The Innovation Show
Thoughts on Innovation, Change and Human Potential
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The Corporate Appendix
Healthy at the time of removal.
TL;DR From Darwin onwards, the appendix was written off as an evolutionary leftover. Today, some researchers think it shelters the bacteria that reseed the gut after an illness has depleted it. Other parts o...
The Adults in the Room: Congrats, You’re Fired
The adults in the room arrive with a tape measure and a clipboard, and the man who built the bench is already packing his box.
TL;DR Growing companies, and the investors and boards behind them, bring in professional managers the way doctor...
Alex Osterwalder's four artifacts, the Value Stack, and the full reading list
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AI produces strong value proposition work only when you feed it evidence. Alex Osterwalder names four artifacts to build first, previews a new tool called the Value Stack, and argues that marketers and product managers are turning in...
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...
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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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