How can you unleash more of your organization's own talent and energy to invent the next big win in an innovation-driven economy? What do you need to do to keep your business agile and flexible amidst an everchanging professional environment? In this episode of Leadership Essentials we're sitting down with best-selling author and renowned innovation expert Dr. Simone Ahuja to get to the bottom of these questions and more.

As the founder of the innovation and strategy consulting group Blood Orange, Simone spends her time helping clients in all stages of innovation from ideation to execution. She is a regular columnist for the Harvard Business Review online and the author of the new book Disrupt It Yourself: Eight Ways to Hack a Better Business Before the Competition Does.

Simone speaks regularly to Fortune 1000 companies and has devoted her career to the art of disruptive innovation. Today's discussion covers the difference between entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and DIY-ers, cultivating a disruptive culture, organizational flexibility and much more. Shake things up and find out how you can build an environment of innovation in this episode of Leadership Essentials, hosted by Skip Lineberg.

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Disrupt It Yourself (harpercollinsleadership.com/9781595540492/disrupt-it-yourself/)

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