Business cases are a fantasy, says Alex Osterwalder. What you can measure is the evidence they could work. The Strategyzer CEO and Business Model Canvas creator shares his evidence-based innovation playbook: five levels of evidence, scored across desirability, feasibility and viability, that show leaders which projects to fund and which to retire. Part one of a three-part series.
The project driven organization is Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez’s answer to a world where agile is no longer enough. The creator of the project economy joins Aidan McCullen to explore why EY’s Project Everest and Nike’s digital transformation stumbled, why leaders must launch less and finish more, and how “are you crazy?” projects create the future.
Rita McGrath and Sangeet Paul Choudary join Aidan McCullen to explain structural uncertainty — the moment the game itself, not just the play, becomes the thing in question. They cover transient advantage, network effects, rule makers versus rule takers, and how to use AI without outsourcing your thinking.
Keith McCandless shares liberating structures: 43 simple patterns that engage every voice, fix the five conventional meeting formats, and unleash a culture of innovation from the frontline to the C-suite.
AI is dissolving the consulting pyramid. Usman Sheikh of High Output Ventures explains the intelligence core — the feedback loop that turns firms from pyramids into rings — plus the AI discount, judgment-shaped artifacts, and how to build the next talent bench.
Innovation isn’t a gift — it’s a process. Carla Johnson, author of RE:Think Innovation, shares her Wheel of Innovation: five steps to new, great and reliable ideas. Hear how Big Ass Fans, the CDC’s zombie campaign and a Cisco router love story prove anyone can learn to innovate — and pitch ideas that stick.
Carliss Baldwin and Kim Clark, authors of Design Rules, reveal the power of modularity: how IBM’s System/360 invented platform strategy, why modularising your product invites competitors into existence, and what it all means for AI, workflows and modular organisations like Haier.
Only 2% of people are narcissists — but roughly 16% of CEOs are. Jennifer Chatman explains why narcissistic leadership gets mistaken for vision, how to spot it, and how to protect your culture from its sticky after-effects.
Author Geoffrey Cain takes Aidan McCullen inside Steve Jobs in Exile — the NeXT years of vengeance, sabotage and failure that quietly built the Apple comeback.
Geoffrey Cain reveals the untold story of Steve Jobs in Exile: fired from Apple in 1985, sued by his own company, three years from bankruptcy at NeXT — and how those failures forged the leader who saved Apple. Part 1 of 2.