The Innovation Show

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 sp...

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-...

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.chequ...

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 Availabili...

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...

It’s a dopamine hit to welcome back Dr Anna Lembke, the author of "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence". Time Stamps 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 Ca...

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 vap...

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 a...

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 taug...

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 f...

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 f...

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 t...

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 n...

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 th...

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 th...

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: @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: @kncukier

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 unprecedented flowering...

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...