DangerMouth: The Innovation Station

This episode was triggered by the inciteful review/final chapter of the book Champion Thinking by Simon Mundie which appeared in the April Issue of the Systematic Innovation Ezine (issue 277).
The theme of the book is that "success" in life, sport and innovation is held back by a series of common illusions/beliefs that need to be discarded.
 
The Ezine is available here: https://si-shop.org.uk/free-downloads/

In this episode the team welcome special guest Andy Brunskill, who shares his insights of how Green World Innovation techniques can be effective in the Red World of continuous improvement.
Find out more about Andy here:
https://sapartners.com/team/bio-andy-brunskill/

Every minute organisations across the globe are becoming more tightly coupled.
This exponentially increases the number of variables that might impact your plans, complexity balloons. instability in major nodes and the disruption of AI are tipping the world system into a chaotic state.
Old heuristics that worked in high complexity contexts aren't suited to a chaotic environment.
Leaders all over the world are painfully aware of the problem, but don't know who to turn to.
Darrell's next book, FutureProof highlights a method of charting a way through the chaos, by providing direction of travel and advice on girding your team of immutable humans with the adaptability and resilience to survive the ordeal ahead.
 

In this episode we welcome special guest Hilarie Owen author of the Book "In Search of Leaders", published 25 years ago and still so startlingly relevant, that Darrell featured it as Book of the Month in his March E-Zine.
There is a great deal of wisdom in this episode for those not addicted to the allure of simple answers to complex issues.

In 2020 by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini published the book Humanocracy. Mike and Darrell discuss whether this is an important tool in the increasingly difficult task of aligning people engaged in a common endeavour. 

In this episode Darrell, Shana and Mikey relate their experiences of being educated and consider ways in which the goals of the education system could be better aligned with ever changing requirements of todays society.

Misalignment between silos in an organisation is very common, very costly and a major reason why bold initiatives fail. 
In this episode Darrell, Shana and Mikey attempt to align themselves as they investigate whether the Theory of System Completeness will help them out.

A quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi sums up the long road to Indian Independence in one sentence "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win".
If in order to win/innovate you have to endure years of being ostracised, mocked and attacked, its going to be a very tough time.
In this episode the transatlantic trio examine the role of suffering in the innovation process, how it is important to have confidence that the goal is more than just a vanity project and that the timescale may be longer than you think.