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
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-anne-mcalear-062a69/
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?