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.
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.
A Thinkers50 special episode with Aidan McCullen, Alex Osterwalder, Howard Yu and Sangeet Paul Choudary exploring how AI reshapes business models, strategy and organisational leadership. A masterclass in reinvention, recorded just hours before each received major Thinkers50 honours.