number of not just
physical illnesses but also mental
health problems in the human attached to
that gut now what’s worrying is it’s not
business as usual in our guts in the
last few decades we have seen in the
Western world on a Western diet a 30%
decrease in the diversity of the
bacteria that we hold in our gut and
that coincides with a 40% increase in
non communicable diseases now those are
diseases that you can’t catch things
like cancer things like obesity things
like diabetes so it turns out a lack of
diversity is making a Zil transfer this
to your business what is the makeup of
your business now when we talk about
diversity in the workplace everybody
thinks about nationality and that is
important but what about background
Outlook age sexuality gender gender is
an interesting one a 2014 study found
that when there were more women in
senior roles corporate profitability
rose and another study from the same
year found that when you had better
gender representation at board level it
brought these new perspectives and ideas
to the table which allowed businesses to
access tomorrow’s business today
diversity works now just for a second I
would like to turn the clock back 50
years to when this new town was
established it would have been
unimaginable then how the world would
change how connected we would become how
international business would be how the
diversity of the nation would change so
radically and how quickly all these
changes would impact business the world
has changed
on the outside your client base has
changed on the outside and you cannot
sell to a client and you cannot serve a
client and you cannot meet their needs
if you do not understand their needs so
we need to bring all of these outlooks
and backgrounds on board but with a
meaningful voice and that’s the
important part because diversity doesn’t
work when it’s just tokenism diversity
works when it extends your business
knowledge and your business experience
increasingly across the world we are
seeing fewer businesses relying on the
old school to run business as it has
always been run and increasing numbers
of highly successful businesses run by
CEOs who are under age 30 they are
living the technological and lifestyle
changes that enable them to steer their
business in the direction that’s the
next generation wants if you extend the
diversity of your business if you bring
all these ideas on your business will
grow if you retain relevance you will
retain your place in the future now the
next thing that you need to know about
gut bacteria is that for your gut
bacteria to thrive it needs to be in a
healthy environment I am sorry to break
it to you but your gut bike your healthy
gut bacteria cannot survive on a diet of
junk food and stress and neither can
your workplace so here is a question for
you how healthy is your work environment
how healthy is your business absenteeism
stress high staff turnover cost your
business recruitment Retraining loss of
business knowledge loss of business
experience now business is very rarely
offer a job for life these days but also
increasingly a younger generation is
less willing to settle for a life
governed by unsatisfactory work if
they’re not satisfied they will leave
and if your staff see that the turnover
in your company is high that the door in
and out of your firm has a revolving one
they will all
always have their eye on the exit route
and not on your business valuing your
staff engaging with your staff and
investing in your staff leads to a
happier and a healthier workplace and if
your workplace is happier and healthier
they will commit to your firm and your
business will do better your staff are
not just units they are part of your
business body take care of them now do
you remember our poor stress Mouse the
mouse that have the GUP the stress gut
bacteria and with nothing in its
environment to make it stressed was
displaying anxious behaviors what this
shows us that what is happening in the
gut has an effect on mental health you
know this when your head is very
stressed your gut feels very tight you
could not believe how tight my gut felt
as I stood down there waiting to come up
here so what happening in your head
affects your guts health but equally if
a gut health is out of balance if your
gut bacteria is in dysbiosis it is a
known trigger for mental health
disorders it’s the same in business you
know it if as a manager your staff are
not performing as well or highly
stressed or high rates of absenteeism
that is a nightmare that is very
stressful but equally if your managers
are behaving in an unhealthy manner
everything underneath them will become
stressed and stress makes people ill as
a leader you need to look is there a hot
spot in your business where there are
very high levels of absenteeism stress
and high staff turnover because if there
is that suggests to you that something
in that business environment is making
your staff unwell that’s not a problem
with your staff that’s a problem with
the environment that they are in so you
need to check with your manager your
department head your team leader but
equally you need to check your manager
your department leader your head of
department are they the problem
are they the dominant species
that makes everybody ill we call this
bi-directional exchange the gut-brain
axis
if your head is stressed your body will
suffer but if your body is stressed your
head will suffer and you can see it in
business so if as a leader you spot that
hot spot you need to talk to your staff
you need to listen to your staff and you
need to do something about it
loyalty dedication and commitment are
the payoff that you get for good
leadership and a firm dedicated to a
happier healthier workplace now as you
sit here today the microbes in your gut
are busying themselves if you are hungry
they will be pestering your brain if you
just ate too many pastries they will be
making you possibly a little tired and a
little bit distracted but what we put in
our guts every day affects our ability
to implement the changes that we want to
see they will keep you healthy as an
individual scientists are really working
to understand the microbiome and
particularly to fix this deficiency this
this lack of diversity that we’re seeing
now lots of companies have left on the
bandwagon and will sell you a probiotic
drink to fix your gut but guts don’t
work that way and neither do businesses
there is very rarely one new magic IT
solution or new work process that is
going to transform your business
overnight you need to take care of your
entire business health now on a personal
note for your personal health may I
suggest that you take care of your gut
bacteria but in business for a healthy
business take care of your business gut
because your business health depends on it
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