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 human performance farther and faster than at any other point in the 150,000-year history of our species. In this evolutionary eyeblink, they have completely redefined the limits of the possible. But here's the stranger part: this unprecedented flowering of human potential has taken place in plain sight, occasionally with millions of people watching–ye...
Jul 23, 2022•54 min•Season 27Ep. 364
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 this episode, we explore intuition, imagination and more. Find Iain here: http://channelmcgilchrist.com
Jul 20, 2022•48 min•Season 27Ep. 363
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 17th century France, the mathematical framework known as 'probability theory' is born—a science for seeing into the future that we used to build the modern world. We welcome back the author of "Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future--and Shape It" friend of the show, Byron Reese. Find Byron here: www.byronreese.com...
Jul 18, 2022•54 min•Season 27Ep. 362
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 sense of the faculties with which we are endowed for this task. He takes these to be: attention, perception, judgment, apprehension, emotional and social intelligence, cognitive intelligence and creativity. In each case, he looks at what either hemisphere contributes to the process. We don't stand a hope of diving into each but I felt we should sha...
Jul 14, 2022•55 min•Season 26Ep. 361
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 Age iguanas? In today's episode, our guest argues that we humans owe our special status to our ability to imagine the future and recall the past, escaping the perpetual present that all other living creatures are trapped in. Envisioning human history as the development of a societal superorganism he names Agora, our guest shows us how this escape en...
Jul 12, 2022•54 min•Season 26Ep. 360
Part 2 of this extended episode with Eric Maisel Imagine solving problems and increasing creativity while you sleep. Grounded in current brain research, today's book introduces a simple but revolutionary program that shows how to do just that by learning to tune into your deepest intuitions. Case studies illustrate the effects of sleep thinking on ordinary individuals, from a failing college student to an engineer with anger management issues. This tool for idea generation and life-purpose clari...
Jul 06, 2022•54 min•Season 25Ep. 359
Imagine solving problems and increasing creativity while you sleep. Grounded in current brain research, today's book introduces a simple but revolutionary program that shows how to do just that by learning to tune into your deepest intuitions. Case studies illustrate the effects of sleep thinking on ordinary individuals, from a failing college student to an engineer with anger management issues. This tool for idea generation and life-purpose clarification offers answers that lead to actions and ...
Jul 03, 2022•52 min•Season 25Ep. 358
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 of us today. Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time? Is the cosmos without purpose or value? Can we really neglect the sacred and divine? In doing so, he argues that we have become enslaved to an account of things dominated by the brain's left hemisphere, one that blinds us to an awe-inspiring reali...
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 25Ep. 357
The premise of today's book is that nurturing spontaneity, creativity , experimentation, and dynamic synchronization is no longer an optional approach to leadership. It's the only approach. The current velocity of change demands nothing less. It demands paying attention to the mental models, the cultural beliefs and values, the practices and structures that support improvisation. We welcome back the author of: "Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz", Frank Barrett. More about ...
Jun 27, 2022•50 min•Season 24Ep. 356
Today's guest has four questions for us…. First, do you truly believe that all men and women are created equal, and do you accept others and welcome them into your society simply because they possess flesh and blood even if their values differ from your own? Second, without bias or discrimination, do you encourage others to learn and grow, and do you support them in that process even when they lack confidence or make mistakes? Third, do you grant others maximum autonomy to contribute in their ow...
Jun 23, 2022•57 min•Season 24Ep. 355
Today's guest has four questions for us…. First, do you truly believe that all men and women are created equal, and do you accept others and welcome them into your society simply because they possess flesh and blood even if their values differ from your own? Second, without bias or discrimination, do you encourage others to learn and grow, and do you support them in that process even when they lack confidence or make mistakes? Third, do you grant others maximum autonomy to contribute in their ow...
Jun 21, 2022•53 min•Season 24Ep. 354
Today's book is designed to bring you simple, sound, and practical tools to awaken your creativity at work—even if you don't think you are creative. Not fluff or theories. No bull or fillers. Our guest draws on a lifetime of success in business to give you real actionable tools that you can use to become more creative. And each chapter brims with businesslike action items on how to make creativity happen at work. Meant to be used as a manual which you can draw upon at the office, in business, or...
Jun 16, 2022•52 min•Season 24Ep. 353
Today's book is designed to bring you simple, sound, and practical tools to awaken your creativity at work—even if you don't think you are creative. Not fluff or theories. No bull or fillers. Our guest draws on a lifetime of success in business to give you real actionable tools that you can use to become more creative. And each chapter brims with businesslike action items on how to make creativity happen at work. Meant to be used as a manual which you can draw upon at the office, in business, or...
Jun 12, 2022•56 min•Season 24Ep. 352
Part 2 of this great episode: Habits may help us to carry out our daily routine but they often cause us trouble, from unhealthy eating and smoking, to poor study skills and work routines. We've all experienced that endless frustration when we try to kick a bad habit. The frustration you have now will soon be over. Our guest is a premier cognitive scientist and draws on all the latest scientific research to help us succeed in beating bad habits. With the help of today's book, not only does he hel...
Jun 08, 2022•51 min•Season 24Ep. 352
Habits may help us to carry out our daily routine but they often cause us trouble, from unhealthy eating and smoking, to poor study skills and work routines. We've all experienced that endless frustration when we try to kick a bad habit. The frustration you have now will soon be over. Our guest is a premier cognitive scientist and draws on all the latest scientific research to help us succeed in beating bad habits. With the help of today's book, not only does he help us to understand just how ha...
Jun 06, 2022•52 min•Season 24Ep. 350
One in ten French people still believe the earth may be flat; One-quarter of Australians think that cavemen and dinosaurs existed at the same time; One in nine Brits think the 9/11 attacks were a US government conspiracy; 15 per cent of Americans believe that the media or government adds secret mind-controlling signals to television transmissions. Our main interest is not niche stupidity or minority belief in conspiracies, but much more general and widespread misperceptions about individual, soc...
Jun 03, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Season 24Ep. 349
Whoop, live in-studio guest in our new studio Choosing Courage LIVE with Jim Detert. Jim is the world's foremost expert on workplace courage, He explains that courage isn't a character trait that only a few possess; it's a virtue developed through practice. We welcome a friend of the Innovation Show and a previous 2-time guest, He is the author of Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work we welcome Jim Detert. More about Jim: https://jimdetert.com
May 31, 2022•31 min•Season 24Ep. 348
How do you cope when faced with complexity and constant change at work? Here's what the world's best leaders and teams do: they improvise. They invent novel responses and take calculated risks without a scripted plan or a safety net that guarantees specific outcomes. They negotiate with each other as they proceed, and they don't dwell on mistakes or stifle each other's ideas. In short, they say "yes to the mess" that is today's hurried, harried, yet enormously innovative and fertile world of wor...
May 26, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 23Ep. 347
For a moment late in 2018, one bitcoin, which physically amounts to a few electrons blipping on a tiny bit of silicon, was worth $20,000—the same as a pound of gold. Libertarian technologists who believed bitcoin would be the foundation of a new world order saw the moment as an apotheosis. Everyone else saw a bubble. Everyone else was right, and the bubble burst. But bitcoin survived, and the battle for its soul rages on. Today's book drops us into the unfolding drama, tracing the rise, fall, an...
May 24, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 22Ep. 346
Our guest's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses. Questions he poses include: Why do organisms and ecosystems scale with size in a remarkably universal and systematic fashion? Is there a maximum size of cities? Of animals and plants? What about companies? Can scale show us how to create a more sustainable future? By applying the rigour of physics to questions of biology, He ...
May 19, 2022•1 hr 53 min•Season 23Ep. 345
Our guest's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses. Questions he poses include: Why do organisms and ecosystems scale with size in a remarkably universal and systematic fashion? Is there a maximum size of cities? Of animals and plants? What about companies? Can scale show us how to create a more sustainable future? By applying the rigour of physics to questions of biology, He ...
May 15, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 23Ep. 344
Our guest's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses. Questions he poses include: Why do organisms and ecosystems scale with size in a remarkably universal and systematic fashion? Is there a maximum size of cities? Of animals and plants? What about companies? Can scale show us how to create a more sustainable future? By applying the rigour of physics to questions of biology, He ...
May 09, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 21Ep. 343
Our guest's books have sold well over one million copies and spent a whole nine months on the New York Times bestseller list! Our guest is a master negotiator and has been successfully negotiating everything from insurance claims to hostage releases to his own son's hair length and hundreds of other matters for over five decades. Ever since coining the term "win-win" in 1963, he has been teaching people the world over how to get what they want in any situation. As a result of his extensive negot...
May 05, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 21Ep. 342
Our guest's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses. Questions he poses include: Why do organisms and ecosystems scale with size in a remarkably universal and systematic fashion? Is there a maximum size of cities? Of animals and plants? What about companies? Can scale show us how to create a more sustainable future? By applying the rigour of physics to questions of biology, he ...
May 02, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Season 21Ep. 341
Today's guest hopes it will leave you seeing, thinking, and feeling differently about how to grow and remain relevant in these transformative times. How to grow yourself, grow those around you, and grow your practice, passion, or company. How to remain relevant by understanding what it takes to make sense and thrive in a world of rapid technological, demographic, and global upheaval. And to do so by questioning much of what business takes for granted: •why data is often not the way forward and w...
Apr 27, 2022•56 min•Season 21Ep. 340
The purpose of today's book is twofold. First, to overthrow this myth that we are "living a period of change." The entire history of civilization is all about change—and, more than that, about technological change. This is what defines us as a species, this is what propels us forward. Change is coming faster and faster, that's for sure—and it will likely accelerate even more. And second, to highlight and explain not only the benefits but also the risks that a tech-driven lifestyle throws at us. ...
Apr 22, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 21Ep. 339
Today's book is about one way in which large corporations can be entrepreneurial: by partnering with external startups. Specifically, it is about key principles and practices that have been distilled from the entrepreneurial actions of managers who helped their corporations engage with startups. To be clear, as our audience knows well by now, opening an innovation lab here and organizing a hackathon there won't make an Impactful difference. This is about substantive programmatic interventions th...
Apr 20, 2022•46 min•Season 21Ep. 338
Today's book is about one way in which large corporations can be entrepreneurial: by partnering with external startups. Specifically, it is about key principles and practices that have been distilled from the entrepreneurial actions of managers who helped their corporations engage with startups. To be clear, as our audience knows well by now, opening an innovation lab here and organizing a hackathon there won't make an Impactful difference. This is about substantive programmatic interventions th...
Apr 19, 2022•51 min•Season 21Ep. 337
Today's book is about one way in which large corporations can be entrepreneurial: by partnering with external startups. Specifically, it is about key principles and practices that have been distilled from the entrepreneurial actions of managers who helped their corporations engage with startups. To be clear, as our audience knows well by now, opening an innovation lab here and organizing a hackathon there won't make an Impactful difference. This is about substantive programmatic interventions th...
Apr 15, 2022•54 min•Season 21Ep. 336
Our guest today delivers a proven roadmap for large corporations collaborating with startups. Drawing on over a decade of international research, he explains the "why," "how," and "where" of corporate-startup partnering. In his book, you'll learn: * How to focus on the three pillars of synergy, interface, and exemplar to achieve outstanding results in your partnership * Why the very thing that attracts large corporations to startups—their significant differences—also makes it difficult to work t...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 21Ep. 335
