

The Innovation Show
The Innovation Show
A Global weekly show interviewing authors to inspire, educate and inform the business world and the curious. Presented by the author of "Undisruptable", this Global show speaks of something greater beyond innovation, disruption and technology. It speaks to the human need to learn: how to adapt to and love a changing world. It embraces the spirit of constant change, of staying receptive, of always learning.
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Oct 31, 2022 • 35min
Supertrends Part 2 with Lars Tvede
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 forecasting company Supertrends. Throughout his career, he has found success through his uncanny ability to predict the trends that will take our world forward. We all need to understand the future – from financial executives, industry leaders and entrepreneurs to journalists and politicians – we will all benefit from Supertrends. We welcome back the author of Supertrends: 50 Things you Need to Know About the Future, Lars Tvede

Oct 25, 2022 • 1h 2min
Banks and Fintech on Platform Economies with Paolo Sironi
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 cornering the industry into unsustainable business models looking for hyper-scale. This often conflicts with the size of the jurisdictions in which they operate, the constraints imposed by regulations, and the low elasticity of demand in persistently low-interest rate environments. Technology has been largely seen as an opportunity to march ahead of the progressive evaporation of revenues. Yet, is this sustainable?” Compelling stuff and only a taster of what is to come. It is a pleasure to welcome the man who poses such questions, the author of “Banks and Fintech on Platform Economies: Contextual and Conscious Banking “ Paolo Sironi, welcome to the show

Oct 24, 2022 • 1h 10min
Supertrends Part 1 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 forecasting company Supertrends. Throughout his career, he has found success through his uncanny ability to predict the trends that will take our world forward. We all need to understand the future – from financial executives, industry leaders and entrepreneurs to journalists and politicians – we will all benefit from Supertrends. We welcome the author of Supertrends: 50 Things you Need to Know About the Future, Lars Tvede Find Lars here: https://www.larstvede.com/book/supertrends/

Oct 19, 2022 • 13min
Top 10 Innovation Shortcuts Company Leaders Should Avoid with Tendayi Viki
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: How Innovators Lead Transformation", Tendayi Viki, welcome back. Find Tendayi here: https://tendayiviki.com/the-top-10-innovation-shortcuts-company-leaders-should-avoid/ 00:01:49 Shortcut #1. There Is No Innovation Strategy 00:02:42 Shortcut #2. The CEO Has No Time 00:03:20 Shortcut #3. We Are Working On Only Two Ideas 00:04:07 Shortcut #4. Innovation Has No Power 00:04:57 Shortcut #5. We Don’t Want To Talk To The Core Business 00:05:39 Shortcut #6. We Reward Hitting Revenue Targets 00:06:26 Shortcut #7. Innovation Teams Work Part Time 00:08:39 Shortcut #8. We Want Detailed Business Plans 00:09:07 Shortcut #9. There Is No Innovation Skills Building 00:09:49 Shortcut #10. An Excessive Focus On Ideation

Oct 18, 2022 • 49min
Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why with Simon LeVay
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 in individuals destined to become gay adults as compared with their same-sex heterosexual peers. Differences in genes, sex hormones, and their interactions with the developing brain are what cause this divergence. We welcome the author of "Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation" - Simon LeVay Find Simon Here: www.simonlevay.com

Oct 14, 2022 • 9min
Rita McGrath: What Case Studies Get Wrong
Our guest on today’s Innovation Byte is the brilliant author, speaker, consultant, founder of Valize and Professor with Columbia Business School Rita McGrath welcome to the show. 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:14 The Survivorship Bias of Innovation 00:01:08 Blockbuster v Netflix 00:02:53 Kodak Story 00:04:29 Nokia Story 00:07:13 Captive to Customers

Oct 10, 2022 • 1h 3min
Hate and the Brain with Professor Matt Williams
“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.” ― Edward O. Wilson Today, we talk about Hate and The Brain and ask the question, are we wired to hate? The author "The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it", Professor Matt Williams enlightens us.

Oct 7, 2022 • 40min
Algorithms of Hate with Matthew Williams
Are our brains wired to hate? Is social media to blame for an increase in hateful abuse? With hate on the rise, what can we do to turn the tide? Drawing on twenty years of pioneering research - as well as his own experience as a hate-crime victim - our guest, a world-renowned criminologist explores one of the pressing issues of our age. Today we discuss the role of big tech, algorithms and echo chambers. We welcome the author of The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it, Matthew Williams 00:01:18 Algorithms, “Tay” and the Internet Censorship 00:10:20 How Regulation Can Help 00:21:33 Bot Traffic, Fake Accounts 00:25:43 Facebook Influence in Myanmar 00:32:03 Trigger Events and Predictive Events 00:33:45 Wisdom of The Crowd 00:37:37 What to do when you see Hate Speech

Oct 5, 2022 • 15min
Five Fatal Habits of Innovation with Geoff Marlow
The Five Fatal Habits: Why most organisations fail at innovation and agility with Geoff Marlow Find the pdf here: https://www.geoffmarlow.com/resources/

Oct 3, 2022 • 1h 1min
The Science of Hate with Matthew Williams
Are our brains wired to hate? Is social media to blame for an increase in hateful abuse? What can we do with hate on the rise to turn the tide? Drawing on twenty years of pioneering research - as well as his own experience as a hate-crime victim - our guest, a world-renowned criminologist explores one of the pressing issues of our age.
We welcome the author of The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it. Find Matt here: https://hatelab.net Timestamps: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:12 Matt’s Hate Crime Origin Story 00:11:15 The Benefit of Criminology as an Intersectional Discipline 00:16:12 Criminology is Based on a study of Prejudices 00:26:35 Intergroup Hate, A Hierarchy of Hatred 00:34:29 Gordon Alport and Push v Pull Prejudice 00:45:43 Statistics of Hate