DangerMouth: The Innovation Station

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. Using a botche...

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 the flu...

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, activism ...

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 resour...

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—ranging from high-stak...

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. Thi...

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...

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 (RME) to create...

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...

Find the Gap!

The DangerMouth team likes breaking things, (at least Mikey does).  We love disruption.

But boundaries and reality are a very good check on mindless vandalism.

Our guest today Costas Papaikonomu, has many scars from trendy, bold, brazen and totally misguided disruption efforts and experienced the wretched consequences.

He makes a compelling case for exploring the often over looked and incredibly fertile territory of t...