A Thinkers50 special episode with Aidan McCullen, Alex Osterwalder, Howard Yu and Sangeet Paul Choudary exploring how AI reshapes business models, strategy and organisational leadership. A masterclass in reinvention, recorded just hours before each received major Thinkers50 honours.
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Discover how leaders can navigate complexity using BANI+ and VUCA+ frameworks. Bob Johansen and Jamais Cascio join Aidan McCullen to explore empathy, ethical AI, and future-ready thinking.
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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.
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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.
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What if everything you know is slowly becoming outdated?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.
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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.
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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.
Posted 3 months ago Tagged Adaptive Learning Innovation Manu Kapur Productive Failure
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.
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In this episode of The Innovation Show, Philip Atkinson — beekeeper, organizational coach, and author of Bee Wise — shares how lessons from the hive can transform leadership, teamwork, and innovation.
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Startups like Figma disrupt giants like Adobe not just through technology, but by reshaping mindsets. In this episode, bestselling author Sangeet Paul Choudary joins Aidan McCullen to explore how AI, cloud-first models, and unlearning are transforming the future of work and the knowledge economy.