Lee-Anne McAlear is an award-winning facilitator, speaker, writer and consultant. She is a program director and sought-after lecturer at the Schulich Executive Education Centre at York University, and she is a featured speaker with the National Speakers Bureau.

Lee-Anne and I discuss how organizations and leaders can develop and pursue a mission, and create innovative products and services.

Guest: Lee-Anne McAlear

Host and Producer: Tim Hampton https://www.linkedin.com/in/thetimhampton/

Virtual voice over https://www.nuance.com/ Music | Consequences by Nihilore https://youtu.be/BaWaucm-ewc

Time stamps

1:00 What drew Lee-Anne to a career helping leaders innovate?

4:18 Innovation is a strategic imperative.

5:11 Internal forces and external forces.

7:07 Comfort with the status quo.

7:54 Generational leadership and changing demographic

9:15 Distinction between “leaders of innovation” and “innovative leaders”. 

9:40 Innovation is not just in startups - most happens in existing organizations.

14:40 Define innovation vs creativity

15:06 Every organization is designed to get the results it gets.

17:53 John Kotter “Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail”

19:07 Culture and climate.

20:00 Vitality of ideas within an organization.

23:29 Managing disruptive innovation.

24:00 Both ends of the innovation spectrum - incremental and disruptive.

26:30 Incremental innovation engages people in organization.

28:00 Fostering disruptive innovation.

31:00 How the fastest runners lost the relay race.

32:16 Don’t reward siloed thinking.

32:36 Patrick Lencioni - Five dysfunctions of a team

34:00 Industrial vs organic models 

35:23 Innovation - top down, bottom up?

36:40 Corning innovation process

42:41 Innovation: a denial of service attack?

45:28 Phillips disrupts itself - a light bulb moment.

48:00 Bob Lutz: Global warming is a crock.

48:57 User centeredness.

55:36 Is creativity what happens when people get together?

56:00 Sustaining the creativity that was unleashed during the pandemic.

60:08 Ultranauts: cognitively diverse teams.

61:46 Tailoring feedback: biodex.

66:02 Keeping employees engaged.

70:46 Using Design Thinking internally.

72:53 World Economic Forum emerging skills: Active learning and learning strategies.

75:56 Complex actions take place based on simple rules, e.g. murmuration.

77:27 Google’s 9 principles of innovation.

78:52 Swaying hearts and minds.

83:56 COVID’s impact on retail.

90:46 Is the world getting better at innovation?