The Innovation Show

A weekly show interviewing leaders in their fields, authors, renowned professors, inventors, innovators, change-makers and mavericks to inspire, educate and inform the business world and the curious. This Global show speaks of something greater beyond innovation, disruption and technology. It speaks to the human need to learn: how to adapt and love a changing world. It embraces the spirit of constant change, of staying receptive, of always learning. The show exists to enable people to be fully informed to lead better lives, lives packed with meaning.

EP 160: The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition with Jonathan Tepper

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America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies dominate key industries that affect our daily lives. Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook and Amazon act as gatekeepers to the digital world. Amazon is capturing almost all online shopping dollars. We have the illusion of choice, but for most critical decisions, we have only one or two companies, when it comes to high-speed Internet, health insurance, medical care, mortgage title insurance, social networks, Internet searches, or even consumer goods like toothpaste. Every day, the average American transfers a little of their paycheck to monopolists and oligopolists. 

The solution is vigorous anti-trust enforcement to return America to a period where competition created higher economic growth, more jobs, higher wages and a level playing field for all. 

Today’s show is the story of industrial concentration, but it matters to everyone because the stakes could not be higher. It tackles the big questions of: why is the US becoming a more unequal society, why is economic growth anaemic despite trillions of dollars of federal debt and money printing, why the number of start-ups has declined, and why are workers losing out.

We welcome the author of “The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition” Jonathan Tepper

We talk:

  • Monopolies
  • Duopolies
  • Oligopolies
  • Competition 
  • Monopsonies
  • Capitalism
  • Antitrust
  • Regulation
  • The worker being squeezes
  • The concentration of power
  • The Rural v Urban Divide
  • The Robber Barons
  • The Origin of the Problem
  • How concentration kills innovations
  • IPOS
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Some possible solutions

More about Jonathan here:

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EP 143: Iterate: Run a Fast, Flexible, Focused Management Team with Ed Muzio

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Today we discuss an iterative organisation, the only kind of organization that can learn and adapt fast enough to keep up in today’s world. For anyone running a team of managers, or advising someone who does, today we explore the fundamental behaviours that create iteration. 

Our guest will explain how to implement them, and how to get the process started. Iterate defines what management really is and helps readers create a fast, flexible, focused management team that does it well.

Our guest is recognised as one of the planet’s clearest thinkers on management practice and provides a research-based blueprint for a management team that will take the next best step for the organization in any situation. 

This show is for senior leadership, front line and middle management, and human resource executives and explores how to equip teams with both knowledge and practical skills so that they not only understand their own purpose but also perform that purpose well amidst ever-changing conditions. 

It touches on how to create measurable business results for any management team, of any size, in any industry where complex work and frequent change are the norm.

We explore:

  • How to tear down the silos created by the typical Western approach to management
  • How managers can manage other managers in an Iterative organization so that the whole organization is coordinated
  • How to promote front line self-sufficiency
  • How to successfully structure meetings to enable critical decision-making and ensure commitments are carried out
  • How to help your reports give their reports insight into the ways their work impacts the big picture

 CEO of Group Harmonics and award-winning author of “Iterate: Run a Fast, Flexible, Focused Management Team”, Ed Muzio

More on Ed and the book here:

https://iteratenow.com/

EP 112 – Creating a Digital Currency Brand founder of digital currency DNotes Global, Alan Yong

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Author of “The Four Pillars of Success” and DNotes Co-Founder Alan Yong Offers Insights on how to create a Digital Currency by sharing the DNotes’ Vision and Strategy.

We discuss everything you need to know about the formation of digital currency from the financial crisis to the rapid rise of Bitcoin.

Alan shares the need for trust in a new industry riddled with bad actors and Ponzi schemes.

This is a must listen for novice and expert wanting to learn more about cryptocurrencies, digital currencies, bitcoin and initial coin offerings (ICOs).

Learn more about Alan and Dnotes here: https://dnotesglobal.com

EP 107: Be More Pirate with social entrepreneur and author Sam Conniff Allende

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Steve Jobs famously said “I’d rather be pirate than join the navy”, on this show we will discuss what Steve Jobs meant by this.

From rogues to role models: Be More Pirate reveals the radical strategies of Golden Age pirates, and updates them into clear solutions for making your mark on the 21st Century.

Be More Pirate draws parallels between the strategy and innovation of legends like Henry Morgan with modern-day rebels, like Elon Musk, Malala and Blockchain, and reveals how to apply their tactics to life and work today.

Social entrepreneur and author Sam Conniff Allende shares the parallels and the principles we can draw to make a difference in our world today for the generations of tomorrow.

Sam shares the 5 key principles practised by pirates, which we can use today:

  1. Rebel – stand up to status quo
  2. Rewrite – bend and rewrite rules
  3. Reorganise – collaborate to achieve scale
  4. Redistribute – fairness, share power
  5. Retell – weaponise your story to establish and spread their legacy

Sam leaves us with the profound message of C.S. Lewis “Good and evil increase at compound interest. That’s why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance. the smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may go on to victories you never dreamed of”.

You can find out more about Sam and the book here:

https://www.samconniff.com/

https://www.bemorepirate.com/

http://livity.co.uk/

Tags: Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate, Livity, Rebel, Rewrite rules, Disruption, Innovation, Social Entrepreneur, Social Entrepreneurship, Storytelling, Lessons from Pirates, Golden Age pirates, modern-day rebels

EP 105: Do Design: Why Beauty is Key to Everything – Alan Moore

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So much passes us by, unnoticed. We multi-task, switch between screens, work faster. When was the last time you paused to consider a beautifully made object or stunning natural landscape? Yet this is when our spirits lift, our soul is restored.

In this show entrepreneur, author and speaker Alan Moore invites us to rethink not only what we produce -whether it’s a website, a handmade chair, or a business- but how and why. We discuss examples from Alan’s book “Do Design – Why Beauty is Key to Everything”.

We discuss:

Purpose and meaning in business

How younger generations are driving change

How Artificial intelligence can be harnessed for good

A new hope for humanity

How beauty and meaning can change the output of anything

How Innovation should embrace failure

You can find out more about Alan here:

http://beautiful.business/

EP 92: We Do Things Differently with author Mark Stevenson

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We speak to “Reluctant futurist” Mark Stevenson, author of two bestselling books, An Optimist’s Tour of the Future and the award-winning We Do Things Differently.

We are at a rare moment in time where the future is up for grabs and the following realms are in a state of upheaval:

Environment

Economics

Society

Education

Politics

Technology

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, others build windmills” – Chinese Proverb

This book and this innovation show are about this windmills and the people who are building them.

We talk about the heroes of innovation and disruption, those people sacrificing so much to make the World a better place:

Jamie Heywood’s nonprofit PatientsLikeMe portal – modelled after dating sites and his 

fight to find a cure for ALS after his brother Stephen contracted and died from the illness.

Samir Brahmachari, India’s highest ranking scientist who is fighting for a cure to fight antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis. TB kills 4,000 per day worldwide and 1 person per minute in India. There hasn’t been a front-line drug since 1970

We talk about Dr Erika Syger who was suffering death threats for her drive to disrupt and implement new food systems.

We discuss Peter Dearman’s “liquid air” engine, which brings food refrigeration to the developing world.

We talk about the energy trilemma and the clash between environmentalists and fossil fuel lobbyists. We discuss the great story of former professional basketball player Reinhard Koch and Mayor Peter Vadasz and the town of Güssing, Austria, which experienced a massive revival when it went green.

We mention the case of “Open Utility” and James Johnson who was inspired by Ethernet co-director Bob Metcalfe and built a smart grid based Ethernet, an uber for energy.

Ashley Atkinson and KGD (keep growing Detroit), which uses “urban farming” to achieve urban renewal.

In education, we talk about Carl Jarvis and how he turned around one of the UK’s worst-performing schools in spite of the education system who bullied him.

In politics, we mention Maria Ines Naha and Fernando Pimental of Brazil and the idea of participatory budgeting, where citizens decide where the budget is assigned.

You can find out more about Mark and his books here:

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EP 88: How To Fix The Future with Andrew Keen

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We speak with Andrew Keen, the pioneer of calling into question the impact of technology and the resulting new business models on society.

He has been called a luddite and a technological Antichrist for calling out such concerns.

Today, no-one calls him that today.

He is the author of the fantastic books:

The Cult of the amateur

Digital Vertigo

The Internet is Not the Answer and the focus of our chat:

“How to Fix The Future”

Andrew’s book “How to Fix the Future” outlines a map of how we might approach the future of humanity amidst a world of ai, technology, algorithm and tech behemoths.

Andrew looks at how humanity has overcome huge change in the past and how we can use what we have learned in the past to fix the future.

We explore:

  1. Legal regulation, where innovation and regulation are symbiotic. Andrew discusses some of the exemplars of regulation and how we can learn from them. We also discuss governments driving change such as Estonia, Singapore and even China.
  2. Innovators and innovation diving change
  3. The role of consumers and social responsibility, where consumers shape society with their needs.
  4. Philanthropists, non-profits and committed change makers like Edward Snowden and you Andrew Keen!
  5. Education and our roles as parents, teachers and educators of every kind.

You can find more about Andrew and where to buy his books here:

http://www.ajkeen.com/how-to-fix-the-future/

EP 71: Fairtrade meets Blockchain, Fairchain Coffee – Moyee Coffee

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Shane Reilly is co-founder of Moyee Coffee in Ireland alongside Killian Stokes. Moyee Coffee is a social business supplying Ethiopian speciality coffee to offices, independent retailers and online subscribers since September 2016.  

Their approach to changing the coffee industry is called FairChain, which is about leaving more value, profit and jobs in coffee-producing countries like Ethiopia. 

Since the early November, Moyee has been running a pilot project in Ethiopia with blockchain pioneers bext360 to prove more than ever that coffee is capable of leading the way to a more honest, fairer society.

The first ‘block’ in the chain has already begun and you can follow real-time payments to Ethiopian farmers for their coffee cherries. This is nothing less than a revolution and the start of a project that will bring an unprecedented level of transparency in a profoundly unfair industry.

The bext360 blockchain project will mean by next year all Moyee’s coffee will be fully blockchain-traceable from the washing station in Ethiopia to our retail and office customers in Europe.

EP 70: Blockchain “The Planetary Brain” with Vince Meens

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Vince tells us how Blockchain will act like a canvas to connect the World, like a giant brain. We discuss the many benefits of a connected World built on this new technology. Vince gives us a plethora of fantastic examples where we will see Blockchain realise its potential.

We discuss the blockers to adoption, some possible routes of how to begin.

We discuss accountability, transparency and trust and how the World of business will dramatically change.

Fascinating listen, worth the time investment.

EP 69: Decentralisation, Decapitalisation, Disintermediation – Peerism

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Nathan Waters is the founder of Peerism, a blockchain-based economic protocol which aims to solve job automation and wealth inequality via skill tokens, proof-of-skill and matching paid work to tokenized skill levels. He is a futurist, entrepreneur and social decentralist. He also founded and organises one of the largest Ethereum meetups in the world SydEthereum and the largest independent hackathon in Australia Hackagong.

http://peerism.org

https://medium.com/peerism/blockchain-commons-the-end-of-all-corporate-business-models-3178998148ba

http://sydethereum.com