In this episode, Aidan McCullen dives into the turbulent trends shaping our world with futurists Bob Johansen and Jamais Cascio, co-authors of “Navigating the Age of Chaos.” They explore the BANI framework—Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear, Incomprehensible—and how leaders can respond with resilience, empathy, and strategic foresight.
On this episode of The Innovation Show, we welcome Chuck House, serial intrapreneur, author of Permission Denied, and former executive at Hewlett-Packard.
Chuck shares hard-won lessons from inside one of the world’s most influential tech companies—revealing what it really takes to innovate from within. From helping pioneer the first commercial computer graphics display to earning HP’s only-ever Medal of Defiance, Chuck’s story is both a cautionary tale and a masterclass in intrapreneurial resilience.
Hosted by Aidan McCullen, Thinkers50 Award recipient for Innovation and keynote speaker based in Ireland.
🎧 Highlights include:
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Surviving and thriving as an intrapreneur
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Navigating organisational resistance
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Why engineers must meet customers
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Leadership in uncertain times
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Insights for today’s innovation leaders
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Aidan McCullen and Samuel Arbesman dive into code as a humanistic “superpower,” biology–computation parallels, artificial life, and the simulation hypothesis—tempered by humility and curiosity.
Author Samuel Arbesman joins Aidan McCullen to unpack why today’s technologies are often beyond human understanding. From systemic failures to the burden of knowledge, this episode explores the complexity of modern systems—and how to navigate them with intellectual humility.
What if everything you know is slowly becoming outdated? In this eye-opening episode, Samuel Arbesman, author of The Half-Life of Facts, explores how knowledge decays over time, why scientific truths shift, and how we can stay ahead by understanding the patterns of information change.
Why did Adobe fail to outpace Figma despite cloud dominance? Howard Yu and Sangeet Paul Choudary join Aidan McCullen to explore disruption in the AI age and how your business can leap forward before it’s too late.
Prof. Manu Kapur joins Aidan McCullen for part 3 of our Innovation Show series on “productive failure.” Discover why initial struggle fosters deeper learning, how to design for failure in education and beyond, and how to unlock insights through cognitive dissonance.
Simon Hill, author of Expected Value (xV), reveals a powerful framework to measure the true impact of innovation. Learn how to avoid innovation theatre, kill zombie projects, and align creativity with real business value through xV’s blend of confidence, predicted value, time sensitivity, and strategic fit.
Michael Raynor explains why most strategies fail and how CEOs can fix them, exploring the RAP model, BCE’s diversification, and lessons in strategy.
In Part 2 of my conversation with Manu Kapur, author of Productive Failure, we explore the science behind learning from failure, including the Four A’s framework, variability in learning, and why struggle fuels adaptability in today’s fast-changing world.