DangerMouth: The Innovation Station

In this episode Darrell is squarely in his happy place as we welcome special guest, Conductor, Soprano and Academic Yajie Ye to discuss the conjunction of innovation and classical music and the skill…

In this episode we welcome special guest Rob Hygate, serial innovator and founder of eWATER a supplier of clean water systems in Africa.

The conversation ranges from the genesis of his book "The Logi…

Its over 50 years since Robert Pirsig's book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZAM) was published.  ZAM is the story of Robert Pirsig's struggle with various paradoxes, a story with no tidy…

In their forthcoming book "1%ers" Shana and Darrell argue that we humans need to restore the balance between science and the humanities to thrive in the age of AI. Step one in this process is to shak…

This episode was triggered by the inciteful review/final chapter of the book Champion Thinking by Simon Mundie which appeared in the April Issue of the Systematic Innovation Ezine (issue 277).

The th…

In this episode the team welcome special guest Andy Brunskill, who shares his insights of how Green World Innovation techniques can be effective in the Red World of continuous improvement.

Find out m…

Every minute organisations across the globe are becoming more tightly coupled.

This exponentially increases the number of variables that might impact your plans, complexity balloons. instability in m…

In this episode we welcome special guest Hilarie Owen author of the Book "In Search of Leaders", published 25 years ago and still so startlingly relevant, that Darrell featured it as Book of the Mont…

Misalignment between silos in an organisation is very common, very costly and a major reason why bold initiatives fail. 

In this episode Darrell, Shana and Mikey attempt to align themselves as they i…

A quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi sums up the long road to Indian Independence in one sentence "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win".

If in order to wi…

Agatha Christie is quoted as saying:

"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness — to save oneself troubl…

Jon Gower sometime author, presenter, raconteur, nature lover, journalist, historian, academic and professional Welshman joins us on this episode.

Jons special talent is that he has never let his pas…

Harbinger of revolution or overblown hype AI, is casting a shadow of doubt over all projected futures and that's only the headliner.

In this episode we discuss how to be swept along by the Coming Wav…

In this episode Darrell and Mikey are joined by Dr Avi and his AI Clone MobiAvi.

Up for discussion are the loneliness of the long distance CEO, where best to leverage you efforts if you want to make …

This episode uses the physical and psychological challenges of solo long distance coastal adventuring as a framing device for examining innovation basics. 

Darrell steers, Shana sets the climate and …

Dangermouth strays into the danger zone and attempts to find a fresh take on deliberating the desireable outcome for the 2024 election.

Darrell joins Shana on location in the USA for this episode.

Re…

The rediscovery and painstaking restoration of Aristotle's Poetics revealed a lost method of literary theory, seeing literature as a progression of innovations.

Wordmaster John Reel joins Darrell and…

Instinct is potentially a highly powerful creative tool, one that is largely shunned in western society as it is hard to define, tricky to measure and like AI no one really knows what is going on ins…