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.
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Bruce Vojak, co-author of Serial Innovators, explains why roughly 1 in 500 employees inside a large mature firm — with no formal mandate, often almost fired — create most of the breakthrough products that fund everything else.
Posted 6 months ago Tagged AI failure rate AI strategy Aidan McCullen Alex Osterwalder Business Model Innovation business model transformation containerisation analogy Digital Transformation enterprise reinvention exploration exploitation GenAI projects Howard Yu industry reshuffling Innovation Culture Innovation Show X Kyndryl leadership vision learning engines modular organisations organisational fluidity Platform Strategy resource allocation Sangeet Paul Choudary sensing to sensemaking strategic foresight Strategy Execution Thinkers50 venture-style innovation
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.
Posted 7 months ago Tagged AI and Humanity Aidan McCullen Aidan McCullen Podcast Artificial Intelligence Artificial Life Biology and Computing Code and Creativity Coding and Philosophy Digital Language Evolution and AI Future of Technology innovation podcast Philosophy of Technology Sam Arbesman Samuel Arbesman Interview Simulation Hypothesis Technology and Society The Innovation Show The Magic of Code Thinkers50 Thinkers50 Innovation Award
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.