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Season 2

April 24, 2025

S2E17 FutureProof

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 major nodes and the disrupt...

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April 13, 2025

IS2E16 In Search of Leaders

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 Month in his March E-Zine . Th...

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April 3, 2025

S2E15 Humanocracy

In 2020 by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini published the book Humanocracy. Mike and Darrell discuss whether this is an important tool in the increasingly difficult task of aligning people engaged in a common endeavour.

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March 20, 2025

S2E14 Pondering Education

In this episode Darrell, Shana and Mikey relate their experiences of being educated and consider ways in which the goals of the education system could be better aligned with ever changing requirements of todays society.

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March 13, 2025

S02E13 Alignment

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 investigate whether the Theo...

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Feb. 14, 2025

S2E11 Laziness

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 trouble." In this episode Darrel...

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Jan. 20, 2025

S2E10 Leap of Faith

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 Wave rather than obliterated ...

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Oct. 31, 2024

S2E06 The Third Way: US Election Special

Dangermouth strays into the danger zone and attempts to find a new approach to discuss the desireable outcome for the 2024 election. Darrell joins Shana on location in the USA for this episode. References The Third Way Podcas...

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Oct. 24, 2024

S2E05 WonderWorks

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 Mikey to examine the "and...

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Oct. 24, 2024

S2E04 Instinct

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 inside the box. Shana, Darre...

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Oct. 8, 2024

S203 School of Comedy

Comedy is innovation in real time. Professor of Comedy Emma Holmes and Drama Queen Christine van Asselt give Darrell and Mikey lessons in laughter. It's a funny business! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hflp9tE0Iww https://ww...

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Sept. 24, 2024

S2E01 Force of Nature (Baxter)

Paul Baxter approaches the world from his own unique perspective and has the showman's aptitude for storytelling. His homespun philosophy has produced startling innovations and enabled him to live life on his own terms. Mikey...

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