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The Innovation Show

Aidan McCullen

The Innovation Show is a business innovation podcast hosted by Aidan McCullen, recipient of the 2025 Thinkers50 Innovation Award and author of Undisruptable. Each week Aidan interviews the authors, researchers and practitioners reshaping how organisations think about innovation, leadership, change and reinvention. The guest list reads like a who's who of innovation. Gary Hamel joined Aidan for an 18-part series. Seth Godin was the show's first guest, and Rita McGrath, Dee Hock, Robert Burgelman, Alex Osterwalder, Joe Bower, Clark Gilbert, Scott D. Anthony, Michael Tushman, Charles O'Reilly, Sven Smit, Paul Daugherty and Paul Nunes have all followed, alongside hundreds of thinkers...

Episodes · 25

How to Get Leadership to Back Your Idea Robert Burgelman on Intel

Oct 2, 2026 · 1h 7m

EP 667: David Bland on DuPont, Qnity and the Power of Assumptions Mapping

Sep 26, 2026 · 54m

Ep 666: Shuo Chen — Fractional Founders, Frontier Firms and Why Enterprise Data Is AI's Gold

Sep 17, 2026 · 48m

Paul Nunes — Motorola, Combinatorial Innovation and the Treasure in the Trash

Sep 11, 2026 · 55m

Dov Baron — The Art of Belonging and Identity Addiction

Sep 7, 2026 · 1h 18m

Ep 663: Alex Osterwalder — Why the Core Business Kills Innovation (Explore vs Exploit, Part 3)

Aug 25, 2026 · 27m

Alex Osterwalder — Value Proposition Design in the Age of AI (Part 2)

Aug 19, 2026 · 32m

Alex Osterwalder — Which Projects to Fund and Which to Kill

Aug 13, 2026 · 41m

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez — Powered by Projects and the Project-Driven Organization

Aug 7, 2026 · 59m

Rita McGrath & Sangeet Paul Choudary — Rule Makers, Rule Takers and Structural Uncertainty

Jul 29, 2026 · 1h 4m

Keith McCandless — The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures

Jul 24, 2026 · 54m

Usman Sheikh — How AI Will Reshape Consulting: The End of the Pyramid

Jul 15, 2026 · 51m

Carla Johnson — RE:Think Innovation and the Wheel of Innovation

Jul 9, 2026 · 1h 5m

Carliss Baldwin & Kim Clark — Design Rules: How IBM Created Ecosystems (and Competitors)

Jul 3, 2026 · 1h 29m

Jennifer Chatman — Transformational Leader or Narcissist?

Jun 24, 2026 · 33m

Steve Jobs in Exile — NeXT, Pixar and the Road Back to Apple, Part 2 (Geoffrey Cain)

Jun 15, 2026 · 56m

Geoffrey Cain — Steve Jobs in Exile: NeXT, Failure, Revenge and the Remaking of a Visionary

Jun 10, 2026 · 1h 19m

AI Is Rewiring Organizations — McGrath, Osterwalder, Amla & Sheikh

Jun 3, 2026 · 55m

Eric Ries — How to Build an Incorruptible Organisation

May 27, 2026 · 34m

Bruce Vojak — Identifying, Developing and Managing Serial Innovators (Part 3 of 3)

May 20, 2026 · 1h 12m

Bruce Vojak — Navigating the Politics of Breakthrough Innovation (Part 2 of 3)

May 14, 2026 · 56m

Bruce Vojak — The Hourglass Model of Breakthrough Innovation

May 13, 2026 · 13m

Bruce Vojak — Serial Innovators: The Hidden Power Inside Mature Firms (Part 1)

May 7, 2026 · 1h 24m

Jeff & Staney DeGraff — The Art of Change (DeGraff Trilogy Finale)

Apr 27, 2026 · 1h 22m

Creativity Is a Skill: Jeff & Staney DeGraff on the C.R.E.A.T.E. Method (Clarify to Evaluate)

Apr 22, 2026 · 51m