Our guest on today's Innovation Byte is the brilliant author, speaker, consultant, founder of Valize and Professor with Columbia Business School Rita McGrath welcome to the show. 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:14 The Survivorship Bias of Innovation 00:01:08 Blockbuster v Netflix 00:02:53 Kodak Story 00:04:29 Nokia Story 00:07:13 Captive to Customers
Oct 14, 2022•9 min•Season 20Ep. 394
"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall." ― Edward O. Wilson Today, we talk about Hate and The Brain and ask the question, are we wired to hate? The author "The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it", Professor Matt Williams enlightens us.
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 20Ep. 393
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? Drawing on twenty years of pioneering research - as well as his own experience as a hate-crime victim - our guest, a world-renowned criminologist explores one of the pressing issues of our age. Today we discuss the role of big tech, algorithms and echo chambers. We welcome the author of The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do ...
Oct 07, 2022•40 min•Season 20Ep. 392
The Five Fatal Habits: Why most organisations fail at innovation and agility with Geoff Marlow Find the pdf here: https://www.geoffmarlow.com/resources/
Oct 05, 2022•15 min•Season 20Ep. 391
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? Drawing on twenty years of pioneering research - as well as his own experience as a hate-crime victim - our guest, a world-renowned criminologist explores one of the pressing issues of our age. We welcome the author of The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it. Find Matt here: https://hatelab.net Timestamps: 00:00:00 I...
Oct 03, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 20Ep. 390
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. Art Markman Explains.
Sep 29, 2022•11 min•Season 20Ep. 389
Today's episode explores innovation from different perspectives: historical, scientific, sociological, cultural and practical — all through the feminine lens. It addresses the shortage of women in innovation and how important it is to address this as the first step to inclusion. This book reveals that any innovator can acquire the necessary skills to create meaningful innovation. It is about celebrating the duality of the feminine and the masculine in all human beings and dares us to activate bo...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 19Ep. 388
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 CEO's role to reach out to the Board 00:07:32 Board Theatre 00:11:28 ESG Sustainability and Stakeholders 00:15:15 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion 00:20:09 Positioning Change as a Journey 00:21:57 When it's time to leave 00:26:28 Leaving Well 00:36:36 Outro
Sep 23, 2022•35 min•Season 19Ep. 387
Courses are taught in MBA and executive development programs that provide a lot of information about the job. Direct reports and teams also observe leaders in action. But it's not until you assume a leadership job that the reality of the position hits home. The reality is that leaders operate in a crucible, one in which emotions run high and interpersonal relationships are at risk. Being in the spotlight, not having nearly enough hours in the day to address key issues, confronting right-versus-r...
Sep 20, 2022•36 min•Season 19Ep. 386
In today's knowledge economy that prizes intellectual capital—where we need all individuals to build passions and develop their full human potential—our education system is no longer sufficient. Amid the disaster since the pandemic's assault on society and schools over multiple school years, there is an opportunity to rebuild better by altering the fundamental assumptions undergirding our present-day schooling model. Today's book isn't about disruptive innovation. Nor is it about the devastation...
Sep 18, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 19Ep. 385
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 00:08:22 Convergent and Divergent Thinking 00:10:58 Educating People out of Creativity 00:12:29 Organisations and Creativity 00:16:39 Creative Exercises like de Bono's 6 Thinking Hats 00:22:22 The Von Restorff Effect Find Helena here: https://www.chequeredleopard.com...
Sep 15, 2022•27 min•Season 19Ep. 384
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 topics today If You Are Human You Are Biased Cognitive Dissonance and Motivated Reasoning Cognitive Energy Choice Overload, Complexity Avoidance Anchoring Effects and Wine Lists How Language Shapes Behaviour We Are Poor At Judging Risk The Availability Heuristic In Group/Out Group Find Helena here: https://www.chequeredleopard.com...
Sep 14, 2022•29 min•Season 19Ep. 383
The brain is the basis of everything we do: how we behave, communicate, feel, remember, pay attention, create, influence, and decide. Today's book combines scientific research with concrete examples and illustrative stories to clarify the complex mechanisms of the human brain. It offers valuable insights into how our brain works every day, at home and at work, and provides practical ideas and tips to help us lead happy, healthy, and productive lives. The thoughts you have and the words that you ...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr•Season 19Ep. 382
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 neuroscience is not enough. We also need the lived experience of human beings. Who better to teach us how to overcome compulsive overconsumption than those most vulnerable to it: people with addiction. Whether it's sugar or shopping, voyeuring or vaping, social media posts or The Washington Post, we all engage in behaviours we wish we didn't, or to...
Sep 10, 2022•48 min•Season 18Ep. 380
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 Message 00:00:33 What is Dopamine? 00:02:50 Access is Easy Now in a Digital World 00:10:14 Opioid-induced Hyperalgesia 00:11:27 Expectation Let Down Children 00:13:54 Cannabis Addiction and Dopamine Fasting 00:17:27 How Reminders of our Drug Can Trigger Desire to Use 00:21:43 Gambling Addiction 00:25:56 The DOPAMINE Acronym 00:36:09 Replace a reward with...
Sep 08, 2022•49 min•Season 18Ep. 381
In Hidden Truths, David Fubini delivers is that awareness of the critical capabilities and issues that come with the territory - capabilities and issues that often take leaders by surprise - goes a long way toward helping leaders perform at a high level. He presents the essential skills that will keep leaders delivering success - both professionally and within their organizations. We welcome the author of Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear but Are Rarely Told, David Fubini Time stamps: 00:...
Sep 04, 2022•34 min•Season 18Ep. 379
Today's episode provides practical knowledge that will not only help leaders do their jobs better, but assist boards, HR, consultants, and others in working effectively with these executives. One of the book's themes is that appearance is not reality. Much has been written and discussed about the apparent roles and responsibilities of CEOs and managing directors and other leaders. Courses are taught in MBA and executive development programs that provide a lot of information about the job. Direct...
Sep 01, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 18Ep. 378
Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege." That's not enough. To truly make progress we need to stop celebrating the problem and instead take effective steps to solve it. Through her own exhaustive research, fresh evidence and first-hand work with companies our guest shows how it's done, and, reassuringly, how easy it is to ge...
Aug 27, 2022•50 min•Season 18Ep. 377
Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege." That's not enough. To truly make progress we need to stop celebrating the problem and instead take effective steps to solve it. Through her own exhaustive research, fresh evidence and first-hand work with companies our guest shows how it's done, and, reassuringly, how easy it is to ge...
Aug 26, 2022•44 min•Season 18Ep. 376
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 coaches--supposedly experts in human performance--walking zombies who don't sleep, don't exercise and don't see their families. To succeed in the modern sporting world, head coaches must face some hard truths. By grappling with these truths, which cut to the very core of who they are as human beings, head coaches can get out of their own way and achie...
Aug 24, 2022•52 min•Season 18Ep. 375
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 to think differently about how change works. Our guest is the world expert in the new science of networks. His ground-breaking research across areas as disparate as voting, health, technology and finance has highlighted powerful and highly effective new ways to ensure lasting change. In today's book, he distils more than a decade of deep experience ...
Aug 22, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 18Ep. 374
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 brain and achieve unheard-of mental performance? With expert guidance from today's guest we can discover how to unlock the hidden potential of our brain. Using simple tools and techniques we can use each day, his book will show us how to: Utilise the principle of neuroplasticity to transform your daily life Harness straightforward strategies to lear...
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 17Ep. 373
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 brain and achieve unheard-of mental performance? With expert guidance from today's guest we can discover how to unlock the hidden potential of our brain. Using simple tools and techniques we can use each day, his book will show us how to: Utilise the principle of neuroplasticity to transform your daily life Harness straightforward strategies to lear...
Aug 16, 2022•55 min•Season 16Ep. 372
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 around the branch as the primary access point. Started with the Medici family in the 12th century. BANK 2.0: The emergence of self-service banking, defined by the first attempts to provide access outside of bank working hours. Commenced with ATM machines and accelerated in 1995 with the commercial internet. BANK 3.0: Banking when and where you neede...
Aug 11, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 371
Today's book is for anyone who wants to introduce a new idea or innovation into the world. Most marketers, innovators, executives, activists, or anyone else in the business of creating change, operate on a deep assumption. It is the belief that the best (and perhaps only) way to convince people to embrace a new idea is to heighten the appeal of the idea itself. We instinctively believe that if we add enough value, people will eventually say "yes." This reflex leads us down a path of adding featu...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 28Ep. 370
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 of "Framers: Make Better Decisions In The Age of Big Data", Kenneth Cukier Find Kenneth here: http://www.cukier.com @kncukier https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/05/11/imaginative-framing-is-the-key-to-problem-solving
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 369Ep. 27
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: Make Better Decisions In The Age of Big Data Kenneth Cukier Find Kenneth here: http://www.cukier.com @kncukier https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/05/11/imaginative-framing-is-the-key-to-problem-solving...
Jul 31, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 368Ep. 27
52 years ago, our guest foresaw and implemented the foundations for the world's first trillion-dollar organization. Back then, Visa was little more than a set of unorthodox convictions about organization slowly growing in the mind of a young corporate rebel. Today, according to the Visa 2019 annual report, payments and cash volume for the year was a staggering $11.6 trillion dollars, transactions processed on Visa's networks totalled $138.3 trillion dollars and the year saw some 3.4 billion Visa...
Jul 29, 2022•12 min•Season 27Ep. 367
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 something else instead: we taught rocks how to think. Intrigued? So was I and I'm delighted to host the man who'll answer this strange question in Act III of "Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future--and Shape It" Byron Reese, welcome back to the show Find Byron here: www.byronreese.com
Jul 28, 2022•56 min•Season 27Ep. 366
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 use mental models and can envision new realities outside of data. Great outcomes don't depend so much on the final moment of choosing but on generating better alternatives to choose between. That's framing. It's 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: ...
Jul 26, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 27Ep. 365