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.
Gary Klein, renowned cognitive psychologist and author of Seeing What Others Don’t, joins Aidan McCullen to discuss how individuals and organizations can spot insights, avoid flawed mental models, and foster smarter decision-making. A masterclass in innovation and leadership.
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.
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.