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 lack confidence or make mistakes? Third, do you grant others maximum autonomy to contribute in their own way as they demonstrate their ability to deliver results? Fourth, do you consistently invite others to challenge the status quo in order to make things better, and are you personally prepared to be wrong based on the humility and learning mindset you have developed? In large measure, the way you answer these questions will define the way you value human beings and your relationships with them. It will define the way you draw people out or shut them down, create confidence or induce fear, encourage or discourage. It will determine how you lead and influence others and yourself? We welcome back for part 2 the author of “The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation" Timothy Clark More about Tim: https://www.leaderfactor.com/team

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 lack confidence or make mistakes? Third, do you grant others maximum autonomy to contribute in their own way as they demonstrate their ability to deliver results? Fourth, do you consistently invite others to challenge the status quo in order to make things better, and are you personally prepared to be wrong based on the humility and learning mindset you have developed? In large measure, the way you answer these questions will define the way you value human beings and your relationships with them. It will define the way you draw people out or shut them down, create confidence or induce fear, encourage or discourage. It will determine how you lead and influence others and yourself? We welcome the author of “The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation" Timothy Clark More about Tim: https://www.leaderfactor.com/team

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 creativity happen at work.   Meant to be used as a manual which you can draw upon at the office, in business, or in your career, this book is all about teaching you how to awaken your long-lost creativity in order to see the world as it can be, not as it is.   We welcome the author of “The Creator Mindset: 92 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability" Nir Bashan Find Nir, well, here: https://www.nirbashan.com

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 creativity happen at work.   Meant to be used as a manual which you can draw upon at the office, in business, or in your career, this book is all about teaching you how to awaken your long-lost creativity in order to see the world as it can be, not as it is.   We welcome the author of “The Creator Mindset: 92 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability" Nir Bashan More about Nir: https://www.nirbashan.com

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 research to help us succeed in beating bad habits. With the help of today’s book, not only does he help us to understand just how habits are formed and maintained but he equips us with 5 essential tools to help us change our behaviour for the better and, what's more, influence the behaviour of others at work and at home. These same tools can also be used to help people around us change their behaviours, and this book shows us how. It is a great instruction manual for influencing others.   It is a pleasure to welcome the author of “Smart Change: Break the habits that hold you back and form the habits of success”, Art Markman.   More about Art here: http://smartchangebook.com

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 beating bad habits. With the help of today’s book, not only does he help us to understand just how habits are formed and maintained but he equips us with 5 essential tools to help us change our behaviour for the better and, what's more, influence the behaviour of others at work and at home. These same tools can also be used to help people around us change their behaviours, and this book shows us how. It is a great instruction manual for influencing others. It is a pleasure to welcome the author of  “Smart Change: Break the habits that hold you back and form the habits of success”, Art Markman, welcome to the show   More about Art here: http://smartchangebook.com

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 or minority belief in conspiracies, but much more general and widespread misperceptions about individual, social and political realities. Do you eat too much sugar?  Is violence in the world increasing or decreasing?  What proportion of your country are Muslim?  What does it cost to raise a child?  How much do we need to save for retirement?  How much tax do the rich pay?    When we estimate the answers to these fundamental questions that directly affect our lives, we tend to be vastly wrong, irrespective of how educated we are.  Today’s book - informed by over ten exclusive major polling studies by IPSOS across 40 countries - asks why in the age of the internet, where information should be more accessible than ever, we remain so poorly informed.  It is a pleasure to welcome the author of The Perils of Perception: Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything, Bobby Duffy, welcome to the show.

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 Brave at Work we welcome Jim Detert. More about Jim: https://jimdetert.com

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 “yes to the mess” that is today’s hurried, harried, yet enormously innovative and fertile world of work. Today’s guest describes how, like skilled jazz players, leaders need to master the art of unlearning, perform and experiment simultaneously, and take turns soloing and supporting each other. And with examples that range from manufacturing to the military to high-tech, he illustrates how organizations must take an inventive approach to crisis management, economic volatility, and all the rapidly evolving realities of our globally connected world. It is a pleasure to welcome the author of: Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz, Frank Barrett, welcome to the show. More about Frank here: https://www.yestothemess.org

For a moment late in 2018, one bitcoin, which physically amounts to a few electrons blipping on a tiny bit of silicon, was worth $20,000—the same as a pound of gold. Libertarian technologists who believed bitcoin would be the foundation of a new world order saw the moment as an apotheosis. Everyone else saw a bubble. Everyone else was right, and the bubble burst. But bitcoin survived, and the battle for its soul rages on. Today’s book drops us into the unfolding drama, tracing the rise, fall, and rebirth of cryptocurrency through the experiences of major players across the globe. We follow Silicon Valley entrepreneur Brian Armstrong and the turbulent rocket ride of his startup, Coinbase, as he tries to take bitcoin mainstream while fighting off hackers, thieves, and zealots. Our guest today keenly observes the world of virtual currencies and what happens when startups try to disrupt the world of high finance. Clear explanations of crypto technology are woven into an amazing landscape full of meme-fueled startup hijinks, hacking (so much hacking!), shady investors, government investigations, billionaire bros and their Lambos, and closed-door meetings with Jamie Dimon. This is the surprising story of the origins of cryptocurrency and how it is changing money forever. We welcome The author of Kings of Crypto One Startup’s Quest to Take Cryptocurrency out of Silicon Valley and onto Wall Street Jeff John Roberts