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Is Agenda Theatre Ruining Your Meetings? with Dr Ashley Whillans Nov 07, 2022

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While you might assume that detailed agendas improve your meetings, they may have exactly the opposite effect. This is because many employees unwittingly engage in a practice we call agenda theatre: They sink time and effort into agendas that create the appearance of effective meetings, without actually improving how meetings are run. What drives this counterproductive behaviour — and what should meeting leaders do instead?

Dr Ashley Whillans tells us what we do.

Find Ashley's work here, including her HBR article: https://ashleywhillans.com/author/

Don't Let Hierarchy Stifle Innovation with Timothy R. Clark Nov 04, 2022

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Innovation Byte: Don't Let Hierarchy Stifle Innovation with Timothy R. Clark Much of the know-how required for innovation comes from the bottom of the organization. Yet many non-management employees consider innovation outside the scope of their jobs.

Coffee and the Brain with Helena Boschi Nov 01, 2022

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The first in our new series called Brain Bytes where we pose one question about the brain to Dr Helena Boschi, the author of Why We Do What We Do

Supertrends Part 2 with Lars Tvede Oct 31, 2022

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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

Banks and Fintech on Platform Economies with Paolo Sironi Oct 25, 2022

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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

Supertrends Part 1 with Lars Tvede Oct 24, 2022

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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/

Top 10 Innovation Shortcuts Company Leaders Should Avoid with Tendayi Viki Oct 19, 2022

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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

Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why with Simon LeVay Oct 18, 2022

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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

Rita McGrath: What Case Studies Get Wrong Oct 14, 2022

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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

Hate and the Brain with Professor Matt Williams Oct 10, 2022

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"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.

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