
S1E98 - Why The Best Ideas Come From a Marketplace of Ideas
Published: March 3, 2026
Duration: 27:21
This week, we kicked things off with a story that’s almost too good to be true—the Great Emu War of 1932—and used it to highlight what happens when we try to solve modern problems with old, top-down thinking. As organizations confront complexity and change, we’re not up against simple, centralized challenges anymore; we're facing adaptive, distributed ones.
We sat down with Emily Tedards and Jason Wild, co-authors of Genius at Scale. They challenged the myth of the lone genius and shared how true innovation emerges from activating the collective genius within and beyond organizational boundari...