The Innovation Show

It's a dopamine hit to welcome back Dr Anna Lembke, the author of "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence".

00:00:00 Sponsor Message

00:00:33 What is Dopamine?

00:02:50 Access is Easy Now in a Digital World

00:10:14 Opioid-induced Hyperalgesia

00:11:27 Expectation Let Down Children

00:13:54 Cannabis Addiction and Dopamine Fasting

00:17:27 How Reminders of our Drug Can Trigger Desire to Use

00:21:43 Gambling Addiction

00:25:56 The DOPAMINE Acronym

00:36:09 Replace a reward with another reward

00:39:17 Understanding Stress and Pain

00:44:54 Final Message

Today's book aims to unpack the neuroscience of reward and, in so doing, enable us to find a better, healthier balance between pleasure and pain. But neuroscience is not enough. We also need the lived experience of human beings. Who better to teach us how to overcome compulsive overconsumption than those most vulnerable to it: people with addiction. Whether it’s sugar or shopping, voyeuring or vaping, social media posts or The Washington Post, we all engage in behaviours we wish we didn’t, or to an extent we regret.

This book offers practical solutions for how to manage compulsive overconsumption in a world where consumption has become the all-encompassing motive of our lives.”

It’s a pleasure and a reward to welcome the author of Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence With Dr Anna Lembke

Find Anna here: https://www.annalembke.com

In Hidden Truths, David Fubini delivers is that awareness of the critical capabilities and issues that come with the territory - capabilities and issues that often take leaders by surprise - goes a long way toward helping leaders perform at a high level. He presents the essential skills that will keep leaders delivering success - both professionally and within their organizations.

We welcome the author of Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear but Are Rarely Told, David Fubini

Time stamps:

00:00 Sponsor Message Zai

01:38 CEOs Shocked by the Volume of Demands

06:17 Failure to Delegate

07:58 All Eyes Watching You as CEO

10:06 Jeff Clarke and Kodak in Free Fall

13:12 Information Vacuums and Managing Constituencies

17:30 Change Management Starts With Changing the Management

21:21 The How And Then The What

23:37 The Tradeoff: New Team V Retraining the Old One

25:40 Roger Smith and The Allure of Changing Slowly

27:33 Change: Slow and Polite V Fast and Pragmatic

29:55 Successfully Transitioning After A Merger Or Acquisition and The Case Of American Airlines

34:04 Sponsor Message Zai

Today's episode provides practical knowledge that will not only help leaders do their jobs better, but assist boards, HR, consultants, and others in working effectively with these executives. One of the book's themes is that appearance is not reality.

Much has been written and discussed about the apparent roles and responsibilities of CEOs and managing directors and other leaders.

Courses are taught in MBA and executive development programs that provide a lot of information about the job. Direct reports and teams also observe leaders in action. But it's not until you assume a leadership job that the reality of the position hits home.

The reality is that leaders operate in a crucible, one in which emotions run high and interpersonal relationships are at risk. Being in the spotlight, not having nearly enough hours in the day to address key issues, confronting right-versus-right decisions - all of this ratchets up the degree of difficulty. The good news that our guest and his book delivers is that awareness of the critical capabilities and issues that come with the territory - capabilities and issues that often take leaders by surprise - goes a long way toward helping leaders perform at a high level. He presents the essential skills that will keep leaders delivering success - both professionally and within their organizations.

We welcome the author of Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear but Are Rarely Told, David Fubini

Find David here: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=102821

Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege." That's not enough.

To truly make progress we need to stop celebrating the problem and instead take effective steps to solve it. Through her own exhaustive research, fresh evidence and first-hand work with companies our guest shows how it's done, and, reassuringly, how easy it is to get started.

We welcome the author of Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good, Joan C. Williams, welcome to the show.

Find Joan here: https://joancwilliams.com

Find bias interrupters here: https://biasinterrupters.org

Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results.

Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege."

That's not enough.

To truly make progress we need to stop celebrating the problem and instead take effective steps to solve it.

Through her own exhaustive research, fresh evidence and first-hand work with companies our guest shows how it's done, and, reassuringly, how easy it is to get started.

Chapter titles include

1. What's the path forward?

2. Is bias training worthless?

3. We're a meritocracy. Are you asking us to change that?

4. Why do some groups need to be politically savvier to succeed?

5. Are you saying that white men have it easy? I don't feel privileged.

6. We cherish our culture. Can we retain that and still achieve DEI goals?

7. Can we make progress on DEI without getting all rigid and bureaucratic?

8. Women's priorities change after having kids. Are you saying I should ignore that?

9. Isn't it natural—and inevitable—that people who work harder go further?

10. If we hire more women and people of colour, won't the DEI problem take care of itself?

1. What does the CEO need to do to finally deliver on DEI goals?
2. How can a company change who gets access to opportunities? (Hint: Only the CEO can)
3. How can CDOs and HR get buy-in—and deliver— on DEI goals?
4. How can HR and DEI departments work together to interrupt bias in basic business systems?
5. How can individual managers help move the needle—and manage more effectively?

We welcome the author of Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good, Joan C. Williams, welcome to the show.

Find Joan here: https://joancwilliams.com

Find bias interrupters here: https://biasinterrupters.org

It's you. As the speed of change in elite sports has increased, the support infrastructure around head coaches has not kept up. This has left many coaches--supposedly experts in human performance--walking zombies who don't sleep, don't exercise and don't see their families. To succeed in the modern sporting world, head coaches must face some hard truths. By grappling with these truths, which cut to the very core of who they are as human beings, head coaches can get out of their own way and achieve all-new levels of personal performance.

We welcome author of "The Tough Stuff: Seven Hard Truths About Being a Head Coach" Cody Royle

Find Cody here: https://www.codyroyle.com

From the spread of COVID-19 to the rise of political polarisation, from implicit bias to genetically modified food, from NASA to Netflix - it's time to think differently about how change works. Our guest is the world expert in the new science of networks. His ground-breaking research across areas as disparate as voting, health, technology and finance has highlighted powerful and highly effective new ways to ensure lasting change. In today's book, he distils more than a decade of deep experience into a fascinating new theory that challenges previous assumptions that new ideas are either contagious or not. He shows that beliefs and behaviours are not transmitted from person to person in the simple way that a virus is. The real story of social change is more complex and much more interesting. When we are exposed to a new idea, our social networks guide our responses in striking and surprising ways. Drawing on deep yet accessible research and fascinating examples, his book presents a paradigm-shifting new science for understanding what drives change, recognising our blind spots and how we can change the world around us.

We welcome the author of "Change: How to Make Big Things Happen", Damon Centola

Find Damon here: https://www.damoncentola.com

and here:

http://leighbureaultd.com/speakers/dcentola

We all know that we're capable of more than what we're already accomplishing.

But what if we discovered the tools we need to get the most out of our brain and achieve unheard-of mental performance?

With expert guidance from today's guest we can discover how to unlock the hidden potential of our brain.

Using simple tools and techniques we can use each day, his book will show us how to:

• Utilise the principle of neuroplasticity to transform your daily life
• Harness straightforward strategies to learn new behaviours
• Turn these behaviours into lasting habits and new skills
• Understand the latest developments in brain-enhancement
• Create better strategies for team innovation and problem solving

We welcome the author of Sort Your Brain Out: Boost Your Performance, Manage Stress and Achieve More, Dr Jack Lewis, welcome to the show

Find Jack here:

https://www.drjack.co.uk

Brain man VR:

https://www.brainmanvr.co.uk

We all know that we're capable of more than what we're already accomplishing.

But what if we discovered the tools we need to get the most out of our brain and achieve unheard-of mental performance?

With expert guidance from today's guest we can discover how to unlock the hidden potential of our brain.

Using simple tools and techniques we can use each day, his book will show us how to:

• Utilise the principle of neuroplasticity to transform your daily life
• Harness straightforward strategies to learn new behaviours
• Turn these behaviours into lasting habits and new skills
• Understand the latest developments in brain-enhancement
• Create better strategies for team innovation and problem solving

We welcome the author of Sort Your Brain Out: Boost Your Performance, Manage Stress and Achieve More, Dr Jack Lewis, welcome to the show

Find Jack here:

https://www.brainmanvr.co.uk

Brain man VR: https://www.brainmanvr.co.uk