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An award winning nationally syndicated radio show and podcast where award winning innovators are interviewed about how they used creativity and design to create game-changing — killer innova...
Confirmation bias is shaping your decisions right now. Not occasionally. Every day. And the unsettling part is that the smarter you are, the...
Twelve official definitions for R&D. Zero agreement. The US government publishes at least a dozen distinct official definitions across agenc...
Every public company's R&D number is a lie hiding in plain sight. Not because anyone falsified it. Because the number was never built to tel...
Every public company in the technology industry measures innovation spending the same way. R&D as a percentage of revenue. Why? Because Wall...
Twenty years. Nearly one thousand episodes on this show. And starting today, we're going to try something a little different this season. Se...
The best decision-makers aren't better at deciding. They're better at controlling when, where, and how they decide. It took me twenty years...
Ron Johnson was one of the most successful retail executives in America. He'd made Target hip. He'd built the Apple Store from nothing into...
When neuroscientists scanned the brains of people going along with a group, they expected to find lying. What they found instead was somethi...
"We need an answer by the end of the day." Ten words. And the moment you hear them, something shifts inside your chest. Your pulse ticks up....
A nurse in Pennsylvania had been on her feet for twelve hours. She was supposed to go home, but the unit was short-staffed, so she stayed. D...
You've got a decision you've been putting off. Maybe it's a career move. An investment. A difficult conversation you keep rehearsing in your...
You've built a toolkit over the last several episodes. Logical reasoning. Causal thinking. Mental models. Serious intellectual firepower. No...
Welcome to this week's show. I'm recording this episode from my hotel room here in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the annual Consumer Electronics Sho...
Twenty-one years. That's how long I've been doing this. Producing content. Showing up. Week after week, with only a handful of exceptions—mo...
Before the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, NASA management officially estimated the probability of catastrophic failure at one in...
Quick—which is more dangerous: the thing that kills 50,000 Americans every year, or the thing that kills 50? Your brain says the first one,...
I stepped out of the shower in March and my chest split open. Not a metaphor. The surgical incision from my cardiac device procedure just… o...
In August 2025, Polish researchers tested something nobody had thought to check: what happens to doctors' skills after they rely on AI assis...
You're frozen. The deadline's approaching. You don't have all the data. Everyone wants certainty. You can't give it. Sound familiar? Maybe i...
Try to go through a day without using an analogy. I guarantee you'll fail within an hour. Your morning coffee tastes like yesterday's batch....
$37 billion. That's how much gets wasted annually on marketing budgets because of poor attribution and misunderstanding of what actually dri...
You see a headline: "Study Shows Coffee Drinkers Live Longer." You share it in 3 seconds flat. But here's what just happened—you confused co...
The Crisis We're Not Talking About We're living through the greatest thinking crisis in human history—and most people don't even realize it'...
Most innovation leaders are performing someone else's version of innovation thinking. I've spent decades in this field. Worked with Fortune...
Michael Dell and his investors spent twenty-five billion dollars to buy back Dell Technologies. But they weren't really buying a company. Th...
What if I told you that the people who disagree with you are actually your secret weapon for better thinking? Just last month, my wife and I...
In 2005, I had a ten-minute conversation at San Jose Airport that generated billions in revenue for HP. But here's what's fascinating: three...
In October 1903, The New York Times published an editorial mocking the idea of human flight, stating that a successful flying machine might...
Your best innovation ideas aren't losing to bad ideas – they're losing to exhaustion. I know that sounds counterintuitive. After 30 years of...
A software engineer grabbed a random word from a dictionary – "beehive" – and within hours designed an algorithm that saved his company mill...
The most popular piece of innovation advice in Silicon Valley is wrong—and it's killing great ideas before they have a chance to succeed. I...
Innovation partnerships can create breakthrough markets—or hand them to competitors through terrible decisions. I know because I lived throu...
You know that moment when you walk into a meeting and immediately sense the mood in the room? Or when a proposal looks perfect on paper, but...
The $25 Million Perfect Presentation Picture this: You're in a conference room with 23 executives, everyone has perfect PowerPoint presentat...
Every breakthrough innovation starts the same way: everyone thinks it's a terrible idea. Twitter was dismissed as "breakfast updates." Googl...
In 2011, HP killed a $1.2 billion innovation in just 49 days. I was the Chief Technology Officer who recommended buying it. What happened ne...
University of Washington researchers discovered something that should concern every parent: children who use AI to create can no longer crea...
The most innovative creators don't use AI as a replacement – they use it as a strategic partner in a carefully choreographed dance of human...
Humans who committed to four thinking exercises for 10 minutes daily generated 43% more original solutions than the most advanced AI systems...
Harvard neuroscientists confirm: creative thinking uses neural pathways that AI can't replicate – and never will. Hello, I'm Phil McKinney,...
Our ability to solve complex problems without AI has plummeted 30% in just five years. That's not just a statistic – it's the sound of your...
In 2007, two designers struggling to pay rent in San Francisco had a seemingly simple thought: "What if people could rent out their spare ro...
Most people react to change. They adapt, adjust, and scramble to keep up. But a small group sees change coming. They prepare for it, shape i...
Your phone pings. A bold headline lights up your screen. A friend shares a "must-see" video. But how do you know what's real? In today's hyp...
In a world obsessed with digital tools and AI-generated solutions, it's easy to forget the original engines of creative transformation—our h...
What made Microsoft possible? Binary code, four kilobytes of memory, and 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. But what truly set Bill Gates...
Think Like Steve Jobs: 6 Strategies Behind Billion Dollar Idea When you think of game-changing innovation, one name stands above the rest—St...
Have you ever wondered what it takes to create something that truly lasts? What's the secret to building something that doesn't just survive...
On a stormy night in the 1880s, two men were working relentlessly to shape the future of electricity. In Menlo Park, Thomas Edison meticulou...
In 1878, gas lamp manufacturers celebrated their dominance, believing their industry was untouchable. But in a small workshop in Menlo Park,...