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.
What if innovation doesn’t come from alignment—but from constructive conflict? In this episode of The Innovation Show, Aidan McCullen explores The Innovation Code with Jeff and Staney DeGraff, revealing how breakthrough ideas emerge when opposing perspectives collide. Learn the four innovation archetypes—Artist, Engineer, Athlete, and Sage—and how to harness tension to drive creativity, adaptability, and long-term success.
What if negotiation wasn’t about winning—but about fairness? In this episode, Barry Nalebuff explains the Split the Pie method, a principled approach to negotiation that focuses on creating value and dividing it equally. Discover how to avoid arbitrary bargaining and use data, logic, and game theory to reach fair outcomes.
Classic Enhanced Audio Episode: Scott Galloway on Algorithms, Tech Giants, and the Retail Apocalypse
Scott Galloway, NYU Stern Professor and bestselling author of The Four, discusses the future of media and retail. In this classic episode, Galloway unpacks platform dominance, the retail apocalypse, voice technology, and how big tech is rewriting the rules of advertising, subscriptions, and data intelligence.
In this explosive episode from Harvard Business School, Paul Nunes—co-author of Big Bang Disruption—explains why traditional S-curves are collapsing and how businesses can thrive in a world of hyper-speed innovation. Learn how to manage multiple S-curves, avoid catastrophic success, and orchestrate innovation in a networked economy.
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.
Michael Raynor explains why most strategies fail and how CEOs can fix them, exploring the RAP model, BCE’s diversification, and lessons in strategy.
Manu Kapur joins The Innovation Show to discuss his book Productive Failure, showing how failure fuels deeper learning, creativity, and adaptability in education, business, and life.