The Innovation Show

This episode aims to empower young women and give some tips to parents and mentors along the way.

Recast yourself - Own your wins - Define your legacy - Leverage your success Written by Randy Patterson, the CEO of a multimillion-dollar startup, The Matriarch Rules provides you with guidelines that empower you to find personal success and growth in being the compassionate, powerful, and forward-thinking woman you are.

Achieve success by becoming the change maker you were always meant to be. What is a matriarch? For one thing, you can tell she's in charge the second she walks into a room. She's bold, she's fierce, and she's got her own unique style. The matriarch isn't some crusty old lady dressed head-to-toe in black who sits at the head of the table barking demands at Sunday dinner.

The modern matriarch is alive and vivacious. She's purposeful and deliberate about everything, from her career, to her home, to her family, to what she eats for lunch. She is not second guessing herself but moving herself and those she loves boldly into the future.

The matriarch's vision for her career is as big as her love for her family, and she's paid her worth for work she's passionate about. The matriarch knows exactly what she wants the end game to be and she has the power to make it come to fruition. Simply put: she has her act together and you feel safer and more secure when you're in her presence. So, the question is, how does one become her? This episode answers that question and more. - Recast yourself - Own your wins - Define your legacy - Leverage your success.

Today's leaders are getting stuck at an ever-increasing rate as they reach outside their core capabilities in search of growth. After experiencing this himself, and observing countless other CEOs facing a similar battle, our guest decided to do something about it.

Craig Lemasters leveraged his extensive leadership experience to develop a unique perspective around why this phenomenon keeps happening and what leaders can do to break free. His book guides readers through examples of some of the most common challenges preventing progress and teaches them how to intentionally tap into the vast knowledge and experience of others.

More about Craig here:

https://craiglemasters.com

https://gxg.co/

There are plenty of leadership how-to books, filled with advice such as "Just do this to get ahead!" Lots of books tell you how to become a leader, this book tells you how to stay successful once you've reached a leadership role.

This episode and today's book helps aspiring, early-stage, and experienced leaders alike answer a critical question: "How will I use my leadership power?"

Being a good leader doesn't require being a bad person, and if you know what to look out for, you can keep your ego and hubris in check and become (and stay) a leader who is effective, successful, and good.

We welcome Bill Treasurer, the author of: "The Leadership Killer: Reclaiming Humility in an Age of Arrogance."

More about Bill here:

https://www.giantleapconsulting.com/killer/

Kris Østergaard provides real-world advice and research-based information on how to grow innovation by employing new technologies, improving processes, and establishing a culture of creativity and forward momentum.

Conventional business wisdom views innovation as the biggest advantage startups have over large, established organizations, often referred to as legacy organizations.

This belief is false, especially when considering that 70% of all startups fail within 20 months of their first venture round. The truth is innovation initiatives of legacy organizations have far better chances of succeeding.

Organizations with superior resources—money, customers, suppliers, data, employees, infrastructure—can overcome challenges from new entrepreneurial ventures: knowing how to leverage their underutilized advantage is key for achieving sustained, long-term innovation success.

More about Kris here:

https://krisoestergaard.com/

https://su.org/about/faculty/kris-ostergaard/

Our bonus guest is a neuroscientist and pioneer in the field of NeuroLeadership. She trained at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and is a McKinsey consultant; she delivers brain-based leadership programs to Fortune 500 executives and organisations around the globe to transform how they think, innovate, and navigate change.

Her book "The Leading Brain: Neuroscience Hacks to Work Smarter, Better, Happier" has been translated into several languages and received many awards and that book was the focus of episode 86 of the Innovation show.

Neuroscientist and author Friederike Fabritius shares how fear makes us think less effectively and changes both our physiology and our neurochemistry.

We discuss:

• The Neuroscience of Fear
• The Neurochemistry of fear
• How our thinking is less effective
• How the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting us
• Concerns for the post Covid-19 world

More about Friederike https://www.fabulous-brain.com/

Want to avoid business disasters, whether minor mishaps, such as excessive team conflict, or major calamities like those that threaten bankruptcy or doom a promising career?

Fortunately, behavioural economics studies show that such disasters stem from poor decisions because of our faulty mental patterns - what scholars call "cognitive biases" - and are preventable.

Unfortunately, the typical advice for business leaders to "go with their guts" plays into these cognitive biases and leads to disastrous decisions that devastate the bottom line. By combining practical case studies with cutting-edge research, Never Go With Your Gut will help you make the best decisions and prevent these business disasters.

Our guest is a leading expert on avoiding business disasters and draws on over 20 years of extensive consulting, coaching, and speaking experience to show how pioneering leaders and organisations - many of them his clients - avoid business disasters.

You can find out more about Gleb here: https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/

"No matter how good the chief innovation officer may be, no matter how creative and entrepreneurial an innovation team, they cannot successfully create new market growth for an organisation unless the leadership team is directly involved in their work, guiding them with their long term vision and strategy, helping them to create the right processes to move their ventures forward and protecting them from competition from the core Absent that high-level attention, those ventures might never get off the ground." - Mark Johnson

We all know a visionary leader when we see one.

They're bold and prophetic and at the same time pragmatic.

They don't just promote change--they drive it, while inspiring and mobilising others to do the same.

Visionaries like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos possess a host of innate qualities that make them extraordinary, but what truly sets them apart is their ability to turn vision into action.

Our guest introduces a new way of thinking and managing, called "future-back," that enables any manager to become a practical visionary.

Addressing the many barriers to change that exist in established organisations, he presents a systematic approach to overcoming them that includes:

• The principles and mind-set that allow leadership teams to look beyond typical short-term planning horizons
• A method for turning emerging challenges into the growth opportunities that can define an organisation's future
• A step-by-step approach for translating a vision into a strategic plan that teams can align around and commit to
• Ways to ensure that visionary thinking becomes a repeatable organisational capability

We welcome Mark Johnson, founder of Innosight and author of "Lead from the Future Lead from the Future: How to Turn Visionary Thinking Into Breakthrough Growth"

More about the book: https://www.innosight.com/insight/lead-from-the-future/

The HBR article referenced during the episode: https://hbr.org/2020/04/leaders-do-you-have-a-clear-vision-for-the-post-crisis-future