CD032 Leading in an Age of Unpredictability with Marguerite O'Neal

This weekend, the complex and sensitive trade issue was addressed as G7 leaders met in Quebec, Canada. The result was a consensus between all of the G7 leaders, and yet, according to the media, there was a "war of words" between President Donald Trump and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following the consensus.

Many people believe the breakdown in the agreement made at the G7 summit over the weekend was prompted by Prime Minister Trudeau and later responded to by President Trump.

As leaders of our organizations, it is important to evaluate scenarios like this - to identify where we believe communication breakdowns occur and how these breakdowns may be occurring within our own organizations. It is also critical that, once we identify when communication breakdowns occur, we take necessary steps to find a solution quickly.

On today's episode, I discuss the importance of addressing complex and complicated issues within your organization and how the Age of Unpredictability can often lead to ambiguity and uncertainty. I share how applying Dr. David Weiss' advice on creating an environment where people are openly willing to discuss things they don't know can help distinguish complex problems from complicated problems. I also share my advice on how you can create an environment within your organization to allow managers and executive leaders to share ideas and solutions to complex and complicated issues openly.

"In this Age of Unpredictability, we can help bring a sense of calm to our organizations by reducing uncertainty and anxiety." - Marguerite O'Neal

Today on the Creative Disruption Podcast:

• The G7 consensus on the trade issue.
• The "war of words" between President Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
• Lessons we can learn from the G7 consensus and debate.
• How Dr. David Weiss' insight can be applied in your organization.
• How organization leaders can create an environment where managers and executive leaders can share ideas and solutions openly.

3 Strategic Questions to Ask During Your Next Executive Meeting:

1. How are we separating complex from complicated issues in our organization?
2. How are decisions on complex issues communicated at various levels within our organization to ensure understanding and buy in?
3. What new information are we as senior leaders contributing to help managers and their teams solve complicated problems they are facing?

Resources:

• Episode 11 - Crushing Complexity, Calming Conflict with David Weiss

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Michelle Moore, Vice President and National Practice Lead of the Executive Career Solutions group at LHH Knightsbridge, has been recognized as a thought leader in digital disruption. She has over 20 years experience working with executive-level individuals and global organizations to solve complex business problems and maximize career success. She strongly believes that leaders need a firm understanding on the impact that technology - as well as an organization's people - have to drive innovation and positively impact the future of their businesses.

 

Michelle joins me today to share her insight on what “disruptive talent” is, the importance of nurturing it in your organization, and  how hiring disruptive talent within your organization can help your business drive innovation.

 

 

“Innovation is no longer optional.” - Michelle Moore

 

 

Today on the Creative Disruption Podcast:

 

• The importance of understanding how technology can positively impact an organization
• How to encourage innovation within your organization
• The ingredients for having an agile company
• Ways to speed innovation
• How to attract, identify, integrate, and evaluate “disruptive talent” within your organization
• How she realized she was a disruptor
• Are millennials a “cohort of disruptors?”

 

 

Michelle’s Advice for Future-Proofing Your Business:

 

• Make sure you are building out innovations as a repeatable and sustainable business capability
• Bring in disruptive talent

 

 

Connect with Michelle Moore:

 

• LHH Knightsbridge blog
• Twitter
• Email: [email protected]

 

 

 

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Dominique O'Rourke is the Founder and Principal of Accolade Communications. A seasoned and respected public affair professional, she has over 20 years of experience helping private, public, and non-profit organizations with concerns related to issues management, crisis communication, corporate social responsibility, media and brand government relations, and reputation management. Additionally, throughout her career, she has conducted extensive research on building and maintaining inter-organizational trust.

Dominique joins me today to discuss the importance of building trust within your organization and the cost associated with an absence of trust. She shares what motivates her passion of helping organizational leaders build, improve, and maintain high levels of trust within their organizations and the benefits of building trust between your brand, your clients and customers, as well as your employees. She also shares valuable insight on how to identify when your organization's trust is beginning to erode, how the level of trust within your organization impacts quality, performance, and relationships, and how to display your company's ethics and values to everyone involved with your organization.

"Trust equals capability and benevolence." - Dominique O'Rourke

Today on the Creative Disruption Podcast:

• Why building trust is critical to your organization's success
• How inter-organizational trust impacts your company's cost in performance as well as relationships
• Common signs of inter-organizational trust erosion
• The importance of analyzing your ethical approach to your organization
• How structure and culture impacts trust-building behaviors
• The importance of consistently showing the same level of ethics to everyone within your organization as well as your customers and suppliers

Dominique O'Rourke's Advice for Displaying Trustworthiness:

• Consider what your work facility or online space indicates about you.

Connect with Dominique O'Rourke:

• Accolade Communications
• Download: Ethics Test to Bulletproof Your Business

Trust Across America, Trust Around the World

Shaun Samaroo is the CEO of Qualped, a startup company based in Oshawa, Ontario dedicated to transforming the way people consume academic information and disrupting the publishing industry through hybrid digital-print solutions. He is an accomplished and experienced journalist, media specialist, and author with over 20 years of experience in the digital and print publishing industry.

Shaun joins me today to discuss how he developed his innovative idea of helping universities and post-graduate students generate revenue from academic theses. He explains what Qualped means and the mission behind the company, why he is passionate helping people share their stories as well as helping post-grad students and universities raise revenue, and how he is transforming the digital and print publishing industry through his innovative, dynamic media technology. He shares the challenges he has faced while launching his startup company and the shift he experienced in his mindset to help him accomplish his goals of scaling the business. He also shares how finding a coach and mentor has impacted his ability to achieve his leadership and entrepreneurial goals as well as tips for bringing innovations to market.

"We shouldn't be thinking about an idea that makes money. We should be thinking about solutions." - Shaun Samaroo

Today on the Creative Disruption Podcast:

• How he is transforming the publishing industry by creating dynamic, interactive media content
• Qualped's mission
• How his childhood experiences impacted his desire to become a writer and journalist
• The importance of surrounding yourself with people who inspire, motivate and believe in you
• Finding support from other businesses and organizations
• Challenges he currently faces and how he is overcoming them
• How he transitioned his mindset from being the visionary of the company to adopting a CEO mindset
• What he envisions his legacy to become

Shaun Samaroo's Leadership Insight for Introducing Disruptive Technology:

• Do your homework. Do the hard work. Do the research.
• Find a coach or mentor.
• Know and understand the sacrifices and financial costs associated with bringing new technology to market.

Resources:

• Spark Innovation

Connect with Shaun Samaroo:

• Qualped website

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Laura Bosworth is the co-founder and CEO of TeVido BioDevices, a biotech startup company dedicated to using 3D bioprinting and tissue cells for reconstructive surgery for women with breast cancer. She is a former Fortune 50 executive with over 25 years of experience in cross-functional industries and has been featured in numerous publications including CNBC, CNN, and The Economist.

Laura joins me today to share how she embraced abundance while growing her startup through innovation and creative ideas. She explains the challenges she has faced to attract funding, how listening to feedback and critique helped her launch her idea into the market faster and cheaper for investors and consumers, and the importance of balancing perseverance and stubbornness to advance your career, your product, or your idea.

"You have to persevere. You have to stay with it, but you can't be too stubborn." Laura Bosworth

Today on the Creative Disruption Podcast:

• Challenges she faced to attract investor funding for her innovative ideas and how she overcame those challenges.
• The importance of entrepreneurs and startups to consider feedback despite feeling frustrated.
• Overcoming feeling confused with conflicting ideas and feedback.
• The importance of balancing your perseverance and stubbornness to move your idea forward.
• Understanding your customer's needs and homing in on them.

Laura Bosworth's Advice for Startup CEOs:

1. Listen to advice, critique, and feedback.
2. Ask questions.
3. Persevere - but don't be too stubborn.

Connect with Laura Bosworth:

• TeVido BioDevices
• Email: [email protected]

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Do you want to start your leadership legacy as a member of the C-level group? Collaborate with me to begin building your irresistible CEO brand by discovering the superpower leadership moves you can make that will make a difference in your career. Email me at [email protected] today.

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Going out of your comfort zone to take the big leap in your career is a brave thing to do. While this effort to take that leap could lead to being one step closer to your dream job, there may be implications you will need to deal with that can impact your career or personal life.

Today, I'll discuss how to break through the upper limits of your career and avoid self-sabotaging behaviors that could impact your life and career. I'll also share a superpower move that you can apply when you have a fast increase of wealth, a wonderful relationship that takes your breath away, or a boost in creativity.

"Any fear you may feel when you decide to level up your career is caused by an upper limit problem that you have." - Marguerite O'Neal

Today on the Creative Disruption Podcast:

• The impact that setting limits and boundaries on your wealth, creativity, and success can have on your career
• Where dissatisfaction and being stuck in your comfort zone could lead to
• What regulates your comfort zone
• How to reset your upper limit threshold to achieve the next level of success in your career
• The effects of taking a big leap in your career

Advice for Future-Proofing Your Business:

• Take the time to think deeply and understand what's causing your upper limit problem that is preventing you from achieving your next level of success.
• Discuss your aspirations with those you care about.
• Take the big leap to create a happy future for yourself and those you love

Resources Mentioned:

• The Big Leap Book by Gay Hendricks

Level Up through Your Superhero Move!

Do you want to start your leadership legacy as a member of the C-level group? Collaborate with me to begin building your irresistible CEO brand by discovering the superpower leadership moves you can make that will make a difference in your career. Email me at [email protected] today.

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Thank you for joining me this week on the Creative Disruption podcast! If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to iTunes to subscribe and leave your honest feedback. Don't forget to share your favorite episodes with fellow CEOs to help them disrupt the status quo thinking and cement the future of their businesses.

Michelle Moore, Vice President and National Practice Lead of the Executive Career Solutions group at LHH Knightsbridge, has been recognized as a thought leader in digital disruption. She has over 20 years experience working with executive-level individuals and global organizations to solve complex business problems and maximize career success. She strongly believes that leaders need a firm understanding on the impact that technology - as well as an organization's people - have to drive innovation and positively impact the future of their businesses.

 

Michelle joins me today to share her insight on what “disruptive talent” is, the importance of nurturing it in your organization, and  how hiring disruptive talent within your organization can help your business drive innovation.

 

 

“Innovation is no longer optional.” - Michelle Moore

 

 

Today on the Creative Disruption Podcast:

 

• The importance of understanding how technology can positively impact an organization
• How to encourage innovation within your organization
• The ingredients for having an agile company
• Ways to speed innovation
• How to attract, identify, integrate, and evaluate “disruptive talent” within your organization
• How she realized she was a disruptor
• Are millennials a “cohort of disruptors?”

 

 

Michelle’s Advice for Future-Proofing Your Business:

 

• Make sure you are building out innovations as a repeatable and sustainable business capability
• Bring in disruptive talent

 

 

Connect with Michelle Moore:

 

• LHH Knightsbridge blog
• Twitter
• Email: [email protected]

 

 

 

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Thank you for joining me this week on the Creative Disruption podcast! If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to iTunes to subscribe and leave your honest feedback. Don’t forget to share your favorite episodes with fellow CEOs to help them disrupt the status quo thinking and cement the future of their businesses

Laura Bosworth is the CEO of TeVido BioDevices, a company dedicated to developing cutting-edge reconstructive and cosmetic surgery and advanced cellular therapy techniques for breast cancer survivors. She has been recognized as a former Fortune 50 executive, received her Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering, and volunteered with several non-profit organizations focused on supporting women’s needs in S.T.E.M fields.

 

Laura joins me today to share her journey, why she became inspired to develop cellular therapy and manufacturing techniques within the healthcare industry, as well as the challenges she has faced as a startup CEO. She also shares her insight on what it takes to be a successful startup entrepreneur and the importance of remaining flexible in your work environment.

 

 

“The key is perseverance, stubbornness, and flexibility.” - Laura Bosworth

 

 

Today on the Creative Disruption Podcast:

 

• How being curious about how her role within an organization related to the “bigger picture” helped open the doors of opportunity for future career advancement
• Her challenges as the CEO of a startup company
• How she found financial support as a startup CEO
• Understanding the need of the customer and linking it to funding
• Changes she would like to see in the healthcare industry
• Challenges associated with being on the leading edge of technology
• The challenges of bringing healthcare manufacturing costs down to provide solutions to more people
• How she attracts and retains people in her organization
• Honing in on the “missing piece” of your customers to future-proof your business

 

 

Laura Bosworth’s Advice for Startup CEOs:

 

• Listen to advisors and ask them “why?”
• Stay with it, but don’t be too stubborn.

 

 

Connect with Laura Bosworth:

 

• TeVido BioDevices
• Email: [email protected]

 

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Thank you for joining me this week on the Creative Disruption podcast! If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to iTunes to subscribe and leave your honest feedback. Don’t forget to share your favorite episodes with fellow CEOs to help them disrupt the status quo thinking and cement the future of their businesses.

Welcome to the Creative Disruption podcast with your host, Marguerite O'Neal. Marguerite is a business strategist and former pharmaceutical executive and over the last several years, she has served as the Chief Human Resources Officer of a pharmaceutical company.

Marguerite has been named one of North America's Top Female Executives for dedication, achievement, and leadership in company organizational development by Elite Women Worldwide in December 2015. Her company, Marguerite O'Neal Consulting Inc. helps CEOs of small and mid-size organizations disrupt the rigid "status quo" thinking and crush their competition.

Today, Marguerite explains why she is so passionate about helping CEOs smash the status quo thinking and why she believes it is the key to helping companies future-proof their business.

"The CEOs who thrive will be those who can accurately predict the trends and adjust in time." - Marguerite O'Neal

Today on the Creative Disruption Podcast:

• 35% of Canadian companies have experienced digital disruption over the last 3 years
• 52% of 4,000 executives surveyed across 12 countries experienced significant disruption in their industries over the last three years
• Under 50% of executives surveyed say they don't know what their industry will look like in the next three years

What You Can Expect from the Creative Disruption Podcast:

• Conversations challenging conventional, status quo thinking
• Weekly interviews with CEOs on how they have successfully smashed the status quo and brought new ideas and innovations to market
• Practical insights on how to future-proof your business

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Dr. Jeanette Hill is the founder and CEO of Spot On Sciences, Inc., an award-winning biotech company that is responsible for developing medical devices that allow consumers to take pre-clinical blood samples in the comfort of their homes. The company has received numerous awards for business and innovation.