Killer Innovations with Phil McKinney - A Show About Ideas Creativity And Innovation Podcast
1) Numerical Thinking: How to Find the Truth When Numbers Lie
Quick—which is more dangerous: the thing that kills 50,000 Americans every year, or the thing that kills 50? Your brain says the first one, obviously. The data says you're dead wrong. Heart disease k...Show More
2) The Clock is Screaming (And My Grandson is Listening)
I stepped out of the shower in March and my chest split open. Not a metaphor. The surgical incision from my cardiac device procedure just… opened. Blood and fluid everywhere. Three bath towels to sto...Show More
3) Second-Order Thinking: How to Stop Your Decisions From Creating Bigger Problems
In August 2025, Polish researchers tested something nobody had thought to check: what happens to doctors' skills after they rely on AI assistance? The AI worked perfectly—catching problems during colo...Show More
4) How To Make Better Decisions When Nothing Is Certain
You're frozen. The deadline's approaching. You don't have all the data. Everyone wants certainty. You can't give it. Sound familiar? Maybe it's a hiring decision with three qualified candidates and r...Show More
5) You Think in Analogies Every Day (And You’re Doing It Wrong)
Try to go through a day without using an analogy. I guarantee you'll fail within an hour. Your morning coffee tastes like yesterday's batch. Traffic is moving like molasses. Your boss sounds like a br...Show More
6) How To Master Causal Thinking
$37 billion. That's how much gets wasted annually on marketing budgets because of poor attribution and misunderstanding of what actually drives results. Companies' credit campaigns that didn't work. T...Show More
7) How To Improve Your Logical Reasoning Skills
You see a headline: “Study Shows Coffee Drinkers Live Longer.” You share it in 3 seconds flat. But here's what just happened—you confused correlation with causation, inductive observation ...Show More
8) Why Thinking Skills Matter Now More Than Ever
The Crisis We're Not Talking About We're living through the greatest thinking crisis in human history—and most people don't even realize it's happening. Right now, AI generates your answers before yo...Show More
9) How to Build Innovation Thinking Skills Through Daily Journaling
Most innovation leaders are performing someone else's version of innovation thinking. I've spent decades in this field. Worked with Fortune 100 companies. And here's what I see happening everyw...Show More
10) The WSJ Got Quarterly Reporting Wrong
Michael Dell and his investors spent twenty-five billion dollars to buy back Dell Technologies. But they weren't really buying a company. They were buying freedom from quarterly earnings pressure. &nb...Show More