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 135: The Writer’s Process: Getting Your Brain in Gear with author Anne Janzer

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For centuries, people have searched for ways to access inspiration and streamline content creation. Whether praying to the muses or shutting themselves into dark rooms, authors use trial and error to find the methods that work for them.

What if we could apply cognitive science principles to determine our own perfect methods for creativity and productivity?

We welcome the author of “Writing to Be Understood, Subscription Marketing, The Workplace Writer’s Process and the focus of today’s episode  “The Writer’s Process: Getting Your Brain in Gear”, Anne Janzer

We talk about:

  • Behavioural writing sciences
  • Anne’s 2 writing systems, The Muse and the Scribe
  • The focus and discipline of the Scribe
  • The intuition, creativity, and empathy of the Muse
  • Attention and focus strategies
  • Flow
  • Managing time
  • Self-discipline and procrastination
  • The 7 step writing process
  • The drafting period
  • The revision period
  • What type of editor
  • The biases we will encounter
  • Feedback
  • Corporate Writing

More about Anne here:

https://annejanzer.com/writers-process/

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EP 101: Get to The Point with author and strategic communications trainer Joel Schwartzberg

 

EP 134: Five Stars with author Carmine Gallo

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As the forces of globalisation, automation, and artificial intelligence combine to disrupt every field and every career, having a good idea isn’t good enough. Mastering the ancient art of persuasion is the key to standing out, getting ahead, and achieving greatness in the modern world. Communication is no longer a “soft” skill—it is the human edge that will make you unstoppable, irresistible, and irreplaceable—earning you that perfect rating, that fifth star.

Carmine Gallo is the bestselling author of many titles including Talk Like TED, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, The Storytellers Secret and the focus of today’s show “Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great”

We talk:

  • Persuasion offering a competitive advantage
  • We need to focus on a specific and time specific goal
  • What we can learn from John F. Kennedy
  • The NASA story
  • Interview skills
  • Why we should keep our presentations brief
  • Verbal content versus visual content
  • Corporate storytelling
  • The Pathos Principle
  • Origin Stories
  • The element of struggle
  • The example of Nike
  • Psychological Safety
  • The use of simple language
  • Winston Churchill
  • John Chambers, Cisco CEO, Emeritus

More about Carmine and his books here:

http://www.carminegallo.com

 

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EP 101: Get to The Point with author and strategic communications trainer Joel Schwartzberg

EP 132: Engaging Countries, Cities, Region with Imagination – Robert Govers

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Many of us feel uneasy with the lack of recognition that our community, city, region or country receives internationally and with the stereotypes and outdated clichés by which “outsiders” define us. This has probably been the case for as long as man exists, but in today’s world with its global connections and social media, it is becoming more apparent, more relevant and more frustrating; to citizens generally, but in particular to policymakers, public administrators, leaders and representatives in public, private and civil society sectors.

Why this is so and what to do about it is the focus of today’s show. We will discuss the topic of community reputation. For communities to be admired, they need a sense of belonging and purpose in order to do amazing imaginative things befitting their character while captivating others.

Our guest is an international adviser, scholar, speaker and author of “Imaginative Communities: Admired cities, regions and countries” Dr Robert Govers

We discuss:

  • Place reputation, how it impacts other’s view of us and our view of ourselves
  • “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” – Napoleon Hill. People can be influenced by how others speak about them and then it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  • Globalization: In 2000, 2/3s of the worlds online population was from North America and Europe. In 2010 2/3s of the worlds online population was from elsewhere
  • How countries, regions and cities can no longer compete based on functional characteristics like accessibility, service levels and other advantages
  • How interconnectedness and globalisation have led to homogeneity so imagination can be a competitive advantage?
  • “Imagination is its own form of courage” – Frank Underwood, House of Cards
  • How it takes courage to paddle your own canoe, just like business, just like life
  • Kazakhstan and the “Stan Effect”
  • Collaboration as a key to gain maximum benefit from imagination
  • The story about Oslo’s future library
  • “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
  • Estonia as an imaginative community
  • The little-known country of Bhutan and its gross national happiness
  • Most of our listeners are in the USA so let’s share the imaginative virtues that founded America?
  • Communicating communities, you can’t advertise this, it is pull and not push
  • Communities addressing existing clichés and stereotypes?
  • Finland (hello to our listeners on Business FM) where they developed their own set of emojis
  • Communities are built on mental Models: Schema and Schemata
  • How we limit information processing and selective learning by applying five filters?
  • How mainstream Media also plays a huge part
  • The 2006 World Cup hosted by Germany and Germany’s goal to change its reputation to be one that is much more friendly than perceived
  • How marketing requires reputation and reputation leads to sharing of great experiences
  • Like any strategy, we tend to focus on short-term returns on investment. This is a long game you want perceptions to seep into the consciousness of outsiders

More about Robert here: https://rgovers.com/ and https://www.imaginativecommunities.com/contents/

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EP 82: What is The Experience Economy? with business provocateur Joseph Pine II

 

EP 131: The Human Workplace: People-Centred Organizational Development with Andy Swann

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“The digital transformation is over. We live in an age where digital is the default setting. Anyone who is yet to transform is either obsolete or on the way there.” – Andy Swann

The modern world and old organizations are not compatible. Right now, we’re communicating, thinking, collaborating, sharing, working and playing in ways that couldn’t have been imagined two decades ago, yet somehow many of our businesses and the structures employed to operate them remain the same, carrying on in the way they always have. There are many reasons why this is completely unsustainable and we’re going to explore these as we journey through what makes a human workplace.

The human workplace is one that adapts, innovates fast, involves everyone, communicates, understands and acts in perpetuity. It creates relationships rather than transactions. People are emotional, responsive, individual. That’s what our organizations need to be, creating a story and telling it in their own way.

Our guest is the author of The Human Workplace: People-Centred Organizational Development, Andy Swann

We talk:

  • The Startup Myth
  • Collective Energy
  • Purposeful Organisations
  • The definition of A human workplace
  • Connection with community
  • Agility
  • Complex, dispersed organizations
  • Purpose = Survival + X
  • When the community thrives, the organization thrives.
  • The problem with hierarchy (is not what you think)
  • The organisation as a platform
  • Just enough structure to thrive
  • Holes and wholes?
  • Scaling up startups and the Dunbar number.
  • Why and how does personal purpose come before company purpose?

More about Andy Swann here:

https://andyswann.co.uk/

EP 127: Where Others Won’t: Taking People Innovation from the Locker Room Into the Boardroom with Cody Royle

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In the corporate world, we’re fast realizing that people are our largest source of competitive advantage. The problem is, all of our systems and structures are set up for products, services and technology to give us an edge over our rivals. But whether it’s recruitment, leadership, culture or high-performance, pro sports has been quality-testing people strategies for decades, and now contains a treasure trove of ideas for you to harness. Through in-depth interviews and meticulous research, Where Others Won’t dives deeper than ever before into professional sports from around the world.

We are joined by author of “Where Others Won’t: Taking People Innovation from the Locker Room Into the Boardroom”, Cody Royle

We talk:

  • Team building
  • Leadership
  • Hiring
  • Innovation
  • Outside-the-box thinking
  • Best Principles
  • Leaders as Coaches
  • and much more.

More about Cody here:

https://medium.com/where-others-wont

EP 125: The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time with Allen Gannett

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We have been spoon-fed the notion that creativity is the province of genius – of those favoured, brilliant few whose moments of insight arrive in unpredictable flashes of divine inspiration.  And if we are not a genius, we might as well pack it in and give up. Either we have that gift, or we don’t.  But that simply isn’t true.  Recent research has shown that there is a predictable science behind achieving commercial success in any creative endeavour, from writing a popular novel to starting up a successful company to creating an effective marketing campaign.  

 As the world’s most creative people have discovered, we are enticed by the novel and the familiar. By understanding the mechanics of what is called “the creative curve” – the point of optimal tension between the novel and the familiar – everyone can better engineer mainstream success.   

Our guest on this episode reveals the four laws of creative success and identifies the common patterns behind their achievement.

We welcome Big Data entrepreneur, CEO of Trackmaven and author of the fantastic “Creative Curve” Allen Gannett.

  • On this episode we talk:
  • The origin of the creativity myth
  • The myth of the lightbulb moment
  • The patterns behind the creative curve
  • The four laws of the creative curve:
  • Law of consumption
  • Law of imitation
  • Law of creative communities
  • Law of iterations
  • The social acceptance of ideas
  • The significance of the mere exposure effect
  • Psychological safety
  • Ben and Jerry as champions of the creative curve

More about Allen Gannet here:

http://www.allen.xyz

https://trackmaven.com/

EP 124: Dogs Don’t Bark at Parked Cars with Jeff Piersall

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“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of other men” – Albert Einstein

Dogs don’t bark at parked cars. Dogs only chase moving objects. If you aspire to invest your life in a noble goal; you will experience barking dogs. But you do not have to stop the car for them.

Drawing from a life time of entrepreneurial experiences and relationships with some of today’s most dynamic business leaders, founder and CEO of SCB Marketing and author of “Dogs don’t bark at parked cars”, Jeff Piersall shares core principles that are the blocking and tackling of a successful life.

We discuss:

  • Tackling the Naysayers
  • Overcoming Fear
  • Trust
  • Social Enterprise
  • Medicating Entrepreneurship
  • Paying it Forward
  • and much more

You can find out more about Jeff here:

http://www.jeffpiersall.com/

EP 123: Finding Time to Lead Seven Practices to Unleash Outrageous Potential

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The world is full of leaders, from newly minted entrepreneurs to highly paid CEOs. There are nearly a quarter million CEOs in America alone. But according to a Gallup report, only one in ten people possess the talent that’s required of a CEO. If 90% of people lack innate management skills, how CEOs succeed?

CEOs can build incredible cultures, grow companies, and enhance the bottom line. But without the right guidance, they can just as easily burn out, cause cultures to stagnate, and lead their organisations to ruin.

Drawing from twenty-plus years of working side by side with today’s top leaders, Leadership expert and author of Finding Time to Lead, Leslie Peters pulls back the leadership curtain to reveal the shifts, practices, and tools that move leaders past the status quo.

We explore:

  • Why “having all the answers” ultimately sabotages success
  • How to recognise if busy-ness is, in fact, a sign of anxiety or discomfort
  • Why there’s no such thing as a perfectly crafted corporate message
  • How the lack of a counter-narrative can bring a CEO down
  • How to lead change in a way that brings people along
  • Three great shifts as leader:
  • From doing to being
  • From knowing to understanding
  • From reacting to responding

 

More about Leslie Peters here: https://www.findingtimetolead.com/

EP 119: Trustology: The Art and Science of Leading High-Trust Teams with Speaker, Author, Consultant, Richard Fagerlin

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“Trust is not what we “do”—it is what results from what we do.” – Richard Fagerlin

Of the thousands of books published each year on leadership, management, self-help, and motivation, very few offer practical tools and solutions to the number one challenge in business: trust. 

With trust, our relationships flourish, our productivity rises, and we have high personal and professional satisfaction. A trust-filled atmosphere lets people take risks, allowing innovation and creativity to thrive. Your team’s collective sense of self-worth and purpose becomes a beacon of light for others to follow. The healthy, dynamic atmosphere is contagious, and it raises the bar for your entire organisation. Higher productivity and lower turnover create a more profitable business. High trust is the currency of greatness. 

We welcome founder and president of Peak Solutions, globally renowned speaker, consultant and author of Trustology Richard Fagerlin.

In this episode, we address questions like:

What is trust?

Is trust earned?

Who is responsible for trust?

How do you grow trust with others?

What does it mean to be trustworthy?

How can I lead my team to be a high-trust team?

How do I find out how much trust my team has now?

How can team members hold each other accountable for high-trust behaviour?

Any high-trust relationship involves at least two people, so there are always two things to think about regarding trust: Do you trust them? Do they trust you?

How do you build trust in your children?

The premise is that both are your responsibility.

A high-trust relationship requires that you trust the other person and that they trust you back.

More about Richard and his work here:

https://richardfagerlin.com

http://www.trustologybook.com

https://www.peaksol.com

EP 118 – Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age with Greg Satell

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“Every Square-Peg Business Eventually Meets Its Round-Hole World.” – Greg Satell

On this episode author, speaker and consultant Greg Satell shares with us the principles of his latest book: Mapping Innovation. In this show we discuss:

  • How so-called geniuses Einstein, Darwin and Fleming needed more than their individual genius to bring their ideas to life
  • Why innovation fails
  • A better understanding of innovation by dispelling myths
  • How Blockbuster, Kodak and others were well aware of the threats that disrupted them
  • How Air BnB and Hotels serve different market needs
  • New tools to frame problems
  • How innovation in the digital age has evolved from previous times
  • How collaboration is king
  • Highlight that you need to re-energise your human capital not just your technological resources
  • Why we need a personalised portfolio approach to our innovation efforts
  • How Google, Amazon and others prepare for their eventual cash cow disruption

You can learn more about Greg here:

https://www.digitaltonto.com/about/

https://www.gregsatell.com/

Ep 117: The Science behind Science Fiction with Edward M.Lerner: Augmented Humanity, AI, Superintelligence

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Today’s show is with one of the leading global writers of hard science fiction and indeed cyberfiction. He is the author of over 18 titles and what we hope is fascinating for followers of this show is the science he puts behind the fiction. As opposed to fantasy writing, science fiction is based on possible realities and that fact is often lost on many of us.

A physicist and computer scientist, he toiled in the vineyards of high tech for thirty years, as everything from engineer to senior vice president. Once suitably intoxicated, he began writing full time.

We welcome Edward M. Lerner.

The focus of this show is themes from his book: ‘Trope-ing the Light Fantastic: The Science Behind the Fiction’.

We discuss:

  • Augmented Humanity
  • Cyborgs
  • Robots
  • Genetic Therapy
  • Brain Machine Interfaces
  • Autonomous Weapons
  • AI, Artificial Intelligence
  • Super intelligence
  • Neural Networks
  • Dystopia
  • The future skills of humanity
  • What we do when everything automated

More about Edward here: https://www.edwardmlerner.com/

EP 115: The End of the Firm-Based Strategy and Rise of New Models for Explosive Growth with Ralph Welborn, PhD

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The business logic of the past decades no longer applies. A changed competitive world requires a new strategic question: “Where is the value being created — and destroyed — in the ecosystem in which you’re engaged, and what do you do about it?” 

Ralph Welborn, PhD is today’s guest. Ralph has held a variety of leadership positions, including CEO of Imaginatik, where he received the European CEO award in 2016; he has been leader of IBM’s Strategy & Transformation business in the Middle East and Africa; and senior vice president of KPMG Consulting and is also co-founder of an e-commerce company, today’s focus is his truly excellent book: Topple – The End of the Firm-Based Strategy and Rise of New Models for Explosive Growth.

Ralph will share specific lessons and insights for every sized organization to make sense of the changed competitive environment, including:

What is your ecosystem? — Who comprises it, and what is driving the shifts in value?

How, instead of pushing products, do you own a problem, meet a specific customer need and/or tackle specific friction?

What are the implications of the new strategic questions on where you play and, most importantly, how you execute?

What are the new capabilities critical to do so?

Who and how do you engage to orchestrate capabilities to capture the new sources of value in new ways?

EP 110: The Truth about Consumers and the Psychology of Shopping: Consumer.ology with Philip Graves

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If we depend on market research to dictate business decisions, today’s guest explains how this is a big mistake. Market research cannot predict buying decisions because it focuses on the conscious mind, like most of our daily decisions in life and business. we make them unconsciously.

With corporate risk aversion at an all-time high, it’s no surprise that marketing professionals increasingly reach for market research to support their strategies. Then, if products and marketing campaigns fail, they blame the research.

While this episode is invaluable for all business owners and marketers – it will equally help us understand any customer better, but also understand ourselves.

Today’s guest has had no hesitation in calling out a multi-billion dollar industry for its frailties and suggesting a better way. We welcome consumer behaviour expert and author of the best-seller ‘Consumerology: The Truth about Consumers and the Psychology of Shopping’, Philip Graves

We talk: Focus groups versus real life situations?

Why Asking Is Fruitless

Brand Fails such as New Coke and The Post Office rebranding as Consignia

How brands like Red Bull succeeded in face of bad focus group research

Simplification and Stickiness

The misattributing of consultancy spend

The importance of the entrepreneurial gut feeling

The importance of Social proof

The biases that sway our decisions

The Philip Graves AFECT Model Analysis (of behavioural data) Frame (of mind) “Environment”  “Covert study” “Timeframe”

You can find out more about Philip including where to buy his book here: http://philipgraves.net/

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 104: The Importance of Energy, Diverse Thinkers, Empaths and Intuitive Thinking

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“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” Steve Jobs

We are forever in a rush In a high-tech volatile society, we barely have time to enjoy our lives and we tolerate tired joyless states. We talk to the pioneer of energy psychiatry Judith Orloff M.D.

Judith is a psychiatrist, an empath and intuitive healer, and is on the UCLA Psychiatric Clinical Faculty. She synthesises the pearls of traditional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, energy, and spirituality.

Judith also specialises in treating empaths and highly sensitive people in her private practice. She passionately believes that the future of medicine involves integrating all this wisdom to achieve total wellness. Dr. Orloff’s work has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Oprah and USA Today.

We talk about recognising energy vampires, energy zones, diversity, innovation, tuning in to our intuition and some tips for us to use in the workplace to avoid workaholism and burnout.

You can find out more about Judith and her books here:

https://drjudithorloff.com/

EP 103: How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci – Michael J Gelb

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We live in a world of unprecedented disruption. But we are all born of the sun, and travelling towards it. How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci is a guidebook, inspired by one of history’s great souls, for that journey.

This book is an invitation to breathe the vivid air, to feel the fire in your heart’s centre, and the full flowering of your spirit.

We welcome specialist in innovation and creativity, founder of The High Performance Learning Center and author of 15 books, Michael J. Gelb.

We talk about the seven DaVinci principles and some exercises to hone these skills and how we might introduce them for a more satisfying life

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You can find out more about Michael J. Gelb here:

https://michaelgelb.com/

EP 100: Creative People Must Be Stopped: 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying) 

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Creative People Must Be Stopped: 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying) with author David A. Owens, Professor for the Practice of Management and Innovation and Faculty Director, VU Accelerator-Summer Business Institute

Strategic Innovation, New Product Design and Development, Organizational Design

If you pick up a book on innovation or creativity, it is often written from an expertise in one area perspective. This isolates other elements which may be much more relevant to your challenge.

David Owens has written this accessible book for everyone breaking the silos of discipline to give a rounded framework useful to all fields.

This is a must listen for corporate innovators, leaders and innovators of any kind.

We discuss:

The six constraints of innovation

The challenges of silos

How we are constrained individually, in groups and in society.

The challenges of expertise and the opportunities of true diverse thinking

You can find out more about David and his work here:

https://creativepeoplemustbestopped.com/

You can buy his book here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-People-Must-Stopped-Innovation/dp/1118002903/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Tags: David A. Owens, Professor for the Practice of Management and Innovation and Faculty Director, VU Accelerator-Summer Business Institute, Strategic Innovation, New Product Design and Development, Organizational Design, Constraint Thinking, Innovation, Entrepreneur, Corporate Innovator, Intrapreneur, Creative People Must Be Stopped: 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying) 

EP 98: The Distracted Mind, Attention, Focus, iDisorders with Larry D. Rosen PhD

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Dr Larry Rosen is the best-selling author of multiple books including ones we will talk about today: iDisorder and The Distracted Mind, which touch on the disorders we are experiencing, amplified by technology and why we are behaving the way we do.

We talk:

The state of distraction

The increasing anxiety experienced

The multitude of scientific studies on attention spans

iDisorders and how anxiety has surpassed depression and the no.1 disorder for the youth

Why we keep checking our phones

The tools and strategies to counteract poor attention and focus

Sleep deprivation and sleep debts

How napping is not enough

How our brain works and how it flushes toxic chemicals

Strategies to sleep better

Music can help us calm down

How psychological problems form in technology

The attention economy and social networks

How parents can counteract iDisorders in their children

How parents can counteract their own iDisorders

The effect of first person shooter games on the mind

The multitasking myth

Instant gratification in children

The challenge of single screening

The current challenge of focus

More about Larry Rosen and his books here:

http://drlarryrosen.com/topics/books/

Talks here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivyQtk-5OZM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0OqA0pmAag&t=2s

Psychology Today Blog:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/experts/larry-d-rosen-phd

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EP 89: Can I Have Your Attention? How to Think Fast, Find Your Focus and Sharpen Your Concentration with Joseph Cardillo PhD

EP 51: Is you attention and focus a problem? The future of work in the knowledge economy.

EP 73: “Focus and Unfocus”, Power your Creativity with Dr Srini Pillay

 

 

 

EP 97: Soonish Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

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Space Elevators, Asteroid Mining, Buckets of programmable matter, à la carte physical features and printable houses. We are joined by authors of ‘Soonish’, Dr Kelly and Zach Weinersmith.

Dr Kelly Weinersmith works in the BioSciences department at Rice University, and is the co-host of Science . . . Sort Of, a top-rated science podcast. Her research has been featured in the Atlantic, National Geographic and BBC World.

Zach Weinersmith is the creator of the popular webcomic, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. His work has also been featured in a variety of publications, including the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Slate and Forbes.

In this action-packed show we talk about:

Space elevators

Asteroid mining

Fusion Power

Programmable matter

Ethical questions

Bucket of stuff

Inexpensive Construction

Robots v humans

3D Print houses

Synthetic Biology

Genetics

DNA manipulation

Crisper cast 9

Made to order looks for your kids

J Craig Venter

Brain Interfaces

Improving memory and cognitive ability

Find out more about Kelly and Zach here:

http://www.weinersmith.com/

https://smbc-comics.com/soonish/

EP 94: Innovation’s Dirty Little Secret: Why Serial Innovators Succeed Where Others Fail

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Larry Osborne is a senior and teaching pastor at North Coast Church, acclaimed as one of the most influential and innovative churches in America. Under his leadership the church has grown from 128 to over 12,000 on a weekend.

With Larry’s success with innovating in a crystallised culture many leading CEOs and organisation sought out his formula. On this show, we discuss that formula.

His books include: Sticky Teams, Sticky Church, Sticky Leaders, Mission Creep, and today’s focus Innovation’s Dirty Little Secret: Why Serial Innovators Succeed Where Others Fail.

With innovation there’ll always be more failures than successful innovations. We discuss why innovation gets such good Press? When it comes to our own innovation efforts, we focus on the outlier, we turn a blind eye. We think we are different, we are sure our ideas will succeed.

Larry shares a framework and some very practical concepts on how to give innovation the best chance to succeed in any organisation.

EP 93: How to Build an A Team and How to Disrupt Yourself with Whitney Johnson

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Whitney Johnson is a CEO Advisor, Thinkers50 Management Thinker and author of ‘Dare, Dream, Do’, ‘Disrupt Yourself’ and ‘Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve’.

Only 33% of people in the USA and 15% Worldwide are engaged in the workplace. We discuss how great leaders can manage their people like a portfolio, they develop their people by enabling them to learn, leap and repeat.

We discuss how organisations can build an ecosystem where people will disrupt themselves in the short-term for the growth of the organisation in the long term.

In this great chat, we discuss some exemplars of personal and organisational disruption.

Whitney shares the principles of personal disruption which we can apply to ourselves to lead more exciting and meaningful careers and lives.

You can find out more about Whitney, her books and the “Disrupt Yourself” podcast at the following links:

https://whitneyjohnson.com/

https://whitneyjohnson.com/books/

https://whitneyjohnson.com/disrupt-yourself-podcast/

EP 90: The ADHD Advantage: What You Thought Was a Diagnosis May Be Your Greatest Strength 

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Dale Archer M.D. is a Psychiatrist and Founder/CEO of The Institute for Neuropsychiatry and NYT bestselling author of two great books: ‘The ADHD Advantage’ and ‘Better than Normal’.

We talk about how ADHD can be a huge advantage if we society adjusts so ADHD-ers to see it as an advantage and not a sickness. We talk about the perfect storm of overdiagnosis, the profits from ADHD medication and trigger-happy prescriptions of ADHD drugs.

We talk about how the ADHD brain works and is challenged by our one-size-fits-all education system.

We talk about the ADHD gifts of resilience, “Bingo-Brain, non-linear thinking and multi-tasking.

Dale shares some tips for parents of ADHD-ers and we celebrate some of the heroes of ADHD.

You can find out more about Dale Archer and his work, including where to buy his books here:

http://drdalearcher.com/

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 84: Reimagining the Bathroom Sink, Disruption in a mature Market

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Steve Waddell is founder and CEO of Nasoni. Steve is disrupting a very mature market, this is the first functional change to the faucet in over 80 years. Steve shares his mindset, his background, his challenges and his motivation.

This show is very useful for anyone who wants to understand bootstrapping a physical product from everything from patent to prototype.

You can find out more here:

https://nasoni.com/

https://vimeo.com/249864698

https://nasoni.com/pages/what-else-can-fontanina-be-used-for

EP 83: That Shit Will Never Sell – Thoughts on Ideas and How to Sell Them with David Gluckman

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David Gluckman is the common denominator of so many brands we know and love. Kerrygold butter, Baileys Irish Cream, Smirnoff Black, Le Piat D’or and many more.

We discuss his book That s!it will never sell! through the lens of the lessons it imparts. We discuss the best ways to sell ideas. We discuss the best ways to deliver ideas. We discuss new product development and how to get them over the line.

David shares some of his failures and the lessons learned and the ones that got away.

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

http://www.thatshitwillneversell.com/

You can read his Linkedin articles reference on the show here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/marketing-success-requires-appetite-risk-david-gluckman

The story of the ship mender is here:

https://atkinsbookshelf.wordpress.com/2016/06/06/the-parable-of-the-ship-mechanic/

EP 78 – Victims of Thought – We are not our Thoughts with Jill Whalen

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Jill Whalen is author Victim of Thought: Seeing Through the Illusion of Anxiety

Jill shares her new understanding of life, which has caused decades of anxiety and addictions to simply melt away.

We discuss this new understanding in the context of business and life, by understanding that we are not victims of other people and experiences, but we have been simply victims of thought allows us to liberate ourselves and become happier and more peaceful.

You can find out more about Jill here:

http://whatdidyoudowithjill.com/

Her online course is here:

http://whatdidyoudowithjill.com/explore-illusion-of-me/

Her book is here:

Victim of Thought: Seeing Through the Illusion of Anxiety

EP 73: “Focus and Unfocus”, Power your Creativity with Dr Srini Pillay

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Daydreaming, Imagination, Psychological Halloweenism, Doodling. We welcome the brilliant Dr Srini Pillay. Srini is CEO of NeuroBusiness group and part-time assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard. He is Author of ‘Think Less, Learn More’

In this fantastic chat, we discuss how individuals can harness their inner creativity through a series of easy to do daily rituals. Dr Srini Pillay shares some of the tools he had developed to unleash our innovation.

We discuss how and why individuals can become more innovative, more creative, happier and less stressed.

We discuss how corporations can embrace the true diversity of thought.

We discuss how leaders can harness vision to create better organisations.

We discuss the mindset behind the law of attraction and why it works when done properly.

More on Srini and his work here: https://drsrinipillay.com/

EP 64: Innovation through Thinking Sideways

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with Captain Sideways a.k.a. Dr. Tony McCaffrey
CTO, Innovation Accelerator, Inc.
Eagle Hill School, Director of Entrepreneurial Studies

What other ways could people have escaped from the Titanic?
How can we unlock talent in gifted people who are framed as less?
We explore how we can be “fixed” in our mindsets and how there are techniques to unlock their thinking. We discuss a new kind of school and approach with Eagle Hill School. We discuss how AI and humanity can co-operate for even better results than working separately.

Harvard Business Review magazine article: Find Innovation Where You Least Expect It
https://hbr.org/2015/12/find-innovation-where-you-least-expect-it

Harvard Business Review video on BrainSwarming:
https://hbr.org/video/3373616535001/brainswarming-because-brainstorming-doesnt-work

Harvard Business Review blog: Why We Can’t See What’s Right in Front of Us
https://hbr.org/2012/05/overcoming-functional-fixednes

Company: Innovation Accelerator, Inc.
https://www.innovationaccelerator.com/

BrainSwarming Software:
https://brainswarming.io/

Video of a Solution to Reducing Concussions in American Football Players:

Captain Sideways comic strip.
The Captain teaches youth how to be more innovative by looking at things from unusual perspectives (i.e., sideways).
https://sidewaysdiary.weebly.com/blog/1st-comic-strip

Link to paper mathematically proving that there is a limit to how innovative a computer can be.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0890060416000524

Here is a brief summary of the proof on Axios.com.
https://www.axios.com/theres-a-limit-to-computer-creativity-2427178561.html

EP 63: Coins to Vouchers and Staying Fit While You Sit

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We talk to two founders.

CEO of Coindrum Lukas Decker tells us of Coindrum, which provides airport self-service units that turn leftover coins into duty-free vouchers worth 110% of deposits.

Lukas tells us of his journey and how he had the radar on for an innovation. He discusses his mindset and how he made it all happen. http://www.coindrum.com/

Founder of Cubii Shivani Jain joins us to tell us how Cubii can help us. She tells us how ignorance can be an advantage when starting out and how her co-founders and her benefitted from the maker community and the help of others to forge Cubii.

For years, we’ve been told how ‘sitting is the new smoking’ and that prolonged sitting can increase your risk for cardiovascular disease, varicose veins and high blood pressure and cholesterol.

Recent studies suggest active sitting could be the solution. Active sitting has numerous health benefits including better circulation, core engagement, higher energy and productivity levels and improved posture.

https://mycubii.com/

EP 58: Natural born Entrepreneur – Jerry Kennelly

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Jerry Kennelly is one of Ireland’s original tech success stories. Jerry tells us how his childhood was key to his successful mindset. We talk about his parents’ business run from the home in Kerry and how their focus on craft, quality and customers informed his own working practices. He tells us of how his family built one of Ireland’s most successful regional papers “Kerry’s Eye” www.kerryseye.com, still in the family today.

Jerry tells us how to overcome the dark days of entrepreneurship and how focus and commitment led him to build Stockbyte, one of the world’s first royalty-free stock imagery websites. After the acquisition of Stockbyte Jerry tells us how he focused on not-for-profit ventures in entrepreneurship.

While he still continues to mentor and supports the entrepreneur community Jerry co-founder Junior Entrepreneur http://www.juniorentrepreneur.ie/,a phenomenal movement to instil the mindset and practices of entrepreneurship in children at a young age.

Finally, Jerry tells us of his current venture www.tweak.com, which democratizes design offering a similar model to that he built with Stockbyte and offering organizations an easy way to control and save costs on their design and creative process.

EP 56: A Pioneer in Machine Learning Breakthroughs on Ai, Education and The Future of Humanity

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Professor Naftali Tishby is a professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a Global leader in machine learning research and computational neuroscience and his numerous ex-students serve at key academic and industrial research positions all over the world.

In this week’s show, Naftali discusses his breakthrough in understanding how machines learn. He calls this the “bottleneck technique”.

During our chat, we draw parallels in how we humans learn and the lessons we can draw from his findings in how education might work in the future.

We go off on a tangent after we discuss how part of learning is forgetting. We explore the gifts of ADD and ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and how if understood early people can harness the gifts and thrive.

We discuss the future of humanity, the history of machine learning and the present of education.

It is a truly fascinating listen.

Some Interesting points:

4.21 – Then there was a mystery, what can be learned and how can they do it?

4.53
3 different directions:
How do we understand the behaviour or networks
What are the limits? What can be learned? – How do they do it? How much power needed etc.
How does the brain learn, animals and human

39.00
The machine learns like a human does?
Is it a framework to learn more?

41.00
The ADD gift

53.00
The future of Education?

1:01 Ai and the future?

1.06 Humanity must evolve with Ai

Also see:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-theory-cracks-open-the-black-box-of-deep-learning-20170921/

EP 55: Fail Fast, Fail Often

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We fear rejection, we care what others think, we fear failure, what if we did not?
Imagine the possibilities, maybe we would be in a job we actually like, maybe we would have written a best-selling novel, maybe we would have written Harry Potter. What is worse, our education and often our parenting teaches kids to fear failure and to fear exploration. As we discuss on the show some kids are fearful of “going outside the lines” and this continues in life.

We learn how comedian Chris Rock uses a fail fast method to win over his audiences. We learn how to use a “happiness map” and we learn lessons from pottery class.

Ryan Babineaux is author of ‘Fail Fast, Fail often’. He is CEO and founder of Happenstance Counseling http://www.happenstancecounseling.com/

Ryan is leading a Stanford research project that examines the work practices of masters in diverse fields—beer making, journalism, social entrepreneurship, engineering, long-distance running, mathematics, etc.He earned his M.Ed. in psychology and human development from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford University.

EP 54: Clothing made from Recycled Bottles?

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On this week’s innovation show we talk to Hamilton Perkins the founder and CEO of HPC, the Hamilton Perkins collection. Hamilton tells us how his passion to find the perfect bag led him to create it. Not only that, this former financial consultant ensured this bag was made from recycled materials and made HPC into a B corporation, which gives back as it earns. As an extra bonus use the coupon code INNOVATIONSHOW and save 10% on your first order.

Shop Hamilton Perkins Collection designer travel bags made from recycled plastic bottles and repurposed billboard vinyl lining. Free shipping & returns.

https://hamiltonperkins.com/

EP 47: Future of Travel: A Concorde, a Rail Gun, and an Air Hockey Table

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We talk to change maker Bibop Gresta, co-founder and chairman of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. 

Bibop tells us about his past as a teen tech whizz, managing a department of developers while a teenager in school. 

His subsequent stint at being a popstar and then an MTV presenter. 

After selling his company he moved to California in search of a mission with meaning. 

This meaning in fact found him, when he met his co-founder of Hyperloop Dirk Ahlborn. He is now chairman of what is dubbed the biggest startup in the world.

Hyperloop was made popular after an Elon Musk white paper outlining the possibility. It has been described as a cross between a Concorde, a rail gun, and an air hockey table.

That vision is now being realised by Bibop and a team of visionaries, scientists and contributors from all over the world.  

Hyperloop is always looking for collaborators and more can be found on this movement on www.hyperloop.global.

Growth Mindset Personified, ex-Lion, CEO and current Leadership Coach Dr. Phillip Matthews

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Power achiever Dr. Phillip Matthews is an ex-British and Irish Lion, an Irish Rugby captain, holds a PhD, has been a sales leader, MD, CEO and now focuses on executive coaching.

Growth Mindset is at the heart of Phillip’s work, but also in his heart. It is what drives him to continuous success and now he wants to pass on the framework so that others can succeed.

Inventor, Visionary, CEO, Grammy Voting Member

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Gene Fein is a serial entrepreneur, inventor and innovator. He tells us about his illustrious career from organizing gigs with Bob Dylan to developing a miracle product with CBD called Therajoy. We also talk about the pitfalls of innovation and change.

Ep 18 – CyberCrime and IoT Special – Smarttech, PwC, SwiftComply, Firmwave

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We talk to Ronan Murphy, CEO and founder of Smarttech, he tells us of some of the latest scams and raises our awareness of how to prevent being a victim. Pat Moran is PwC Head of Cybercrime & IT Forensics, he gives us some astonishing stats on cybercrime and gives us some practical, but excellent advice on how to prevent being a victim in work or even at home.

Michael O’Dwyer has a fantastic story to tell of how he has built a company using personal drive and government funding. He tells us about his company SwiftComply and gives some great advice for startups.

Finally, ex-Army officer and telecoms man Fintan McGovern tells us how he and the Firmwave team are rolling out a different network and conquering the business world. We talk cyborg chickens and connected bus shelters.

Laurie Winkless Author of Science and the City on Smart Cities, Driverless Cars and Data

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Technology, Innovation, IoT, Smart Cities, we chat to Laurie Winkless, Author of Science and the City

Episode 7 – Ian Paul on Innovation in Adult, James Corbett on VR, Garry Connolly on Host in Ireland

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Naughty America’s Ian Paul on Innovation in the Adult Industry, James Corbett on VR and Simvirtua, Garry Connolly on Host in Ireland and Collaboration.

AgriKids: Farm Safety Educational Platform, CEO Alma Jordan

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In 2014 30 people died on Farms in Ireland. In the United States a child dies every 3 days. Agrikids plans to change all that.

Find out more at http://www.agrikids.ie/our-story.php
Or download the Android app: http://bit.ly/AgriKidsGame

Dr. Alison Campbell KTI and Steven Lock Grassometer

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Dr Alison Campbell is Director of Knowledge Transfer Ireland, responsible for the knowledge transfer system. Steven Lock is an award-winning television producer, while producing a documentary on farming he spotted an opportunity and Grassometer was born.

Aer Aran founder Senator Padraig O’Ceidigh

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We have an inspirational chat with Aer Aran founder Padraig O’Ceidigh, we talk Leadership, Parenting, Grit and Failure. Padraig is the founder of Aer Arann and an independent politician, appointed as senator on 27 May 2016.

While Padraig is most known as founder of Aer Aran his story and roots go right back to a childhood where he was given the tools to succeed.

Seth Godin Innovation Interview

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We talk to the great Seth Godin in a warts and all chat about the state of the nation. We talk about his mindset, we discuss how his books have not dated and how they are as relevant today as they were ten years ago.

We talk about parenting, digital marketing and how the product IS the marketing in today’s world.

Well worth a listen.