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Colin Knoll is a business consultant with experience in financial services and energy. He's currently the director of strategy at FIRMA Foreign Exchange, a currency exchange and global payments service. He's also the owner and principal consultant at CKC Global, a business consulting provider helping foreign nationals and businesses invest and expand into Canada.

Colin and I discuss the basics of Bitcoin, its value as an asset and its potential impact on the world. 

Please note that the content of this show is for informational purposes only. It is not legal, tax, investment or other advice. 

Guest: Colin Knoll | https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-k-7b5211159/ | https://firmafx.ca

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

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John Thacker and Jake Harrell are the hosts of "A Quality Podcast", where they discuss all things related to Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement, Lean, Six Sigma, Leadership and more. John is the author of How to Win Right Now as an Operations Supervisor. Jake is the author of Chasing Excellence.

John, Jake and I discuss the definition and pursuit of quality and explore the contrast between the lean approach of Toyota and the agile approach of Tesla. 

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

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Ethan Beute is a marketing strategist with a focus on messaging and branding. He is a bestselling author and podcast host - and the Chief Evangelist at BombBomb, a service that makes it easy to record, send and track personalized videos.

Ethan and I discuss the themes in his first book titled “Rehumanize Your Business”, co-authored with Stephen Pacinelli.

Guest: Ethan Beute | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanbeute/ 

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

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Joe Justice is the author of the book titled “Scrum Master”, published in 7 languages. Joe has worked with Bill Gates, the leadership team at Amazon, and operated the Agile program at Tesla for Elon Musk. Joe founded WIKISPEED which became an example of fast and agile automotive design and production in a fun, egalitarian culture.

Joe shared amazing insights on how Tesla maintains its pace of innovation; the merits of chaos; the use of digital twins, Elon Musk's boundless Master Plan; and the motivational difference between Elon, Bezos and Gates.

Guest: Joe Justice | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joejustice/

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

Cynefin framework: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework

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Sandra Wendel is a book editor, feature writer, and publishing consultant. She has been the author’s editor for many award-winning, well-respected nonfiction books. Among her many happy clients is Dennis Geelen, author of "The Zero In Formula" and former guest on this podcast. Sandra is the author of "Cover to Cover: What First-Time Authors Need to Know about Editing". Sandra and I discuss how the first-time author can get their manuscript polished and published.

Guest: Sandra Wendel

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

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Katie Anderson is an internationally recognized leadership coach, consultant and speaker with over 20 years of expertise developing people-centered learning cultures across a range of industries. Katie and I discuss her bestselling book "Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn"

Guest: Katie Anderson https://www.linkedin.com/in/kbjanderson/

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

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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/

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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?

Dr. Egbert Edelbroek is the CEO and founder of SpaceBorn United. When humanity permanently settles beyond Earth, there will be a first generation of us born in space. Egbert and I discuss his work exploring the challenges of human reproduction in Earth-orbit and beyond.

Host and Producer: Tim Hampton

Guest: Dr. Egbert Edelbroek

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Laura Forczyk is an astrophysicist and planetary scientist. She is founder of the space consulting firm Astralytical. Laura has worked with NASA-related research and the international space industry for over 15 years. Laura and I discuss the exciting developments in space industry and technology as well as her book “Rise of the Space Age Millennials”.

Host and Producer: Tim Hampton

Guest: Laura Forczyk

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Sid Apaya is a partner at Elements Ventures Accelerator, Chief Operating Officer at Modgarden and a strategy and transformation consultant. Sid and I discuss his mission to reduce the rate of innovation failure and the future of food and nutrition.

Host and Producer: Tim Hampton

Guest: Sid Apaya

EVA Ventures

ModGarden

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