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.
A single developer sold an $80 million company to Wix in six months. In this Kyndryl Institute panel, Rita McGrath, Alexander Osterwalder, Ismail Amla and Usman Sheikh explain how AI is rewiring organisations — killing the billable hour, flattening power, and shifting work from hours to outcomes.
Bruce Vojak closes our three-part Serial Innovators series with the playbook for finding and protecting breakthrough talent: the five core traits to look for, the four engagement filters that actually identify a serial innovator, why HR and AI hiring screens filter them out, and the manager behaviours — air cover, patience, no “J work” — that keep them from walking out the door.
Most innovators believe a great idea will sell itself. Bruce Vojak, co-author of Serial Innovators, joins Aidan McCullen to reveal why that belief will get you fired — and how the rare few who repeatedly deliver breakthrough innovations inside mature firms actually navigate the organisational politics that stop everyone else cold.
Bruce Vojak returns for a short bonus episode on the Hourglass Model — the descriptive state diagram he and his co-authors built to explain how serial innovators actually move from a customer problem to a launched product, without the prescriptive rigidity of stage-gate.
Creativity is not a gift. It is a skill. Jeff and Staney DeGraff return for part two of the DeGraff trilogy with The Creative Mindset — and the six-step CREATE method (Clarify, Replicate, Elaborate, Associate, Translate, Evaluate) that turns ordinary teams into compounding inventors.
TL;DR: The traits that make founders and leaders dangerous (conviction, taste, doing things properly) can […]
In this live episode of The Innovation Show, Harvard Business School’s Teresa Amabile joins Aidan McCullen to explore the emotional, psychological, and structural dimensions of retirement. Drawing on rich research, they unpack the four key tasks for navigating retirement, the role of purpose, and how organizations can better support this critical life transition.
“A peak always conceals a treacherous valley.” — Shigetaka Komori, former CEO of Fujifilm Financial markets, like organisations, […]
“Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.” — Rumi For 32 years, fourteen-year-old Stephanie […]