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.
Episodes
It's rare for complex global systems to sit in stable equilibrium. The world just ain't like that. But guard this secret closely, because plenty of neoclassical economists build their models on exactly that assumption, along with that of the perfectly average consumer (who is definitely not called Mikey).
In this episode of DangerMouth: Darrell, Shana and Mikey talk with author/philosopher George Cooper, whose book Money, Blood and...
Special guest Blandine Anderson joins the trusty trio to talk around her new book The Wood & The Clay. The truth of imperfection, childhoods lost and found and presisted, day dreams, vivid dreams and accidental eyes are all revealed under a canopy of metaphorical trees.
Buy the book here: South West Makers
Saturday 24 October 2026, 10.30am - 12.30pm
Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon, TQ...
Fasten your seatbelts, this conversation moves through a great many concepts without pause for breath: -
- The AI Illusion & Explicit Knowledge
- Exaptation
- Estuarine Mapping & The Adjacent Possible
- Swarm Intelligence
- Redefining Leadership
- Have a listen and get Googling.
https://thecynefin.co/team/dave-snowden/
The cover illustration is taken from this book:
Cynefin, Wales and the WorldSome people play golf when they retire. Some people make it their business to inspire a generation. Kalyan Banerjee is firmly in the latter category.
Enjoy along with us a conversation with someone whose enthusiam and creativity has only matured with age.
Klorofeel FoundationMix mythology, ecology, craftology, farmology, with a forest, a field and the sea and you are approaching the foothills of Blandines fractal mindscape. A complex weave of wonder that she manifests in a very material way.
Worth a listen, if only for the jerboa.
John Bicheno has dedicated his career to the subtle Art of Lean, nurturing a complex and nuanced philosophy that is habitually eroded when passed through the reductionist, monetizing filters that drive Western consultancy.
Under his care that seed grew from a car centric creed to encompass wider horizons.
In this episode he looks back on his legacy with a wry smile.
His legacy lives on in the 6th edition of The Lean Toolbox: A Hand...
In this episode of Danger Mouth, Darrell Mann, Mike Conroy, and Shana Finnegan dive into the polarizing spectrum of AI—from the hype-fueled "snake oil" promises to the potential for total human economic redundancy.
The trio explores why AI currently excels at simple sorting but stumbles over the "Three C’s": Complexity, Counterintuition, and Causality. Us...
In this episode of Danger Mouth, hosts Darrell Mann, Mike Conroy, and Shana Finnegan sit down with Dr. Gopichand (Gopi) Katragadda, a man who might just be one of the last true polymaths on the planet. From his high-octane career as the CTO of the Tata Group and Managing Director at GE’s Jack Welch Research Center to his current ventures in AI and theater, Gopi shares a masterclass on balancing the rigor of engineering with t...
A delicious appetiser not to be missed!
This episode of Danger Mouth centres on a conversation with Olly Hawes, a portfolio artist, actor and writer whose work probes the limits of human connection and the points where society strains. It moves easily between the physical and the reflective, from Ollie’s account of being accidentally stabbed on stage during a production of Julius Caesar to a broader examination of craft...
This is an episode of the Danger Mouth podcast, hosted by Darrell Mann, Mike Conroy, and Shauna, featuring Swedish guest Per Lindstedt, co-author of The Value Model.
The Value Model defines value as a ratio — satisfaction of customer needs divided by use of customer ...
This episode features Joe Pine (author of The Transformation Economy) in conversation with Darrell Mann, Mike Conroy, and Sharna Finnegan.
The Transformation Economy Pine argues that economic value progresses through five stages, commodity, product, service, experience, an...
In this episode, DangerMouth drifts closer to something interesting. The place where things almost fall apart but don't. Where a system holds itself right at the edge of tipping over, and that turns out to be exactly where it works best.
There's a name for this. Self-organ...
In this episode of DangerMouth, hosts Darrell, Mike, and Sharna join author John Julius Reel to dissect the provocative strategies of Robert Greene’s 48 Laws of Power. The conversation traverses the thin line between tactical mastery and moral bankruptcy, comparing Greene’s "win-lose" Machiavellian world to the "win-win" principles of systematic innovation and Spiral Dynamics. Through raw personal anecdotes—rangin...
In this episode we welcome special guest Daniel Friedman the President of the Active Inference Institute.
Shana and Darrell smoothly switch up several intellectual gears as they engage with Daniel to explore the physics of transformation.
Later on Mikey tries to illustrate the basics of the notoriously complex and nuanced FEP, using vague outlines while Daniels fills in the colours.
Focused concentration is highly recommended...
In these turbulent times, humor may be the only glue strong enough to hold people together. It’s no joke.
Mike and Darrell welcome Barbara Plester from the University of Auckland Business School, who has an eye for the unserious.
Essential listening for trainee jesters.
Back in the heyday of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a very interesting experiment in management training took place. Darrell and I were among the guinea pigs. The lessons learned lasted a lifetime.
A few years later, our guest today, Steve Thomas (http://www.grassroutes.co.uk/), a very wise, principled, and incredibly brave, visionary educator, resurrected this protocol and added the guardrails that were so gratuitously...
Our guest is Anthony Lopez-Vito has kindly taken time out from running the Matrix to hang out with the gang!
What Joy!
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The team chat with Frank, its a classic.
Frank Devine’s Cathedral Culture System turns leaders into architects of shared purpose—not bricklayers chasing quarterly targets. Discover how it operationalises Rapid Mass Engagement (RM...
Darrell and Shana have written a book. Have a listen and see if it's your cup of tea.
Mikey is playing Steve Barlett and interviewing the authours - Saints preserve us!
In this Danger Mouth episode, the team dissects "Meaning" via the ABCM model (Autonomy, Belonging, Competence, Meaning). Darrell defines meaning as the coherence between purpose, pattern, and participation. Personal drivers range from legacy and human connection to the joy of play. They analyze societal S-curves, arguing that crises require "Yellow" systemic thinkers to guide "Orange" executors. Ultimately, solving ethical contradi...
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