The Innovation Show

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 first-hand work with companies our guest shows how it's done, and, reassuringly, how easy it is to get started. Chapter titles include 1. What’s the path forward? 2. Is bias training worthless? 3. We’re a meritocracy. Are you asking us to change that? 4. Why do some groups need to be politically savvier to succeed? 5. Are you saying that white men have it easy? I don’t feel privileged. 6. We cherish our culture. Can we retain that and still achieve DEI goals? 7. Can we make progress on DEI without getting all rigid and bureaucratic? 8. Women’s priorities change after having kids. Are you saying I should ignore that? 9. Isn’t it natural—and inevitable—that people who work harder go further? 10. If we hire more women and people of colour, won’t the DEI problem take care of itself? What does the CEO need to do to finally deliver on DEI goals? How can a company change who gets access to opportunities? (Hint: Only the CEO can) How can CDOs and HR get buy-in—and deliver— on DEI goals? How can HR and DEI departments work together to interrupt bias in basic business systems? How can individual managers help move the needle—and manage more effectively? We welcome the author of Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good, Joan C. Williams, welcome to the show.  Find Joan here: https://joancwilliams.com Find bias interrupters here: https://biasinterrupters.org

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 to the very core of who they are as human beings, head coaches can get out of their own way and achieve all-new levels of personal performance. We welcome author  of "The Tough Stuff: Seven Hard Truths About Being a Head Coach" Cody Royle Find Cody here: https://www.codyroyle.com

Damon Centola, a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Change: How to Make Big Things Happen," discusses the intricacies of social change. He reveals how social networks shape our responses to new ideas far more than mere viral contagion. Centola shares fascinating insights on collective action, emphasizing the importance of grassroots movements from the civil rights era to Black Lives Matter. He also explores how redundancy in connections can lead to effective behavior change, reshaping our understanding of innovation spread in the digital age.

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 the principle of neuroplasticity to transform your daily life Harness straightforward strategies to learn new behaviours Turn these behaviours into lasting habits and new skills Understand the latest developments in brain-enhancement Create better strategies for team innovation and problem solving   We welcome the author of Sort Your Brain Out: Boost Your Performance, Manage Stress and Achieve More, Dr Jack Lewis, welcome to the show Find Jack here:  https://www.drjack.co.uk Brain man VR: https://www.brainmanvr.co.uk

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 the principle of neuroplasticity to transform your daily life Harness straightforward strategies to learn new behaviours Turn these behaviours into lasting habits and new skills Understand the latest developments in brain-enhancement Create better strategies for team innovation and problem solving   We welcome the author of Sort Your Brain Out: Boost Your Performance, Manage Stress and Achieve More, Dr Jack Lewis, welcome to the show   Find Jack here:    https://www.brainmanvr.co.uk   Brain man VR: https://www.brainmanvr.co.uk

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 machines and accelerated in 1995 with the commercial internet. BANK 3.0: Banking when and where you needed it as redefined by the emergence of the smartphone in 2007, and accelerated with a shift to mobile payments, P2P and challenger banks built on top of mobile; channel agnostic. BANK4.0: Embedded, ubiquitous banking delivered in real-time through the technology layer. Dominated by real-time, contextual experiences, frictionless engagement and a smart, AI-based advice layer. Largely digital omni-channel with zero requirements for physical distribution. We welcome Founder of Moven Host of Breaking Banks Radio author of multiple titles but today we focus on Bank 4.0, Banking Everywhere, Never at a Bank Brett King. Find Brett here: http://brettking.com

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 add enough value, people will eventually say "yes." This reflex leads us down a path of adding features and benefits to our ideas or increasing the sizzle of our messaging - all in the hope of getting others on board. Our guest calls this instinct the "Fuel-based mindset." The Fuel-based mindset explains so much of what we do, from adding countless trivial features to software to bolting a sixth blade onto a shaving razor. By focusing on Fuel, innovators neglect the other half of the equation – the psychological Frictions that oppose change. Frictions create drag on innovation. And though they are rarely considered, overcoming these Frictions is essential for bringing new ideas into the world. In his book, Our guest highlights the four Frictions that operate against innovation. It is a pleasure to welcome the author of The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance That Awaits New Ideas David Schonthal    Find David here: https://www.davidschonthal.com

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: http://www.cukier.com @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: http://www.cukier.com @kncukier https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/05/11/imaginative-framing-is-the-key-to-problem-solving  

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 processed on Visa’s networks totalled $138.3 trillion dollars and the year saw some 3.4 billion Visa cards in operation. Our guest is the man who imagined this reality, who had a once-deemed-impossible vision 52 years ago, a vision which has become a concrete reality today.  He is a man who has a different view on what the next 50 years can deliver, but that vision will require a radical shift in mindset for every single one of us. His book, "One from Many" is much more than the story of the scarcely believable events that brought Visa into being and led to its extraordinary success.  It is also the story of an introverted, small-town child, passionate to read, dream, and wander the woods, the youngest of six, born to parents with but an eighth-grade education.  It is a story of crushing confinement and interminable boredom in school and church, along with sharp, rising awareness of the chasm between how institutions profess to function  and how they actually do; what they claim to do for people and what they actually do to them. It is about three compelling questions arising from that awareness that came to dominate his life: Why are institutions, everywhere, whether political, commercial, or social, increasingly unable to manage their affairs? Why are individuals, everywhere, increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the institutions of which they are part? Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray? This is the story of a lifelong search for the answer to those questions, which had everything to do with the formation of Visa. It is a story of harbouring four beasts that inevitably devour their keeper; ego, envy, avarice, and ambition; and of a great bargain, trading ego for humility, envy for equanimity, avarice for time, and ambition for liberty. It is a story of events impossible to foresee, that sent (a man of 92) him at 55 on (a journey) an odyssey more improbable than Visa, and infinitely more important. At 91, he is still in the midst of that odyssey Beyond all else, it is a story of the future; of something trying to happen; of a four-hundred-year-old age rattling in its deathbed as another struggles to be born.  It is not just the story of today’s guest, although he is central to it. It is not just your story, or my story, (although you} although we are both in it. It is a story of everyone  A story of us all. It is such an immense honour to welcome the founder and CEO Emeritus of Visa and author of the pioneering work "The Birth of the Chaordic Age" and its updated version "One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization", Dee Hock