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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 machi...

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...

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

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  

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...

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 R...

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...

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 unprecedent...

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

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 t...

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 hemis...

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 histo...

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 stude...

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. T...

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 acco...

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 t...

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 lac...

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 lac...

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 creativi...

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 creativi...

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 r...

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 b...

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...

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 Brav...

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 "y...