Decisioncast: Recent Episodes
Frank Dillon
DECISION is an online resource for management and leadership, with a mixture of articles, interviews and podcasts for those interested in keeping abreast of the latest ideas in management.
Building on its 20 year plus heritage as a business magazine, Decision provides a stimulating package of ideas, reviews and opinions on the subject of leadership, innovation and management, with a unique Irish perspective on global issues of concern to business.
Decision provides a stream of content and ideas from publishers including Harvard Business Review together with original interviews and podcasts. It also organises events with leading management authors in partnership with the MBA Association of Ireland and others.
Decision is edited by business journalist Frank Dillon, who in addition to his work for Decision also contributes to the Innovation and Business section of The Irish Times.
Episode Notes Organisations need to move beyond exploiting what is currently successful says Martin Reeves, author of ‘The Imagination Machine’, in this interview with Frank Dillon
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Episode Notes Companies need to neutralise innovative blockers if they are to achieve their full potential, says author and Innosight consultant Scott Anthony. He sat down recently to talk to Decision Editor Frank Dillon
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Episode Notes In this podcast interview, global skills expert Ravin Jesuthasan, co-author of ‘Reinventing Jobs’ (HBR Press) and managing director of Willis Towers Watson, discusses how Covid-19 is affecting the world of work and how organisations should best respond.
David Meade runs hugely entertaining, engaging and interactive keynotes/workshops with organisations to improve the way they work and perform through comprehensive management, leadership, and operational development programmes. With his dynamic and engaging presentation style, David has become known for an innovative style that forces audiences to think critically about the challenges around them.
Author, consultant and practicing medical doctor John Briffa discusses some simple strategies that individuals and organisations can implement to reduce workplace-related stress.
The lines are now blurring between humans and machines in the workplace with implications for productivity, security, employment and ethics amongst other things. Futurologist and business consultant Alexandra Levit ranges over this fascinating subject in her new book Humanity Works which she discusses here.
Bureaucracy is stifling innovation efforts in the world’s top companies. We need to kill it and reengineer the model for innovation, the Harvard and London Business School professor argues in this episode.
In this episode, the leading Swiss business theorist says that traditional business plans are a ‘fantasy refined’ and explains a better path to innovation.
Whitney Johnson is an expert on disruptive innovation, a subject on which she has collaborated with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen. Here she discusses how disruptive innovation can apply to careers as well as businesses, the key theme in her book, ‘Build an A team’.
In this podcast, the co-author of Innovation Capital (HBR Press) discusses the research for this book that uncovers some of the surprising reasons why some entrepreneurs succeed and other don’t and what innovators can learn from it.