The Innovation Show

Nathan Waters is the founder of Peerism, a blockchain-based economic protocol which aims to solve job automation and wealth inequality via skill tokens, proof-of-skill and matching paid work to tokenized skill levels. He is a futurist, entrepreneur and social decentralist. He also founded and organises one of the largest Ethereum meetups in the world SydEthereum and the largest independent hackathon in Australia Hackagong.

http://peerism.org

https://medium.com/peerism/blockchain-commons-the-end-of-all-corporate-business-models-3178998148ba

http://sydethereum.com

Don is a leading Global authority on the impact of technology on business and society. He has authored over 15 books, including Wikinomics, The Digital Economy, Digital Capital, Growing up Digital, the Naked Corporation, Radical Openness and Blockchain Revolution We talk a little about Don and his ethos and how he has overcome adversity to change over the years.

We talk about his phenomenal 2008 "Wikinomics - Mass Collaboration" Don tells us how technology changes the way society functions and how collaboration is an engine of the new economy. We talk Decentralisation, Blockchain v middlemen, banks, governments, smart contract, establishing trust, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

We talk how bank systems exclude poorer nations, prohibitive costs and complex systems and how Blockchain can reduce corruption and improve contracts. 70% of the world has no enforceable claim to the land they own and this can be fixed.

We talk Imogen Heap and music payments and copyright. We talk about data issues and how you own your own identity, you could rent data to an advertiser for example. Blockchain and smart contracts can enable many smaller players to play just like the internet liberated people from the printing press.

For more on Don's latest work see: http://dontapscott.com/

For more on his Blockchain Research instate, see https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/

For Don's books see: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Don-Tapscott/e/B0045AJUQ6/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1512690802&sr=8-1

For Don's Ted talks see: https://www.ted.com/speakers/don_tapscott Twitter: @dtapscott

Should we fire top talent if they are killing our workplace? What will it do to the rest of the team? Will it kill your business? Will it kill morale? Or will it be the best decision you ever made? We talk to software architect and technical collaboration leader at UCLA, Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton. Jonathan wrote a blog post that took the world by storm where he told us of his experience in letting go the top talent and with that the toxic attitude that talent brought to the workplace.

Links: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/we-fired-our-top-talent-best-decision-we-ever-made-4c0a99728fde https://medium.freecodecamp.org/@peachpie

EP 66: Rising above a Toxic Workplace - Brutal Bosses. Poisonous People. Soul-Crushing Cultures. Are you operating in a toxic workplace? Is your boss a narcissist? Do you have a black walnut tree in your midst? Is it worth risking your health for financial gain? Do you know what to do? We are joined by Dr. Paul White, psychologist, speaker, consultant and author whose passion is "making work relationships work." For over 20 years, he has assisted businesses, government agencies, schools and non-profit agencies. Paul talks to us about the challenges of a toxic workplace and how we can deal with it.

On this episode, we talk about how to get the boss to buy into new ideas.

Jim Detert is a Global expert in this field. Organizations do not prosper unless middle managers have the confidence to identify and champion change. Getting buy-in is key.

Jim identifies the problems faced by so many corporate innovators, intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs in residence. He then discusses his frameworks on how to circumnavigate so many blockers to enable much-needed change and innovation. We also discuss how leaders can create the conditions for such recommendations to be made from simple changes in where ideation happens to how they mingle with their teams.