The Bottleneck Is Never What You Think It Is

After 50+ conversations on The Disruption Lab, one pattern keeps surfacing: the thing that slows down innovation is almost never the technology. It’s the invisible friction — trust gaps, procurement processes, cultural resistance, systems not designed to absorb change at the speed it arrives. In this solo episode, Kevin McGinnis connects threads across the show’s catalog — from clinical trials to community development to AI-driven workforce transformation — and names the structural problem nobody wants to talk about. We don’t have an innovation shortage. We have an absorption problem.