Rob Fitzpatrick is author of “The Mom Test, How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you”
His book details how customer conversations go wrong and how we can do better.

EP 230: The Corporate Startup: How established companies can create successful innovation ecosystems with Dan Toma
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Dan Toma Innovation Labs Startup Labs The Corporate Startup
There is now more pressure on established companies to innovate. The challenge most companies face is how to develop new products for new markets, while managing their core business at the same time.Β
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Normalacy Bias
What is Normalcy Bias and how does it impact Innovation? What is an askhole?

EP 228: Create the Future and the Innovation Handbook: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking, Jeremy Gutsche
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Create the Future and the Innovation Handbook: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking Jeremy Gutsche
In our era of AI, rapid change, disruption, and possibility, there are so many great opportunities within our grasp. However, smart, successful people consistently miss out. Their capabilities are limited by seven traps, and they rely on and repeat past decisions.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Altruism Collaboration Dr Robert Hogan E.O. Wilson
Our evolutionary history reveals a slow progression from selfishness and competition to cooperation and collaboration. With every cycle of evolution, we will see increased collaboration and altruism. If we do not evolve this way, we will see increased social carnage, destruction of our planet and the demise of our species.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Dr Robert Hogan Hogan Assessments Robert Hogan Humility
Robert Hogan developed one of the globe’s leading personality assessments to identify the 11 personality scales that cause leaders to fail time and time again.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged βIn the long history of humankind (and animal kind Ants and Innovation Blackberry Innovation Failure Jim Balsillie Jim Balslllie Quote Diversified species of ant uses chemical communication to inform other ants not to explore the same space multiple times. too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.β who made of virtue of their lack of diversification once saying: βWe are a very poorly diversified portfolio. It either goes to the moon or it crashes to the earth.β
Ants have many lessons to teach humans about surviving change, including innovation lessons, lessons in collaboration and organisational structure.

EP 226: CLEVER: The Six Strategic Drivers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution with Alessandro Lanteri
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Alessandro Lanteri Artificial Intelligence Change CLEVER Exponential Growth Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here. As emerging technologies like AI and blockchain become ubiquitous, they will unleash unprecedented levels of disruption.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Communication Skills Communication: How to Connect with Anyone Gill Hasson
Innovators need to communicate their concepts.
Organisations have 5 generations working together in the workplace.
We must be able to challenge ideas.
Gill Hasson is an expert in communication and shares some tips.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Alex Osterwalder Innovation Innovation Management Leadership Transformation
We need to spread our bets when we explore with innovation. We need leadership to support innovation initiatives.