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The Innovation Show

The Innovation Show

The Innovation Show 749 Episodes Aug 19, 2026

A global weekly show that interviews authors to inspire, educate, and inform the business world and the curious. Presented by the author of "Undisruptable", it explores topics beyond innovation, disruption, and technology, focusing on the human need to learn and adapt to a changing world.

Episodes

Alex Osterwalder — Value Proposition Design in the Age of AI (Part 2)
Alex Osterwalder — Value Proposition Design in the Age of AI (Part 2) Aug 19, 2026 32:37 "You're gonna run up a hundred wrong hills, and you're still not gonna get a good understanding of the map." Alexander Osterwalder, co-author of Value Proposition Design and founder of Strategyzer, returns for Part 2 of our series. Last week: which projects to retire. This week: value proposition design in the age of AI — why generative AI can formulate a brilliant value proposition, but only if y
Alex Osterwalder — Which Projects to Fund and Which to Kill
Alex Osterwalder — Which Projects to Fund and Which to Kill Aug 13, 2026 41:03 "Spreadsheets are a fantasy made explicit. They're not a metric. What you can measure is the evidence that the business case could work." Alexander Osterwalder, creator of the Business Model Canvas, CEO of Strategyzer and author of The Invincible Company, Testing Business Ideas and Value Proposition Design, returns to The Innovation Show. He walks Aidan McCullen through the evidence-based innovati
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez — Powered by Projects and the Project-Driven Organization
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez — Powered by Projects and the Project-Driven Organization Aug 7, 2026 59:46 "If you launch more projects than you finish, you're a bad leader. Your role is not about launching projects — it's about finishing them." Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, creator of the project economy concept and author of Powered by Projects, joins Aidan McCullen to explain why agile — a 20-year-old idea — is no longer enough, and why the next evolution is the project-driven organization (PDO): a compa
Rita McGrath & Sangeet Paul Choudary — Rule Makers, Rule Takers and Structural Uncertainty
Rita McGrath & Sangeet Paul Choudary — Rule Makers, Rule Takers and Structural Uncertainty Jul 29, 2026 01:04:43 "Structural uncertainty is simple. The game itself is in question. The playing field is in question. You're no longer playing with uncertainty inside the rules — the rules are the thing that's moving." Rita McGrath wrote The End of Competitive Advantage and gave us transient advantage. Sangeet Paul Choudary wrote Reshuffle and won the 2025 Thinkers50 Strategy Award. Aidan McCullen puts them in the
Keith McCandless — The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures
Keith McCandless — The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures Jul 24, 2026 54:43 "You don't have to be a methodological genius. These are patterns — 43 simple patterns that anyone can use to include every voice in shaping what happens next." Keith McCandless, co-developer of Liberating Structures and co-author of The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures, joins Aidan McCullen to explain why most meetings are either over-controlled or under-controlled — and how simple shift
Usman Sheikh — How AI Will Reshape Consulting: The End of the Pyramid
Usman Sheikh — How AI Will Reshape Consulting: The End of the Pyramid Jul 15, 2026 51:54 "AI doesn't have judgment in it — it produces judgment-shaped artifacts." Usman Sheikh, founder of High Output Ventures and author of the Framebreak newsletter, has spent years writing about how AI will reshape professional services — and the world has now caught up with the puck. In this conversation with Aidan McCullen, he explains why the consulting pyramid — the structure behind every major fi
Carla Johnson — RE:Think Innovation and the Wheel of Innovation
Carla Johnson — RE:Think Innovation and the Wheel of Innovation Jul 9, 2026 01:05:28 "Innovation isn't a gift. It's a simple, repeatable five-step process that anyone, at any level, can learn — with nothing more than a stack of Post-it notes." Carla Johnson, author of RE:Think Innovation, is on a mission to teach one million people to consistently come up with new, great and reliable ideas. In this anniversary-edition conversation, she takes Aidan McCullen through her updated Whee
Carliss Baldwin & Kim Clark — Design Rules: How IBM Created Ecosystems (and Competitors)
Carliss Baldwin & Kim Clark — Design Rules: How IBM Created Ecosystems (and Competitors) Jul 3, 2026 01:29:04 "The act of modularizing your product is the very act of inviting your future competitors into existence." Carliss Baldwin and Kim Clark, authors of the landmark Design Rules: The Power of Modularity, join Aidan McCullen for an Innovation Show exclusive. Their book is the Rosetta Stone of platform strategy — the mechanic underneath the Innovator's Dilemma — and it has never been more relevant th
Jennifer Chatman — Transformational Leader or Narcissist?
Jennifer Chatman — Transformational Leader or Narcissist? Jun 24, 2026 33:38 "Narcissists do draw people in. They start with really appealing visions — and then the wheels come off." About 2% of people are narcissists. Among CEOs, it's roughly 16%. Jennifer Chatman — Dean of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and one of the world's leading scholars of organisational culture — joins Aidan McCullen to explain why narcissistic leadership is so often mistaken for vis
Geoffrey Cain — Steve Jobs in Exile, Part 2: NeXT's Failures, Pixar's Lifeline and the Road Back to Apple
Geoffrey Cain — Steve Jobs in Exile, Part 2: NeXT's Failures, Pixar's Lifeline and the Road Back to Apple Jun 15, 2026 56:33 Steve Jobs sold barely 100 computers a month at NeXT — and told his team they'd sell 100,000. This is the decade everyone skips. Author Geoffrey Cain joins Aidan McCullen for part two on Steve Jobs in Exile, the story of the wilderness years between Jobs' 1985 ousting from Apple and his return. Cain reframes the NeXT era not as a triumphant hero's journey but as a cascade of failure, ego and sel
Geoffrey Cain — Steve Jobs in Exile: NeXT, Failure, Revenge and the Remaking of a Visionary
Geoffrey Cain — Steve Jobs in Exile: NeXT, Failure, Revenge and the Remaking of a Visionary Jun 10, 2026 01:19:17 Steve Jobs was nearly bankrupt — down to his last $150 million, burning $50 million a year, with every product failing and every investor gone. Award-winning journalist Geoffrey Cain, author of Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of a Technology Visionary, joins Aidan McCullen to tell the story the official Jobs narrative leaves out: the dozen years between his firing
AI Is Rewiring Organizations — McGrath, Osterwalder, Amla & Sheikh
AI Is Rewiring Organizations — McGrath, Osterwalder, Amla & Sheikh Jun 3, 2026 55:59 One developer. Six months. An $80 million sale to Wix. That's not the future of work — it's already here. In this special panel from the Kyndryl Institute and The Innovation Show, host Aidan McCullen brings together four of the world's sharpest minds on strategy, innovation and disruption to explain why most leaders are using AI completely wrong — and what to do instead. Rita McGrath (Columbia,

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