The Uncertainty Mindset with Vaughn Tan changes how organizations hire, set goals, and motivate team members and leads organizations to work in highly unconventional ways.
The title of Aristotle’s “Politics” literally means “the things concerning the city”. It is the origin of the modern English word politics. In the book, he tells the story of a 7th century BC tyrant named Thrasybulus. Thrasybulus asked his fellow oppressor, Periander of Corinth for advice on how he should govern his people. Without uttering a word, Periander walked over to a grove of poppies and lopped off their flowering heads. The message was clear âdo away with eminent citizensâ and “don’t let them grow above their station.” This is (one of) the origins of the term Tall Poppy Syndrome. Tall Poppy Syndrome refers to the mindset where those people who stick their head above the parapet are resented, criticized, and cut down.
Humility is the New Smart is his emotions book.
Hyper-Learning is his behavioural and philosophy book.Â
Learn or Die is his science book.
It is always a pleasure to welcome a great friend of the Innovation show , Ed Hess.
I am preparing a workshop for a client designed for a group of newly minted leaders. I want to demonstrate the differences between leaders and managers. However, I also want to highlight that being a leader and manager is also contextual, in certain cases we need to be more “managerial” (or theory X) in our approach while in other scenarios, we need to exercise our leadership skills (theory Y). Beyond these contextual situations, we must be aware that we manage things, but we lead people. Furthermore, when we operate in a world where both the problem and solution are known, management is useful. However, when we live in an unpredictable world, our inner leader must emerge.
We have the real pleasure of exploring what it was like trying to innovate from within Kodak with none other than the Inventor of the Digital Camera – Steve Sasson.We discuss so many aspects of Innovation and the struggle to let go of a successful business model.
Disrupting Class:
How Disruptive Innovation
Will Change the Way the World Learns with Michael B. Horn
This is “the elephant in the brain”.Â
Such an introspective taboo makes it hard for us to think clearly about our nature and the explanations for our behaviour. The aim of this book, then, is to confront our hidden motives directly – to track down the darker, unexamined corners of our psyches and blast them with floodlights.
It encourages you to integrate both wonder and rigour into your daily life in order to produce new and novel products, services, and experiences that deliver greater value to your community and your organization.
To this end, youâll gain three major tools from this book:
Catalyzing inquiry
Integrating improvisation,
and elevating intuition.
Itâs a pleasure to welcome the author of How to Lead a Quest
A handbook for pioneering executives, the Arch-Wizard of Ambiguity himself, Dr Jason Fox, welcome to the show
Incremental improvement is no longer sufficient in helping organizations navigate the complexity, uncertainty, and volatility of todayâs world. Our guest today explores how to create non-linear, dramatic change in organizations. He explores the emerging science of change that teaches us about how to build organizations â from businesses to governments â that change and adapt rapidly.  It is great pleasure to welcome the author of “Change: How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times”, John Kotter.
More about John: https://www.kotterinc.com
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