The Innovation Show
Thoughts on Innovation, Change and Human Potential
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Forty of the Fattest Pigs
Undermining, the siege tactic of tunnelling under a wall and burning the props that hold it up. King John used it at Rochester in 1215, with the fat of forty pigs.
TL;DR: When armies couldn’t break a wall head-on, they dug under it instead...
How leaders tell a weed from a seed
Robert Burgelman has spent almost fifty years studying how companies renew themselves from the inside. Much of that time he spent inside Intel, and for years he taught strategy at Stanford alongside Andy Grove. This week he came back on the...
The Freeze Frame
One frame of a caterpillar tells you nothing about the butterfly.
TL;DR: Eight qualified coaches watched a fifteen-year-old Simon Kjær for six months, and none of them believed he had a future in soccer. Organisations misjudge young ideas...
David Bland Show Notes
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TL;DR DuPont ran 35 real growth ideas through a simple risk map and saved over $12M by stopping the weak ones early. The ideas that survived have generated about $24M so far. David Bland, who helped them build it, joined me on Epis...
STEM Skills to Stem Cells
TL;DR: The job title employers are told to hire for keeps changing. "Prompt engineer" was recommended by the World Economic Forum in January 2025 and written off by an economist in May. In IBM's surveys of executives, proficiency in STEM ha...
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Aidan McCullen is an Irish keynote speaker on innovation, reinvention and transformation, and the winner of the 2025 Thinkers50 Innovation Award.
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