The team welcome back DangerMouth regular Jolly Contrarian Olly Buxton to ponder what goes wrong when the fuzzy trail of recent history is brutally cleaved with the sword of justice.

In this episode Darrell is squarely in his happy place as we welcome special guest, Conductor, Soprano and Academic Yajie Ye to discuss the conjunction of innovation and classical music and the skills needed to thrive and survive in time of rapid change.

Find out more about Yajie Ye on her excellent website: https://www.yajieye.com/

In this episode we welcome special guest Rob Hygate, serial innovator and founder of eWATER a supplier of clean water systems in Africa.

The conversation ranges from the genesis of his book "The Logical God: An AI Stewardship" the perennial difficulties of promoting good ideas that break with tradition and a great deal besides.

References:

eWATER

The Logical God: An AI Stewardship

Reid Hoffman on Block Chain

Its over 50 years since Robert Pirsig's book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZAM) was published.  ZAM is the story of Robert Pirsig's struggle with various paradoxes, a story with no tidy endings. In this era of omni-crisis the questions raised are more relevant than ever and hold clues for the innovator who wants to integrate Mythos and Logos and strive for Quality. 

This episode also references the sequel to ZAM, Lila a work just as profound, one well work seeking out by fans of ZAM.

Following on from Darrell's Innovation Workshop based on Pirsig's work, in a second ZAM related episode, Darrell, Mikey and Shana bravely venture forth into the zone of abstract ideas. 

In their forthcoming book "1%ers" Shana and Darrell argue that we humans need to restore the balance between science and the humanities to thrive in the age of AI. Step one in this process is to shake off the over reliance left brain reductionist thinking. This new mindset requires overcoming ingrained habits.

This episode is a discussion about how to change your mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIbLQQ1i56Y&t=4s 

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.