DangerMouth: The Innovation Station
The podcast that takes you on the long and dangerous journey from the siloed foothills of inventing things to the yawning abyss of reinventing society.
Each week we take a subject related to innovation and set off on a verbal stroll to see what wonders unfold.
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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...
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.
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...
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...
S2E02 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 50th Anniversary
In this episode Darrell and Mikey are joined by special guest Steve Barbone, Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University. Together we wrestle to get the right mix between romantic and classical, art and science, sen...
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...
Recent Episodes
S2E17 FutureProof
IS2E16 In Search of Leaders
S2E15 Humanocracy
S2E14 Pondering Education
S02E13 Alignment
S02E12 Good Suffering
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About the Hosts
Mike Conroy
Journeyman
Recovering mechanical engineer, reformed programmer, ex yoga fanatic. Mike has finally discovered his inner puppy and is randomly trotting around and causing trouble.
Current missions:
1. Concluding paddling a kayak around the coast of the British Isles.
2. Following in the footsteps of Benjamin Button.
https://www.mikeyhere.com/p/3-capital-kayak.html
Darrell Mann
Prophet
Nomadic Prophet: Not-quite Baby-Boomer, not quite GenX, Tyke, ruby-anniversary innovator, anthropologist, apolitical politician, musicologist, whatever the word is for someone with too many left-handed guitars, irritant, Darrell has finally given up chasing bright shiny ideas and started corralling gnarly, contradictory, awkward ones.
On a good day, the unstoppable Theory Of Everything detective, otherwise, author, creator and curator of all the things that fell between the cracks of all the other stuff.
https://www.systematic-innovation.com/