The Innovation Show
Episodes
Why We Mind Wander - Mark Solms
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The aim of mind-wandering, odd as it might sound, is to improve the efficiency of your generative model. As ordained by the Free Energy Principle, a m...
Dr Robert Hogan - Leadership, Humility and Competition
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We caught up with Dr Robert Hogan during his 2023 worldwide tour. Robert challenged decades of academic tradition to demonstrate personality's impact ...
David Cutler - The GAME of Innovation
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's book offers a comprehensive approach to extraordinary problem-solving. Conceived by a super-creative quartet of top-tier business consultants,...
Charles Conn - The Imperfectionists
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's book draws on a decade of research and 50 case studies to present six mindsets that help business leaders and nonprofit equivalents be more co...
Sven Smit - Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest discovered that over 10 years, just 1 in 12 companies managed to jump from the middle tier of corporate performance—where 60% of compa...
Marty Cagan - Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is it about the top tech product companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and Tesla that enables their record of consistent innovation? ...
Bill Aulet - Disciplined Entrepreneurship
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Disciplined Entrepreneurship will change the way you think about starting a company. Many believe that entrepreneurship cannot be taught, but great en...
Bob Moesta - Learning to Build
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Does this sound familiar? * Are you always one prototype away from a solution but never seem to get there? * Do you spend most of your time fixing...
Derek van Bever - Stall Points
14 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Very few large companies manage to avoid stalls in revenue growth. These stalls are not attributable to the natural business cycle. Our guest's carefu...
Karen Dillon - The Microstress Effect
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
C.S. Lewis once said, "Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance. the ...
Aidan McCullen - Here Be Dragons on (The Disruptive Voice)
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is my guest appearance on The Disruptive Voice Podcast. Exploring the theories of disruptive innovation across a broad set of industries and circ...
Sarah Stein Greenberg - Creative Acts For Curious People
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's book offers over eighty assignments, countless ideas, and memorable stories collected throughout The Stanford d.school's decade-plus history. ...
Ambidextrous Leadership - TJ Rodgers and Charles O'Reilly III
29 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Chapter 5 of Tushman and O'Reilly's "Lead and Disrupt", the authors share how Cypress Semiconductor used a similar venture funding model, complete ...
The Corporate Explorer in The Field - Balaji Bondili and Andrew Binns
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Chapter 5 of the Corporate Explorer, Binns, Tushman, and O'Reilly share how a Corporate Explorer created a new business inside the consulting and a...
Andrew Binns - The Corporate Explorer
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There is no formula for immunity to disruption. Invincibility is an illusion. However, one factor explains why some succeed at corporate venture build...
Charles O'Reilly III and Michael L. Tushman - Lead and Disrupt
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do successful firms find it so difficult to adapt in the face of change – to innovate? In the past ten years, the importance of this question ha...
Charles O'Reilly III - Winning Through Innovation Part 2
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of our Tushman and O'Reilly series, Charles O'Reilly III explores the importance of cultural alignment in encouraging change. We focus on th...
Winning Through Part 1 Innovation with Michael Tushman
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In part 1 of our Tushman and O'Reilly series, Michael Tushman examines how leadership, culture, and organizational architectures can be both critical ...
Kim B. Clark - The Interaction of Design Hierarchies and Market Concepts in Technological Evolution
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is an American scholar, educator, and religious leader who has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints s...
Efosa Ojomo - The Prosperity Paradox
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Global poverty is one of the world's most vexing problems. For decades, we've assumed smart, well-intentioned people will eventually be able to change...
Derek van Bever - The Capitalist's Dilemma
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Like an old machine emitting a new and troubling sound that even the best mechanics can't diagnose, the world economy continues its halting recovery f...
Bob Moesta - Jobs To Be Done
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As legendary Harvard Business School professor Theodore Levitt said, "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!" M...
Taddy Hall- Competing Against Luck
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's book is a book about progress. Yes, it's a book about innovation—and how to get better at it. But at its core, this book is about the stru...
Karen Dillon - Part 2: How Will You Measure Your Life?
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest was the Harvard Business Review editor until 2011, when today's book changed her life. She graduated from Cornell University and Northwester...
Karen Dillon - How Will You Measure Your Life?
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest was the Harvard Business Review editor until 2011, when today's book changed her life. She graduated from Cornell University and Northwester...
Hal Gregersen - The Innovator's DNA
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The genesis of today's book centred on a question posed years ago to "disruptive technologies" coauthor Clayton Christensen: where do disruptive busin...
Mark W. Johnson - Reinventing Your Business Model
05 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
More than a decade ago, Mark Johnson, SAP's Henning Kagermann, and Clayton Christensen hashed out the principles of business model reinvention in the ...
Michael B Horn. - Disrupting Class
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Disrupting Class is an unsettling title for a book about the schooling process. The title conveys multiple meanings. The principal message is that dis...
Scott D. Anthony - Seeing What's Next
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Some essential lessons in "Seeing What's Next" relate to disruptive innovations. Four critical lessons are: 1. Disruption is a process, not an event...
Michael E. Raynor - The Innovator's Solution
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Innovator's Dilemma summarised a theory that explains how, under certain circumstances, the mechanism of profit-maximising resource allocation cau...
Paul Carlile - The Cycles of Theory Building
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The paper I wanted to share today aims to provide a common language about the research process that helps management scholars spend less time defendin...
Ron Adner - Asymmetric Motivation and Skills
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest's award-winning research introduces a new perspective on value creation and competition when industry boundaries break down in the wake of e...
Clark G. Gilbert on Dual Transformation
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2003, media companies and newspapers were in free fall, when American newspapers earned only a tiny percentage of revenue from digital. The Dese...
Discovery-Driven Planning with Rita Gunther McGrath The Clayton Christensen Tribute
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We covered the Innovator's Dilemma with Matthew Christensen in the first part of this series, but we did not cover Chapter 7 of the Innovator's Dilemm...
Joseph L. Bower - Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of our series to honour the work, life and theories of Clayton Christensen, Joseph Bower unpacks that famous HBR article, "Disruptive Techno...
The Innovator's Dilemma with Matthew Christensen
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The logical, competent decisions of management that are critical to the success of their companies are also the reasons why they lose their positions ...
The Brain-Friendly Workplace with Friederike Fabritius
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's book takes a fresh perspective on what it takes for people to flourish in the workplace. Our guest suggests that when we focus on neurodiversi...
The Language Game - Nick Chater and Morten H. Christiansen
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of language is the story of humanity; the new understanding of language that our guests outline in this book radically revises our conceptio...
The Exploit-Explore Continuum with Alex Osterwalder
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Senior leaders often want to know how they can build an environment to allow innovation to thrive. In order to do that, they first need to realise tha...
Everything Is a Story - Martin Grunburg
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a cognitive device, STORY is so woven into our language and thought process that it is inextricable. Since thought is at the heart of one's life ex...
The Banking Reinvention Quadrant with Paolo Sironi
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is a pleasure to welcome back the author of "Banks and Fintech on Platform Economies: Contextual and Conscious Banking " Paolo Sironi, welcome to t...
MOJO Meetings and Wreckoon - Paul Cobban
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Co-author of "Eat Sleep Innovate", Paul Cobban, shares the importance of reframing your competitive set and the concept of MOJO Meetings and Wreckoon....
Netflix Blockbuster and The Innovators Dilemma with Matt Christensen
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The work of Clayton Christensen changed my worldview and, ultimately, my life. I have been lining up all his co-authors to celebrate his life and shar...
Nature of Work: The New Story of Work for a Living Age
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While the mechanistic work mindset has spurred huge growth and riches for many, it's an approach that has masked a fundamental truth: Rather than a ma...
Surveillance States with Barry O'Sullivan
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), along with six academics working in the area of artificial intelligence and data privacy, wrote an open ...
Jayshree Seth - The 6 Most Common Innovation ERRORS!
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by 3M's first-ever Chief Science Advocate with 76 patents to her name. She is the author of The Heart of Science series of books, with a...
Fun, Fear and Focus with Friederike Fabritius
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Friederike Fabritius, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Brain-Friendly Workplace: Why Talented People Quit and How to Get...
Signals with Jeff Desjardins
27 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's book explores the 27 most important trends shaping the future of our global economy. This visually striking book draws on the oceans of data w...
The Fintech Book with Susanne Chishti
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Fintech Book is your primary guide to the financial technology revolution, and the disruption, innovation and opportunity therein. Written by prom...
The Scheherazade Method: Change a Person's Mind
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time, the Persian king of all kings, Shahryār, beheaded his wife after discovering she was unfaithful. Overcome with rage, the monarch re...
The End of Meta/Facebook: Lying as a business model with Rita McGrath
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The End of Meta/Facebook: Lying as a business model with Rita McGrath
TEASER: The Importance of Play with Mark Solms
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How does the mind connect to the body? Why does it feel like something to be us? Our guest is one of the boldest thinkers in neuroscience and solving ...
Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away with Annie Duke
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Business leaders, with millions of dollars down the drain, struggle to abandon a new app or product that just isn't working. Governments, caught in a ...
Is Agenda Theatre Ruining Your Meetings? with Dr Ashley Whillans
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While you might assume that detailed agendas improve your meetings, they may have exactly the opposite effect. This is because many employees unwittin...
Don't Let Hierarchy Stifle Innovation with Timothy R. Clark
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation Byte: Don't Let Hierarchy Stifle Innovation with Timothy R. Clark Much of the know-how required for innovation comes from the bottom of the...
Coffee and the Brain with Helena Boschi
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The first in our new series called Brain Bytes where we pose one question about the brain to Dr Helena Boschi, the author of Why We Do What We Do
Supertrends Part 2 with Lars Tvede
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of Supertrends Part 2 with Lars Tvede. These are turbulent times, and we all need to be ready for what's coming if we hope to thrive. This b...
Banks and Fintech on Platform Economies with Paolo Sironi
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's book is a must-read for CEOs, business leaders, regulators, fintech entrepreneurs, wealth managers, behavioural finance researchers and profes...
Supertrends Part 1 with Lars Tvede
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
These are turbulent times, and we all need to be ready for what's coming if we hope to thrive. This book addresses what we can expect in the coming de...
Top 10 Innovation Shortcuts Company Leaders Should Avoid with Tendayi Viki
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most leaders know Innovation and Creativity are important for corporate survival, but this desire for Innovation often creates a new problem, When fac...
Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why with Simon LeVay
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since our guest has written today's book, recent studies strengthen the idea that gay people differ from straight people in more than the direction of...
Rita McGrath: What Case Studies Get Wrong
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest on today's Innovation Byte is the brilliant author, speaker, consultant, founder of Valize and Professor with Columbia Business School Rita ...
Hate and the Brain with Professor Matt Williams
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dan...
Algorithms of Hate with Matthew Williams
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are our brains wired to hate? Is social media to blame for an increase in hateful abuse? With hate on the rise, what can we do to turn the tide? Drawi...
Five Fatal Habits of Innovation with Geoff Marlow
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Five Fatal Habits: Why most organisations fail at innovation and agility with Geoff Marlow Find the pdf here: https://www.geoffmarlow.com/resource...
The Science of Hate with Matthew Williams
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are our brains wired to hate? Is social media to blame for an increase in hateful abuse? What can we do with hate on the rise to turn the tide? Drawin...
What To Do if Someone Gaslights You at Work with Art Markman
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the workplace, gaslighting often happens when someone is trying to change beliefs about who should get the credit or blame for a particular project...
The Female Prescription for Innovation with Fabienne Jacquet
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode explores innovation from different perspectives: historical, scientific, sociological, cultural and practical — all through the femi...
Getting On Board with the Board - David Fubini
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hidden Truths Finale: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told with David Fubini 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:36 Getting on Board with the Board 00:04:44...
Hidden Truths Part 3 with David Fubini
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Courses are taught in MBA and executive development programs that provide a lot of information about the job. Direct reports and teams also observe le...
From Reopen to Reinvent with Michael Horn
18 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today's knowledge economy that prizes intellectual capital—where we need all individuals to build passions and develop their full human potential...
Creativity and the Brain with Helena Boschi
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Topics we cover: 00:01:18 The Imagination Network in the Brain 00:03:34 Creativity is about Inhibition as well as activation 00:05:48 Brainstorming 0...
Helena Boschi - Biases and the Brain
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome back Helena Boschi, the author of "Why We Do What We Do Understanding our brain to get the best out of ourselves and others" Here are our t...
Helena Boschi - Why We Do What We Do Part 1
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The brain is the basis of everything we do: how we behave, communicate, feel, remember, pay attention, create, influence, and decide. Today's book com...
Anna Lembke - Dopamine Nation Part 1
10 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's book aims to unpack the neuroscience of reward and, in so doing, enable us to find a better, healthier balance between pleasure and pain. But ...
Anna Lembke - Dopamine Nation Part 2
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's a dopamine hit to welcome back Dr Anna Lembke, the author of "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence". 00:00:00 Sponsor Messag...
David Fubini - Hidden Truths Part 2
04 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Hidden Truths, David Fubini delivers is that awareness of the critical capabilities and issues that come with the territory - capabilities and issu...
Hidden Truths with David Fubini Part 1
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode provides practical knowledge that will not only help leaders do their jobs better, but assist boards, HR, consultants, and others in w...
Joan C. Williams - Bias Interrupted Part 2
27 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that...
Bias Interrupted with Joan C. Williams
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption th...
The Tough Stuff Live with Cody Royle
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's you. As the speed of change in elite sports has increased, the support infrastructure around head coaches has not kept up. This has left many coa...
Change: How to Make Big Things Happen with Damon Centola
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the spread of COVID-19 to the rise of political polarisation, from implicit bias to genetically modified food, from NASA to Netflix - it's time t...
Jack Lewis - Sort Your Brain Out Part 2
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that we're capable of more than what we're already accomplishing. But what if we discovered the tools we need to get the most out of our...
Sort Your Brain Out Part 1 with Jack Lewis
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that we're capable of more than what we're already accomplishing. But what if we discovered the tools we need to get the most out of our...
Bank 4.0 with Brett King
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When we talk about a Bank 4.0 it is good to establish both a timeline and a definition for clarity: BANK1.0: Historical, traditional banking centred a...
The Human Element with David Schonthal
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's book is for anyone who wants to introduce a new idea or innovation into the world. Most marketers, innovators, executives, activists, or anyon...
Framers Part 3 with Kenneth Cukier
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Framing is a cognitive muscle we can strengthen to improve our lives, work and future. Today's book shows us how." We heartily welcome back the author...
Framers Part 2 with Kenneth Cukier
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Framing is a cognitive muscle we can strengthen to improve our lives, work and future. Today's book shows us how." We welcome the author of Framers: M...
VISA founder Dee Hock Tribute R.I.P.
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
52 years ago, our guest foresaw and implemented the foundations for the world's first trillion-dollar organization. Back then, Visa was little more th...
Byron Reese ACT III of Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are reasons we are the way we are; we are optimized for other purposes, not the least of which is thinking in stories not logic. So we did somet...
Framers with Kenneth Cukier: Make Better Decisions In The Age of Big Data
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're often told that humans make bad decisions and that more data is better. But this is backwards: people are good at decisions precisely because we...
The Rise of Superman with Steven Kotler
23 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's book is about the impossible, but it starts with the invisible. Over the four decades, an unlikely collection of men and women have pushed...
The Matter With Things Part 3 with Iain McGilchrist
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is a pleasure to welcome back the author of "The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World", Iain McGilchrist In...
Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think Act II with Byron Reese
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we focus on ACT II of Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future and Shape It with Byron Reese Act II is set In 1...
The Matter With Things Part 2 with Iain McGilchrist
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Part I of "The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World" Iain McGilchrist addresses the means to truth, in the ...
Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think Act I with Byron Reese
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Look around. Clearly, we humans are radically different from the other creatures on this planet. But why? Where are the Bronze Age beavers? The Iron A...
The Magic of Sleep Thinking Part 2 with Eric Maisel
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of this extended episode with Eric Maisel Imagine solving problems and increasing creativity while you sleep. Grounded in current brain researc...
The Magic of Sleep Thinking Part 1 with Eric Maisel
03 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine solving problems and increasing creativity while you sleep. Grounded in current brain research, today's book introduces a simple but revolutio...
Iain McGilchrist - The Matter With Things Part 1
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this landmark new book, our guest addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces – ones that have a practical urgency for all ...
Yes to the Mess Part 2: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz with Frank Barrett
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The premise of today's book is that nurturing spontaneity, creativity , experimentation, and dynamic synchronization is no longer an optional approach...