The Innovation Show

Charles Handy is one a giant of contemporary thought. His books on management – including "Understanding Organisations" and "Gods of Management" – have changed the way we view business.

His work on broader issues and trends – such as "Beyond Certainty" – has changed the way we view society.

In "The Second Curve", he builds on a life's work to glimpse into the future and see what challenges and opportunities lie ahead.

He looks at current trends in capitalism and asks whether it is a sustainable system. He explores the dangers of a society built on credit. He challenges the myth that remorseless growth is essential. He even asks whether we should rethink our roles in life – as students, parents, workers and voters – and what the aims of an ideal society of the future should be.

Provocative and thoughtful as ever, he sets out the questions we all need to ask ourselves – and points us toward some answers.

I was fortunate to spend an evening with Charles in his home in London. He is an incredible man with an intriguing view of things. This was a memorable moment for me as I met a personal hero.

We discuss:

• Disruption
• Efficiency v Effectiveness
• Management v Leadership
• Purpose
• Shamrock Organisations
• The Doughnut Projects
• Communities in Organisations
• Education
• Parenting and so much more

Today's episode introduces New hope for those suffering from conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addictions, PTSD, ADHD and more.

Though incidence of these conditions is skyrocketing, for the past four decades standard treatment hasn't much changed, and success rates in treating them have barely improved, either. Meanwhile, the stigma of the "mental illness" label―damaging and devastating on its own―can often prevent sufferers from getting the help they need.

Today's guest is an innovator in his field, a Brain specialist and bestselling author on the forefront of a new movement within medicine and related disciplines that aims to change all that. Today, we will draw on the latest findings of neuroscience to challenge an outdated psychiatric paradigm. It will help us all take control and improve the health of our own brains, minimising or reversing conditions that may prevent us from living a full and emotionally healthy life.

The End of Mental Illness will help us discover:

• Why labelling someone as having a "mental illness" is not only inaccurate but harmful
• Why standard treatment may not have helped you or a loved one―and why diagnosing and treating you based on your symptoms alone so often misses the true cause of those symptoms and results in poor outcomes
• At least 100 simple things you can do yourself to heal your brain and prevent or reverse the problems that are making you feel sad, mad, or bad
• How to identify your "brain type" and what you can do to optimise your particular type
• Where to find the kind of health provider who understands and uses the new paradigm of brain health

It is a great pleasure to welcome Dr. Daniel Amen, multiple bestselling author, changemaker and author of "The End of Mental Illness: How Neuroscience Is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorders, ADHD, Addictions, PTSD, Psychosis, Personality Disorders, and More".

More about Daniel here http://danielamenmd.com/

and his free 6-week brain course is available here:

https://endofmentalillness.com/brainhealthchallenge/

It is known as the bible for startups and the best investment a startup can make.

A startup without customers is like a day without oxygen, and the Startup Owners Manual helps founders get it right and shows you how to get, keep, and grow customers, literally every step of the way.

This manual walks entrepreneurs step-by-step through the proven, world-renowned Customer Development process for getting startups right the first time.

The Customer Development process was developed by a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur-turned-educator and based on his eight valley startups, four of which IPO'ed.

He joined with serial entrepreneur Bob Dorf to build the Startup Owner s Manual as a sequel to his first book, which sparked the Lean Startup movement. The Startup Owners Manual lays out the best practices, lessons and tips that have swept the startup world, offering a wealth of proven advice and information for entrepreneurs of all stripes.

We also discuss innovation within larger, established organisations.

The manual:

• Guides startups of all types in their search for a scalable, profitable business model
• Explains the 9 deadly sins startups commit most often and helps you to avoid them
• Incorporates the business model canvas as the starting point for any startup
• Provides separate paths and advice for physical versus web/mobile products
• Explains how to test and iterate your companys road to product/market fit
• Details strategies and tactics for how to get, keep and grow customers
• Teaches a new math for startups -- metrics that matter
• Includes detailed checklists at every step of the process
• and provides hundreds of ideas, watch-outs and how tos for founders and innovators

I am delighted to welcome the pioneer of the Lean Startup movement, the legendary Steve Blank

'ZEST' equates to zing, enthusiasm, energy, gusto, eagerness, zeal and fervour.

It also suggests a tang, a sharpness. It's the opposite of bland.

Today's book called ZEST is not just a book on personal development. There are an awful lot of those.

Zest is a catalyst, a spark that ignites your remembering of what makes you, in a word, you.

It drives you to rethink, rejuvenate and reinvent. It also contains a touch of the revolutions.

Have you, as a grown-up, fallen into the trap of becoming a Groan-up?

You know you should try to make the best of things, but oftentimes you don't know what your "best" is anymore.

It's strange.

You used to know. What happened?

Was it the years of social conformity?

There is a whole beige generation out there - a generation that has lost its identity and forgotten who they once were - buried under the crushing, stifling facades of adulthood.

If only there was a way to unearth your passions, recover the zest for life you once had. Maybe there is.

Zest is a wake-up call for you to explore the formative moments that define your life. It challenges you to believe that your best days are still ahead, to search your soul, to shake things up and bask in the warmth of glorious individuality.

Today's episode will help us:

• Explore the pivotal, defining moments in your life
• Examine both the good and bad experiences that define you
• Reconnect to the essence of who you are Embrace your quirks, qualities and peculiarities
• Determine to be the person you always wanted to be Zest is your permission to play, your licence to wreak the right kind of havoc.

It's not about pretending to be someone you're not, it's about squeezing every drop out of who you already are.

We welcome, the Author of Zest: How to Squeeze the Max out of Life, Andy Cope

Why are we obsessed with the thing as we want - only to be bored when we get them?

Why is addiction perfectly logical to an addict?

Why does love change so quickly from passion to indifference?

Why are some people, die-hard liberals and others hardcore conservatives?

Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times—and so good at figuring them out?

The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine.

Dopamine ensured the survival of early man.

Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behavioUrs and cultural ideas—and progress itself.

Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more—more stuff, more stimulation, more surprises.

In pursuit of these things, it is undeterred by emotion, fear, or morality.

We welcome the author of "The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and will Determine the Fate of the Human Race." Daniel Z. Lieberman

More about Daniel here:

http://www.danielzlieberman.com/

Today's guest argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of this episode lies an explosive new idea: the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and created the male-female division of labour. As our ancestors adapted to using fire, humans emerged as "the cooking apes". Covering everything from food-labelling to sexual division of labour to raw-food faddists, Catching Fire offers a startlingly original argument about how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. A fundamental question that every culture answers in a different way, but only science can truly decide and one today's guest deeply explore is What made us human? Our guest's work proposes a new answer. He is a true changemaker, driven by curiosity and believes the transformative moment that gave rise to the genus Homo, one of the great transitions in the history of life, stemmed from the control of fire and the advent of cooked meals. Fire was our first technology. Cooking increased the value of our food. It changed our bodies, our brains, our use of time, and our social lives. It made us into consumers of external energy and thereby created an organism with a new relationship to nature, dependent on fuel.

The way we work is broken. It takes forever to get anything done. Meetings and emails are incessant. Bureaucracy stifles talent and creativity. Is this really the best we can do?

Aaron Dignan teaches companies how to eliminate red tape, tap into collective intelligence, and rethink long-held traditions that no longer make sense.

In "Brave New Work", he shows you how to revolutionise the way you, your team, and your company works forever.

Have fewer but better meetings

Create a culture of honesty, transparency, and trust

Cut down on rules to be more efficient

Be more agile and adaptive

Reignite passion and energy throughout your organisation

We welcome Aaron Dignan the author of "Brave New Work, Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?"

More about Aaron here: https://www.bravenewwork.com