Our guest's award-winning research introduces a new perspective on value creation and competition when industry boundaries break down in the wake of ecosystem disruption. His two books, The Wide Lens and Winning the Right Game, have been heralded as landmark contributions to strategy literature. Clayton Christensen described his work as "Path-breaking", and Jim Collins has called him "One of our most important strategic thinkers for the 21st century." It is a pleasure to welcome Ron Adner. Find ...
Feb 08, 2023•45 min•Season 23Ep. 423
In 2003, media companies and newspapers were in free fall, when American newspapers earned only a tiny percentage of revenue from digital. The Deseret News and Deseret Digital Media were the envy of others, with more than 50 percent of the organization's combined net income coming from digital sources. All this a little more than three years after a former Harvard Business School professor took over the company. How did he do it? He developed his strategy thanks to his work with Clayton Christen...
Feb 01, 2023•53 min•Season 23Ep. 422
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 Dilemma,that chapter Is entitled "Discovering New and Emerging Markets" It opens as follows: "Markets that do not exist cannot be analyzed: Suppliers and customers must discover them together. Not only are the market applications for disruptive technologies unknown at the time of their development, they are unknowable. The strategies and plans that manag...
Jan 29, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 23Ep. 421
In part 2 of our series to honour the work, life and theories of Clayton Christensen, Joseph Bower unpacks that famous HBR article, "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" This article spawned the book, "The Innovator's Dilemma" Joe Bower s the father of "Resource Allocation theory" included in his 1970 groundbreaking book, Managing the Resource Allocation Process. He has been a leader in general management at Harvard Business School for over five decades where he is the Donald K. David Pro...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 23Ep. 420
The logical, competent decisions of management that are critical to the success of their companies are also the reasons why they lose their positions of leadership." How can executives simultaneously do what is right for the near-term health of their established businesses while focusing adequate resources on the disruptive technologies that ultimately could lead to their downfall? The Innovator's Dilemma!!! Clayton Christensen fathered the "theory of disruptive innovation", but he also fathered...
Jan 22, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 23Ep. 4
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 neurodiversity, we respect people's deeper drives and motivations, and then companies will naturally achieve better results as a side effect. One thing we must keep in mind is that neurosignatures shouldn't be thought of as static. Our neurosignatures change throughout the day. When I get out of bed in the morning, my testosterone neurosignature is very high. ...
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Season 22Ep. 418
The story of language is the story of humanity; the new understanding of language that our guests outline in this book radically revises our conception of ourselves. In today's book, our guests outline a revolutionary perspective that overhauls almost everything we thought we knew about language. We will hear how the game of charades reveals deep insights into how language works. We'll hear how our brain can improvise linguistic 'moves' at an astonishingly rapid rate. We'll hear how languages ar...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Season 14Ep. 418
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 that business activities live on an uncertainty continuum - that we call the Explore-Exploit Continuum - and that creating new growth engines and managing existing business(es) are on opposite ends of this continuum. A better understanding of the Explore-Exploit Continuum will help executives and innovation teams put in place the right investment and ...
Jan 05, 2023•23 min•Season 22Ep. 417
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 experience, it's your stories—the ones you tell yourself habitually, for days, weeks, months, years, and even decades, that either move you closer to your goals and ideals or tragically, push them further away. Building upon his prior works and leaning upon advanced theories of thought and meta-cognition, Grunburg produces an epic finale and at the s...
Dec 30, 2022•15 min•Season 20Ep. 416
It is a pleasure to welcome back the author of "Banks and Fintech on Platform Economies: Contextual and Conscious Banking " Paolo Sironi, welcome to the show Evolving bank business models on outcome economies, resolving the tension between information and communication, which requires overcoming the fears of abandoning the shore of established operational models, and all the products and services rendered. In the dark of the new digital, financial and economic normal, only a crisp and clear visi...
Dec 26, 2022•24 min•Season 20Ep. 415
Co-author of "Eat Sleep Innovate", Paul Cobban, shares the importance of reframing your competitive set and the concept of MOJO Meetings and Wreckoon. Singapore's DBS Bank has been voted the world's best bank for five years in a row! It wasn't always like that. Today's guest remembered his first day at DBS in 2009: when he asked his taxi driver to take him to DBS, the driver said, "Ah, DBS—Damn Bloody Slow," referring to the notoriously long queues that plagued its ATMs. We are joined today on I...
Dec 20, 2022•14 min•Season 20Ep. 414
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 share his theories. We have been interviewing each of these great thinkers over the last few months and into 2023. We will bring you each of those episodes in chronological order of his book releases. It includes Matt Christensen, Clay's son and CEO of Rose Park Advisors, Rita McGrath, Joseph L. Bower, Michael Raynor, Scott D. Anthony Hal Gregerson, Ta...
Dec 15, 2022•10 min•Season 20Ep. 413
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 machine, organizations are living, dynamic systems that can't be programmed. Instead, they thrive through relationships, adaptive structures, diverse networks of people, the spaces they occupy, the tools they use – and so, so much more. For our guests– the answer to a better world lies in The Nature of Work Mindset: a new language inspired by forests...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 20Ep. 412
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), along with six academics working in the area of artificial intelligence and data privacy, wrote an open letter to Irelands Minster for Justice Helen McEntee last month, noting that the use of Facial Recognition Technology raises serious and challenging issues about individual privacy and data rights. Full letter here: https://www.iccl.ie/2022/iccl-highlights-concerns-over-proposed-garda-use-of-facial-recognition-technology/
Dec 03, 2022•16 min•Season 20Ep. 411
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 all proceeds going to scholarships for underrepresented minority women in STEM. We will discuss those books in the New Year, but for now, she is with us on Innovation Bytes to discuss "The 6 most common Innovation E.R.R.O.R.S.!" Find Jayshree Seth on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/raising-innovation-6-most-common-errors-jayshree-seth/...
Nov 30, 2022•19 min•Season 20Ep. 410
We are joined by Friederike Fabritius, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Brain-Friendly Workplace: Why Talented People Quit and How to Get Them to Stay and of the award-winning book The Leading Brain: Neuroscience Hacks to Work Smarter, Better, Happier. She joins us on Brain Bytes to discuss Fun, Fear and Focus Find Friederike here: https://friederikefabritius.com/
Nov 28, 2022•14 min•Season 20Ep. 409
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 we're all surrounded by to extract insights about where we are and where we are headed. It is a must-read for entrepreneurs, executives, policymakers, regulators and anyone seeking to navigate a complex world. The futurist and author Alvin Toffler once wrote, "Information overload occurs when the amount of input to a system exceeds its processing ca...
Nov 27, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 20Ep. 408
The Fintech Book is your primary guide to the financial technology revolution, and the disruption, innovation and opportunity therein. Written by prominent thought leaders in the European, UK and Hong Kong fintech investment space, this book aggregates diverse industry expertise into a single informative volume to provide entrepreneurs and investors with the answers they need to capitalize on this lucrative market. Key industry developments are explained in detail, and critical insights from cut...
Nov 23, 2022•45 min•Season 20Ep. 407
Once upon a time, the Persian king of all kings, Shahryār, beheaded his wife after discovering she was unfaithful. Overcome with rage, the monarch resolved to exact revenge on womankind by taking a new wife each night and beheading her the next morning. After most of the eligible women in the kingdom had either fled or been killed, Scheherazade, the daughter of the king's advisor, devised a scheme to save herself and future victims. Scheherazade insisted on marrying the monarch, and on their fir...
Nov 17, 2022•16 min•Season 20Ep. 406
The End of Meta/Facebook: Lying as a business model with Rita McGrath
Nov 16, 2022•9 min•Season 20Ep. 405
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 this puzzle has been a lifetime quest. Now, at last, the pioneer who discovered the brain mechanism for dreaming appears to have made a breakthrough. It is a pleasure to welcome the author of The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness, Mark Solms
Nov 14, 2022•10 min•Season 20Ep. 404
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 hopeless conflict, believe that the next tactic will finally be the one that wins the war. And in our own lives, we persist in relationships or careers that no longer serve us. We are often told that the secret to success is hard work, determination, and hours of practice. But in a fast-changing world, what if the really crucial skill is knowing wh...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Season 20Ep. 403
While you might assume that detailed agendas improve your meetings, they may have exactly the opposite effect. This is because many employees unwittingly engage in a practice we call agenda theatre: They sink time and effort into agendas that create the appearance of effective meetings, without actually improving how meetings are run. What drives this counterproductive behaviour — and what should meeting leaders do instead? Dr Ashley Whillans tells us what we do. Find Ashley's work here, includi...
Nov 07, 2022•8 min•Season 20Ep. 402
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 organization. Yet many non-management employees consider innovation outside the scope of their jobs.
Nov 04, 2022•10 min•Season 20Ep. 401
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
Nov 01, 2022•9 min•Season 20Ep. 400
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 book addresses what we can expect in the coming decades, and how companies and governments should adapt to accelerating change. You will also see improvement in your own ability to predict the next big thing – a valuable skill in any walk of life. Our guest is a serial entrepreneur and founding partner in the successful venture fund Nordic Eye and the ...
Oct 31, 2022•35 min•Season 20Ep. 399
Today's book is a must-read for CEOs, business leaders, regulators, fintech entrepreneurs, wealth managers, behavioural finance researchers and professionals working at financial technology companies, It offers an accessible grasp of the rapidly evolving outcome economy and a view of the future of the industry. Let me share an example of questions our guest both poses and answers throughout the book: "Financial services are experiencing a near collapse of their traditional value chain, which is ...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 20Ep. 398
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 decades, and how companies and governments should adapt to accelerating change. You will also see improvement in your own ability to predict the next big thing – a valuable skill in any walk of life. Our guest is a serial entrepreneur and founding partner in the successful venture fund Nordic Eye and the forecasting company Supertrends. Throughout hi...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 20Ep. 397
Most leaders know Innovation and Creativity are important for corporate survival, but this desire for Innovation often creates a new problem, When faced with the level of investment needed in terms of time and resources, most leaders baulk and look for shortcuts. Our guest today has seen them all and is with us to share "The Top 10 Innovation Shortcuts Company Leaders Should Avoid". He is a friend of the show, a leading consultant with the Strategyzer crew and the author of "Pirates In The Navy:...
Oct 19, 2022•13 min•Season 20Ep. 396
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 their sexual feelings. There is great diversity among lesbians and gay men, to be sure, but in general, homosexuality is part of a collection of gender-atypical traits, just as heterosexuality is part of a collection of gender-typical traits. These different "packages" arise because the sexual differentiation of the brain goes forward differently ...
Oct 18, 2022•49 min•Season 20Ep. 395
