Welcome back to Dave Blakely and Mach49
Hello and welcome again to A Load of BS: The Behavioural Science Podcast on Best Behaviour with me Daniel Ross and for the second time my partner in BS crime Dave Blakely, Executive Vice President at venture builder Mach49, who I continue to be delighted to collaborate with on this mini-series of conversations on innovation, design and creativity in organisations; answering questions on how we move leaders and teams to change their behaviour, to lose their conservatism and scepticism and experiment wisely.
Today Dave and I talk about discipline. We argue that leaders should have the right to beat up their employees when things go wrong. No, we don't do that really. But we do consider the value of letting a little chaos into the firm to let great ideas germinate safely.
Show notes
Discipline: a punishment for disobedience or letting some chaos in?
The BS of imposing discipline on CEOs
Why Google is brilliant
Who Dave has stolen from and made it his own
Why generalists connect the dots better and are masters at lateral innovation
Applying SV in Paris, Bangkok and Nairobi
Playing mind games with clients
Google Save and turning round violent extremists in Nazi US hate groups
Errors of conservatism, scepticism and pessimism
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Next week, and for the final time for now, Dave and I talk about the story of Scrabble, presenting ideas on toothpicks and we conclude with a great fun quick fire round getting very personal.
Till next time,
Daniel
Dave Blakely on the behavioural science of discipline