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Innovation is a leadership challenge, not an idea challenge :: Robyn Bolton
Manage episode 362936064 series 2936072
Robyn Bolton, Founder & Chief Navigator of MileZero, discusses the importance of leadership in driving innovation and how implicit and explicit company cultures affect it. She also shares insights on how to combat cynicism about innovation.
More about our guest:
Robyn M. Bolton is the Founder & Chief Navigator of MileZero, an innovation consultancy that works with leaders of medium and large businesses to navigate the uncertainty of innovation's "fuzzy front end" to confidently grow their businesses. Prior to founding MileZero, Robyn was a Partner at Innosight, the innovation and strategy firm founded by Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, a Manager at the Boston Consulting Group, and a Brand Manager at P&G where she was on the team that developed and launched Swiffer and Swiffer Wetjet. She has a BS in Marketing cum laude with University Honors from Miami University (OH) and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Know more about her and his company here:
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
1:24 - What is innovation?
5:29 - Implicit and explicit company cultures
9:50 - Difference from other consultants
11:50 - Cynicism in innovation
14:45 - Action speaks louder than words
17:13 - Leadership and Legacy
22:12 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
128 episodes
Manage episode 362936064 series 2936072
Robyn Bolton, Founder & Chief Navigator of MileZero, discusses the importance of leadership in driving innovation and how implicit and explicit company cultures affect it. She also shares insights on how to combat cynicism about innovation.
More about our guest:
Robyn M. Bolton is the Founder & Chief Navigator of MileZero, an innovation consultancy that works with leaders of medium and large businesses to navigate the uncertainty of innovation's "fuzzy front end" to confidently grow their businesses. Prior to founding MileZero, Robyn was a Partner at Innosight, the innovation and strategy firm founded by Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, a Manager at the Boston Consulting Group, and a Brand Manager at P&G where she was on the team that developed and launched Swiffer and Swiffer Wetjet. She has a BS in Marketing cum laude with University Honors from Miami University (OH) and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Know more about her and his company here:
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
1:24 - What is innovation?
5:29 - Implicit and explicit company cultures
9:50 - Difference from other consultants
11:50 - Cynicism in innovation
14:45 - Action speaks louder than words
17:13 - Leadership and Legacy
22:12 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
128 episodes
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