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Strategy and disruption
Jeff & Staney DeGraff — The Art of Change
Published 27 Apr 2026
Organisations love innovation, but they hate their innovators. Jeff and Staney DeGraff close out the trilogy with paradox mindset, the seven paradoxes, and why the man who saved Operation Warp Speed got passed over for promotion.
Jeff & Staney DeGraff — The Art of Change opens with a practical framing of why organisations punish their innovators and why it matters to leaders.
The conversation moves into the paradox mindset, linking the idea back to execution, culture, and decision-making.
Creativity and innovation practice
Creativity Is a Skill: Jeff & Staney DeGraff on the C.R.E.A.T.E. Method
Published 22 Apr 2026
Creativity is not a gift. It is a skill. Jeff and Staney DeGraff return with the CREATE method that turns ordinary teams into compounding inventors.
Creativity Is a Skill: Jeff & Staney DeGraff on the C.R.E.A.T.E. Method opens with a practical framing of creativity is a method, not a mood and why it matters to leaders.
The conversation moves into the create sequence, linking the idea back to execution, culture, and decision-making.
Leadership and change
Innovation Isn't Harmony—It's Conflict
Published 15 Apr 2026
What if innovation doesn't come from alignment but from constructive conflict? This episode explores the Innovation Code and the four archetypes that make new ideas work.
Innovation Isn't Harmony—It's Conflict opens with a practical framing of comfort is the danger signal and why it matters to leaders.
The conversation moves into innovation archetypes, linking the idea back to execution, culture, and decision-making.
AI and autonomy
AI and the Octopus Organization
Published 08 Apr 2026
Steven Wunker and Jonathan Brill explore how AI reshapes organisations through distributed intelligence, autonomy, and faster decision-making.
AI and the Octopus Organization opens with a practical framing of distributed intelligence inside firms and why it matters to leaders.
The conversation moves into why structure matters more than tooling, linking the idea back to execution, culture, and decision-making.
Strategy and negotiation
Split the Pie: Barry Nalebuff on Fair Negotiation, Game Theory, and Better Deals
Published 01 Apr 2026
Barry Nalebuff explains the Split the Pie method, showing how data, logic, and game theory can produce fairer deals.
Split the Pie: Barry Nalebuff on Fair Negotiation, Game Theory, and Better Deals opens with a practical framing of negotiation beyond zero-sum thinking and why it matters to leaders.
The conversation moves into fairness as a strategic tool, linking the idea back to execution, culture, and decision-making.
Case studies and disruption
Nokia Saw iPhone Coming — So What Went Wrong?
Published 24 Mar 2026
Timo Partanen explains why Nokia tracked Apple early and still failed to turn warning signals into action.
Nokia Saw iPhone Coming — So What Went Wrong? opens with a practical framing of warnings that never became action and why it matters to leaders.
The conversation moves into when insight dies in silos, linking the idea back to execution, culture, and decision-making.
Reinvention and leadership
Nokia's Comeback Explained: Emotion, Strategy & Boardroom Decisions
Published 18 Mar 2026
Nokia didn't just collapse. It reinvented itself. This episode explores how leadership, emotion, and boardroom decisions shaped that recovery.
Nokia's Comeback Explained: Emotion, Strategy & Boardroom Decisions opens with a practical framing of reinvention after collapse and why it matters to leaders.
The conversation moves into emotion in strategic recovery, linking the idea back to execution, culture, and decision-making.
Corporate failure analysis
Everyone Thinks the iPhone Killed Nokia. They're Wrong!
Published 10 Mar 2026
The real reason Nokia collapsed had more to do with fear, leadership pressure, and Symbian lock-in than with the iPhone alone.
Everyone Thinks the iPhone Killed Nokia. They're Wrong! opens with a practical framing of the internal story behind the collapse and why it matters to leaders.
The conversation moves into fear as a strategic inhibitor, linking the idea back to execution, culture, and decision-making.
Emotion and strategy
Who Killed Nokia?
Published 05 Mar 2026
Quy Huy and Timo Vuori unpack how fear, shared emotion, and distorted truth-telling undermined Nokia from the inside.
Who Killed Nokia? opens with a practical framing of how emotion changes strategy and why it matters to leaders.
The conversation moves into why dissent disappears, linking the idea back to execution, culture, and decision-making.
Case studies and strategy
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry
Published 23 Feb 2026
Jacquie McNish traces BlackBerry's rise, leadership struggles, and strategic blind spots in a story that mirrors many incumbent traps.
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry opens with a practical framing of how dominance became fragility and why it matters to leaders.
The conversation moves into signals leaders missed, linking the idea back to execution, culture, and decision-making.
Corporate innovation
Corporate Innovation Strategy: Return Maps, Managing Up & Forecasting with Chuck House
Published 18 Feb 2026
Chuck House explains managing up, using return maps, and aligning strategy so intrapreneurs can get permission to win inside large companies.
Corporate Innovation Strategy: Return Maps, Managing Up & Forecasting with Chuck House opens with a practical framing of managing up without losing momentum and why it matters to leaders.
The conversation moves into return maps and strategic permission, linking the idea back to execution, culture, and decision-making.
Digital transformation
Digital Transformation Playbook: 10 Years On with David Rogers
Published 11 Feb 2026
David Rogers revisits Digital Transformation Playbook to show how AI, platform strategy, and business model disruption have changed the field.
Digital Transformation Playbook: 10 Years On with David Rogers opens with a practical framing of transformation after the first wave and why it matters to leaders.
The conversation moves into platform thinking in the ai era, linking the idea back to execution, culture, and decision-making.