Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

Welcome to our very first Fast Fix Friday, a short 5 minute or less morsel of knowledge to inspire and inject some fresh thinking into your day and get you ready for the weekend as you reflect on the week that was! In this episode, I look at Pixar's brain trust - a mechanism the company uses to do away with sugarcoating and the human tendencies to not say what we really think - which ultimately stands in the way of creativity and innovation. Give this podcast a listen! Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy Show Notes: - Creativity Inc, Ed Catmull (book) If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to [email protected] or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs. Download it at www.theinnovationmanagershandbook.com Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us

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Flow has been defined as a mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus. The term was first coined by Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975 and is often referred to as as ‘the zone’, however few people truly appreciate that ‘the zone’ is actually a physiological state.

Why did I choose to write about a topic that may at first glance seem to have more to do with psychology and physiological science than business innovation?

The answer is simple.

A 10-year McKinsey and Co. study on flow and productivity found top executives 500% more productive when in flow. Interested in finding out more?

Give this podcast a listen!

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Braden Kelley is an experienced innovation and change speaker, trainer, and digital transformation strategist. He specializes in building cultures of continuous and accelerating innovation and change. He is the author of "Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire" and "Charting Change", and has been advising companies on how to increase their revenue and cut their costs since 1996.

Braden writes frequently on the topic of continuous innovation and works with clients to create innovative strategies, organizational change, digital transformation, and improved organizational performance.

Braden is passionate about innovation and has published more than 650 articles for online publications.

In his spare time, Braden is a co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of the popular global innovation community –InnovationExcellence.com – home to 7,500+ innovation articles and is an innovation leader on Twitter (@innovate) with 18,500+ hard-earned followers. He was previously Improvement and Innovation Manager at Premera Blue Cross, Change and Marketing Strategist at Business Strategy Innovation and is currently an Innovation and Change Strategy Consultant with Liberty Mutual Insurance.

 

Topics Discussed:

- How we can reduce the 70% change program failure rate

- How to build a culture that supports lean startup

- Braden's Change Planning Toolkit

- How to tackle resistance to change

- Agile change

- How to change the culture to support innovation without compromising the core business

 

 

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Whitney Johnson was recognized as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers in 2015, and was a finalist for the Top thinkers on Talent at the biennial Thinkers50 ceremony in London. She is best known for her work on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption.

She is formerly the co-founder of Rose Park Advisors alongside Clayton Christensen, world renowned author of The Innovator's Dilemma and innovation thought leader, where they invested in and led the $8 million seed round for Korea’s Coupang, currently valued at $5+ billion.

Johnson is also a frequent contributor to and writer for the Harvard Business Review, and is a Linkedinfluencer.

She is the author of the critically acclaimed Disrupt Yourself (2015) and Dare, Dream Do (2012).

She has received widespread recognition for her thinking and was named one of Fortune’s 55 Most Influential Women on Twitter in 2014. She co-founded the popular Forty Women Over Forty to Watch and is a fellow at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards.

 

Topics Discussed:

- Her book, Disrupt Yourself

- Why we must disrupt ourselves with the future of our jobs being more uncertain than ever

- How the concept of disrupting yourself aligns with Clayton Christensen's concept of disruptive innovation

- How our very own KPIs and short term targets are often used as an excuse to prevent us doing what we love and chasing our  passions, and ultimately lead us to being disrupted

- How can you disrupt yourself without compromising the way you make money today

- how disrupting yourself SHOULD feel lonely

- How the well worn path promises a limited reward

- How disrupting yourself leads to 20X revenue potential

- How disrupting yourself is initially supposed to be a slow process riddled with "am I doing the right thing?" questions

- Both Whitney's and my stories of personal disruption

- The concept of 'disruptive strengths'

 

Show Notes:

Get Whitney's books on Amazon:

• Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work - https://amzn.to/2I7hTbT
• Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream - https://amzn.to/2I5QOWt
• Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve - https://amzn.to/2xvpDQU

 

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Steve Blank is considered by many to be the godfather of Silicon Valley and is credited with spearheading the customer development model which birthed the lean startup, popularised by his former pupil Eric Ries' book of the same name. He is one of the most prominent and widely respected thought leaders in the world on innovation and entrepreneurship.

Over the last 35 years, Steve has been part of, or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups. These have run the gamut from semiconductors, video games, personal computers, and supercomputers. (MIPS, Zilog, Rocket Science, SuperMac, Convergent Technologies, Ardent, ESL) Steve's last company was E.piphany, an enterprise software company.

Steve currently teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley-Haas Business School, Columbia University, NYU, Stanford University Engineering School and UCSF. In 2009 he was awarded the Stanford University Undergraduate Teaching Award in the department of Management Science and Engineering.

In 2011 the National Science Foundation adopted his Lean Launchpad class as the U.S. standard for commercializing basic and applied research via the Innovation Corps.

 

Topics Discussed:

- the corporate innovation outpost

- the evolution of corporate R&D

- getting to "yes" for corporate innovation

- why entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs are not the same

- why horizon 1 systems don't support horizon 3 innovation

- why horizon 3 or disruptive innovation requires a little bit of crazy

- innovation in the public sector

- how important it is to get the culture right

- acquisitions and innovation

- if he could work for any company in the world at any stage of their lifecycle, which would it be and why

 

There were definitely some nerves in the lead up to this interview given that Steve is somebody who I have the upmost admiration for in the space of innovation and entrepreneurship and some of those nerves might have shone through during moments in this podcast so feel free to have a laugh at my expense! :)

 

 

Show Notes:

- SteveBlank.com

- Four Steps to the Epiphany (book): https://amzn.to/2zoUH6e

- The Startup Owner's Manual (book): https://amzn.to/2MSAfOt

- Twitter: @sgblank

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In this episode I had the pleasure of chatting with native New York native and one of the most influential CMOs in the world, Ted Rubin.

Ted is a leading Social Marketing Strategist, Keynote Speaker and Brand Evangelist and evangelized the term ROR: Return on Relationship™, a concept he believes is the cornerstone for building an engaged multi-million member database, many of whom are vocal advocates for the brand.

Many people in the social media world know Ted for his enthusiastic, energetic and undeniably personal connection to people. Ted is the most followed CMO on Twitter according to Social Media Marketing Magazine; one of the most interesting CMOs on Twitter according to Say Media, #13 on Forbes Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers, and number #2 on the Leadtail list of Top 25 People Most Mentioned by digital marketers. ROR is the basis of his philosophy…It’s All About Relationships!

His book, Return on Relationship, was released in 2013, and How To Look People in the Eye Digitally in 2015.

Ted has a deep online background beginning in 1997 working with best selling author, entrepreneur and agent of change Seth Godin at Yoyodyne, which was acquired in 1998 by Yahoo!

His personal motto is Life is not about waiting for the
storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.

We discussed a number of topics, including:

- Customer Experience in 2016

- Return on Relationship

- Looking People in the Eye Digitally

- The Age of Influence, how ANYBODY can become influential without leaving their house

- Balancing pressure to cut costs, automate and offshore with increasing customer service expectations

- How Social Media is NOT about screaming marketing messages from from the tree-tops

- Tools to help you build and nurture ROR

- Empowering Your Employees to Increase ROR

- We also talked about some of our favourite books and philosophised a little on life towards the end of the show

 

Show Notes:

- For find out a little bit more about Ted, download some thought leadership of his or to pick up a copy of his books head to tedrubin.com and returnonrelationship.com.

- Search for 'Twitter Basics' at TedRubin.com to find out some of the tools that Ted Rubin and his team uses to build ROR

- To download 'The 12 Most Important Ways to Build a Return on Relationship' head to RORPro.com

- RocketReach.com (find anyone's email address)

 

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Ben Yoskovitz is the co-author of Lean Analytics, a guide for organisations who want to use data to grow new businesses faster.

Ben has been the VP of Product at GoInstant, acquired by Salesforce in 2012, he was the founding partner at Year One Labs, an early stage seed acecelerator based in Montreal. One of the companies that came through the program, Localmind, was acquired by Airbnb.

He’s also made 15+ angel investments and runs the Instigator Blog which focuses on lean startup, product management and entrepreneurship.

Our discussion covers the following and more:

- origins of lean analytics

- defining the one metric that matters

- what does success look like?

- analytics for non-tech companies

- analytics for large companies

- how much data do you need to make a decision?

- knowing when to pivot or persevere

- how lean analytics can help product speak finance's language

- machine gun testing v targeted testing

- using lean analytics in small markets to support the
exploration of disruptive innovation

 

Show Notes:

For more on Ben Yoskovitz head to InstigatorBlog.com.

You can purchase Lean Analytics (book) here: https://amzn.to/2QTnruH

 

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David Burkus is the author of the The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas. He is Associate Professor of Management at Oral Roberts University where he teaches courses on creativity, entrepreneurship, and organizational behavior. He is also the founder and host of LDRLB, a podcast on leadership, innovation, and strategy. He has just released Under New Management, how leading organizations are upending business as usual, in which he challenges many of the long-standing management disciplines we take for granted with new and radical alternatives that seem to be working at some of today’s more progressive organisations.

 

 Our discussion touches on:

- putting employees first and customers second

- self managing teams

- lean performance reviews

- living, breathing org charts

- activity based working and why it's not always a good thing

- unlimited vacation policies

- banning email

- Oklahoma City Thunder's chances in the NBA Playoffs

 

Show Notes: 

To find out more about David Burkus, head to davidburkus.com.

To secure a copy of his new book, Under New Management, head to: https://amzn.to/2xMaji0

 

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David Binetti comes to us all the way from San Francisco’s sunny bay area...he is a 6 times entrepreneur - served on the founding teams of Quicken.com, Arch Rock which was acquired by Cisco, Votizen which was acquired by Brigade Media and USA.Gov. Today he is a management consultant who works with large companies to help them innovate. He’ll be talking to us about Innovation Options, a valuation framework that supports measuring learning in dollars and helps organisations innovate faster with less risk. This, he says, ultimately allows Finance and Product to speak a common language in achieving a common goal. For more information on the framework head over to innovation-options.com For additional resources on how to innovate in the enterprise such as blogs, podcasts, tools and our free ebook, The Innovation Manager's Handbook, head over to collectivecamp.us

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Fabio Oliveira is Kmart Australia's newly anointed Innovation Program Manager. Prior to joining Kmart he was Managing Director at design agency Huddle Academy and worked for the Kaizen Institute, Telefonica and Johnson & Johnson in Brazil.

 

Topics addressed:

- design thinking

- business model innovation v technology innovation

- why large companies should engage startups to drive innovation

- customer experience

- key trends in retail

- innovation for low cost retailers

- the store of the future

- how legacy systems can inhibit innovation in retail

- the importance of co-creation to drive cultural change

- stage gate versus iterative development

 

If you'd like to contact Fabio, you can do so by emailing [email protected] To find out more about the mindsets, methodologies and tools required to innovate in the enterprise, head to www.collectivecamp.uswww.collectivecamp.us

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