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Arkaro Insights: adapt and thrive in complexity

Mark Blackwell
Artificial Intelligence
Leadership
Creativity
VUCA
Jobs To Be Done
Change Management
Organizational Change
Emergent Strategy
Psychological Safety
Innovation
Constraints
Arkaro
Sustainable Nutrition
Education
Group Flow
AI Governance
Possibility Studies
Adaptive Organizations
Integrated Business Planning
Sales and Operations Planning

Arkaro Insights: adapt and thrive in complexity brings together practitioners and researchers for honest, practical conversations on leadership, change and innovation in a complex, adaptive world.

Each episode gives B2B executives the thinking and tools to lead transformation, not just manage it — whether in agriculture, food, chemicals or any industry where complexity is the daily reality.

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Most transformation programmes don't fail from poor project management. They fail because leaders are managing how they believe the world ought to be, rather than facing how it actually is.

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Most senior leaders in mature businesses know something is wrong. Their organisation is efficient, profitable and increasingly unable to move. What they lack is a language for what to do about it.

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Many businesses are brilliant at execution, and brilliant at executing the wrong things. Dov Shenkman, CEO of Atid Group and author of Value Centric, explains why efficiency alone is a downward spiral, and how AI is about to close the gap between pla... more

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Most corporate values are useless. Not because values don't matter, but because organisations have spent thirty years reaching for the same twenty-four words, integrity, collaboration, respect, excellence, and wondering why nobody believes them.

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Defne Saral
Senior Vice President of Sales at OFI
Olam Financiers International (OFI)
Episode: Regenerative Agriculture at Scale: Data, Satellites, and Smallholder Farmers with Defne Saral, ofi
Venkat Venkatraman
Professor at Boston's Questrom School of Business; co-author of Fusion Strategy
Boston University Questrom School of Business / Fusion Strategy author
Episode: Fusion Strategy: The $75 Trillion Industrial AI Opportunity | Venkat Venkatraman
Johnathan Cromwell
Professor at the University of San Francisco
University of San Francisco
Episode: The Hidden Power of Messy Teams with Johnathan Cromwell
Eric Ries
Author of Incorruptible
Author, Incorruptible
Episode: Incorruptible: Eric Ries on Mission, Purpose and the Fight Against Financial Gravity
Scott Anthony
Clinical professor of the Tuck School of Business and former senior partner in Innosight
Tuck School of Business / Innosight
Episode: Why Playing Games at Work Isn't Childish — It's a Competitive Advantage | Scott Anthony
Linden Thorp
Buddhist priest, somatic practitioner, creator of the Lodestone Method
Lodestone/Lodestone Method
Episode: The Brilliant but Limited Mind: Why Leadership Presence Starts in the Body with Linden Thorp
Joseph Fuller
Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School; co-head of the Managing the Future of Work project
Harvard Business School
Episode: The Steam Engine Mistake Companies Are Repeating with AI — Harvard Professor Joseph Fuller Explains
Keith Sawyer
Morgan Distinguished Professor of Educational Innovations, University of North Carolina; world-renowned expert on the science of creativity; author of Group Genius
University of North Carolina
Episode: Group Genius: The Science Behind High-Performing Teams with Keith Sawyer
David Cropley
Professor of Engineering and creativity researcher (engineering innovation expert)
University of Adelaide
Episode: Innovation Is Not a Light Bulb Moment — It’s an Engineering Discipline with David Cropley

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Mark Blackwell
Host of Arkaro Insights, Arkaro

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 6 ratings
  • Essential listening !

    Each contributors are in touch with the possibilities of our time and explore them. I find this podcast very enlightening. Real critical thinking at play here. Thank you to the creator of this platform !

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Europeanmisse
    Switzerland8 months ago
  • Interesting, insightful and useful

    Straightforward and applicable

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Psoodo37
    United States4 years ago

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Guests bring deep expertise and real-world applicability to complex topics.
Thoughtful critique and concrete frameworks, not hype.
Content is intellectually rigorous and applicable to executive-level challenges.
High-quality insights that are useful for leaders driving transformation.
Very thoughtful, evidence-based discussions that illuminate practical strategies.

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From Inside Out to Outside In: Aligning Teams Around User Needs with Rich Allen
Q: What next steps would you recommend for someone who suspects they're operating with inside-out thinking?
Begin by identifying the actual users and their needs in simple conversations, then gradually align teams and capabilities to those needs before expanding to broader strategic mappings like Wardley maps.
From Inside Out to Outside In: Aligning Teams Around User Needs with Rich Allen
Q: How does user needs mapping help organizations manage change, including AI adoption?
By mapping user needs first, organizations define clear value anchors and align teams to deliver outcome-focused capabilities, enabling responsible AI use that supports value rather than chasing tools for their own sake.
From Inside Out to Outside In: Aligning Teams Around User Needs with Rich Allen
Q: Tell me about yourself and how you got here.
Rich describes his hands-on software background, early adoption of Agile, and how Team Topologies and Wardley Mapping influenced his shift to a focus on user needs and organizational design.
Why Traditional Management Fails & How Adaptive Organisations Succeed with Erica Engelen
Q: What would you do with a leader and their team to find another path when growth stalls or command-and-control starts to creep in?
The approach is to start with purpose, bring in diverse perspectives, map value flows and dependencies, and consider organizing around bounded contexts and product-based value streams to maintain speed and adaptability without relying on more bureaucracy.
Why Traditional Management Fails & How Adaptive Organisations Succeed with Erica Engelen
Q: Does the systems mapping include the customer's view or is it primarily a business view?
They emphasize involving a mix of internal and external perspectives, including customers, VCs, and knowledgeable external stakeholders to uncover factors like regulations, data maturity, and adoption readiness that influence customer needs.

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This show centers on leadership, change, and innovation in complex, adaptive environments, with a focus on turning insights into action for B2B organizations. Episodes explore AI implementation, human factors in change, customer-led growth, and strategies for operating in dynamic systems, often featuring academics and senior practitioners who blend theory with practical frameworks. Notable trends include long-horizon thinking for AI, group creativity and flow, embodiment in leadership, and robust experimentation to build resilient organizations. The format is typically evidence-based, with concrete frameworks, real-world case studies, and actionable takeaways for executives charting transformation across industries like agriculture, food, a... more

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