Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future - Archive

S3-Ep29: Translate Success Today to Success Tomorrow Using Innovation

Guest: Tamara Kleinberg
Tamara’s life is about breaking through the status quo for game-changing results –and, that’s what her clients learn how to do, too! During this show, we talk about some of the key elements that enable her clients to be successful and how those same elements can become barriers if not attended to. As we talk about the rate of change and the need to innovate – Tamara is an expert in the art and science of innovation – not just changing products but also culture and mindset. We explore: 1. What is your biggest pet peeve about only special people innovate? 2. When is it time to innovate? 3. Why do some organizations excel at developing great ideas but they can’t put them into practice? 4. Why as leaders do we need to go beyond lip service and give them tools? 5. What tools do you provide through your launchstreet platform? 6. What is an innovation quotient and an innovation archetype? How do I use this information to help position people in innovation roles?

S3-Ep28: Executive Perspective: Building Vibrancy, Increasing Engagement, Improving Performance

Guest: Richard Oliver
According to Gallup, 32% of employees are engaged in the US and 13% globally. This leads to a productivity crisis! Companies are exploring options for how to address this crisis. Thorlo's President, Richard Oliver, shares his experience addressing this issue in a 60 year old, US based, manufacturing organization. He says, there is a new possibility for how people are in relationship in organizations and families. The principles we discuss during the show are broadly applicable and focus on generative agreements that create much stronger outcomes in financial returns, organizational performance metrics and employee experience. Richard talks about how he leveraged his experience as a CPA with Deloitte to his existing practices at Thorlo with the collaboration and partnership with Jim Ritchie-Dunham at the Institute for Strategic Clarity. He gives specific concrete examples to help leaders understand how this approach is different and why it is impactful.

S3-Ep27: Leadership Lessons From Civil Unrest

Guest: Chris Cebollero
Chris was on the ground navigating the crisis in Ferguson leading the Christian Hospital EMS (CHEMS) . During this conversation, well discuss the Ferguson uprising as the backdrop to discuss the importance of a leadership vision, clear communication, clear roles and responsibilities and strong leadership that is learning on the ground as a volatile situation evolves and changes. Chris walks us through how the situation unfolded and the leadership challenges the emergency response team leaders faced. He gives a behind the scenes look at what happened, what worked and what the emergency responders learned from this uprising. He then ties the lessons learned from this event to overall leadership lessons.

S3-Ep26: The Gig Economy: Why Companies Need to Value Employees for Ideas and Results

Guest: Diane Mulcahy
Oprah-reviewed author, Forbes Top-10 business school lecturer and author of The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, talks about why companies need to value employees for their ideas and results, not time in the office and about her book. The Gig Economy transforms the way we work by disconnecting work from an office. Independent consultants, contractors, and freelancers are judged by their results and output – no matter how, where, or when they are produced - not on the time they spend in their office chair, or whether they work from 9 to 5 every day. 1. What exactly is the gig economy and how did we get here? 2. Is shifting more of the organization’s work to gig work a viable strategy to create strategic advantage for many companies? 3. How do companies get started ? 4. How do companies track results and impact?
 

S3-Ep25: Synergise! Defining 21st Century Leadership Part 2

Guest: Dr. Robin Lincoln Wood
As a futurist and leadership scholar, Robin has worked for decades dedicated to understanding how leaders develop and transform their organizations, communities and ultimately the world to thrive. During this interview, Robin discusses his latest book – Synergise! – 21st Century Leadership. We discuss the following: 1. How can your process help those aspiring to level 5 leadership to redefine success for themselves and their organisations? 2. How do the 4 C's (consciousness, capabilities, cultures and creations) impact leadership development? 3. In your fourth book “The Great Shift- Catalysing the Second Renaissance”, you sketched out a BIG VISON for the future of business and human civilisation in 2050. How close have we come to actually realizing that vision? 4. You write and speak about co-creating a thriveable future by 2050. In your book Synergise! you have set out Six Pathways to the future that leaders and organisations can position themselves on. What are they?

S3-Ep24: Elevate Your Business: Be More, Achieve More with Chris Cooper

Guest: Chris Cooper 
Whether you run your own business or work for someone else, you’ve probably got a lot on your plate. Along with the portion of your work that you truly feel like doing comes a generous helping of things you’d rather not do. With many businesses failing in their first few years, failure to do some of these things may even lead to the failure of your business. Chris talks about how to turn good intentions into action so that you can be as successful as possible in the work you do. Chris co-wrote The Power To Get Things Done (Whether You Feel Like It Or Not) with Dr Steve Levinson, a clinical psychologist based in Minnesota. We discuss what inspired the book and collaboration.
Other topics of discussion:
1. What stops people from getting things done;
2. How people should go about setting clear intentions;
3. Strategies in the book to help you get more done; and
4. The strategies Chris personally applies and how they help him.

S3-Ep23: Agreements of Transformation: 2017 Global Analysis

Guest: Christoph Hinske
Christoph discusses his findings from the experience based research exploring the patterns and specifics of societal-scale transformations in different culture. This research was commissioned by the German government and focused on global transformations outside of Germany. Christoph interviewed 22 thought leaders about their personal experience in running large scale transformation processes. Specifically he looked at the global implications of transformation exploring the patterns and specifics of societal scale transformations in different cultures. This work is now being leveraged by sustainability and transitions people around the world. During the interview, he shares common themes across cultures and transformation focus and recommendations that increase the probability of transformation success. The following quote summarizes how individuals and organizations view resources: "they are often perceived to be limited, but never scarce"

S3-Ep22: Synergise! Defining 21st Century Leadership Part 1

Guest: Dr. Robin Lincoln Wood
As a futurist and leadership scholar, Robin has worked for decades dedicated to understanding how leaders develop and transform their organizations, communities and ultimately the world to thrive. During this interview, Robin discusses his latest book – Synergise – 21st Century Leadership. Robin starts by describing the book and why it is so important during our current era. This discussion explores among other topics, why it is important to move beyond basic sustainability toward thriving. He then talks about one of the frameworks in the book focused on developing organisation, called 6C’s: Context, Combinations, Constraints, Containers/Platforms, Catalysts, and Connections. Robin explains the "6C" model and gives examples of how he uses it to help organizations move to thrivability. This book and conversation are intended to provide tools for busy leaders to use in navigating their biggest challenges.

S3-Ep20: 7 Characteristics of Leadership 2020 In Practice: A CEO Story

Guest: Michael Sayre
If we look at the continuum of leaders through the comparison of phones, at one end you have the flip phone and at the other you have the smart phone. Where do you fall on the continuum? How do you even know? During this show we will talk about the 7 characteristics of Leadership 2020 and give examples of what those specific behaviors look like in practice based on the experience of our guest, Mike Sayre. To continue the phone analogy, updating your phone means a change in hardware and software. To update yourself as a leader, you need to update your mindset and behavior. Mike will talk about both his mindset and his behaviors during difficult business transitions. These behaviors were published in the book Leadership 2050.

S3-Ep19: Board Black Holes and Taboos

Guest: Gary Patterson
Gary has been writing and presenting on board room black holes and taboos based on his research with National Association of Directors (NACD) and the Conference Board of Canada. During this show, we will talk about Gary's top 5 issues and why executives and board members need to be thinking about these high impact topics. His goal is to help leaders find blind spots before they blind side you. This discussion focuses on the top five black holes and taboos that emerged during his research: 1. Where do you make money? 2. Change - the world is changing - how quickly should your organization change? 3. Overly optimistic financial and procedures and processes. 4. Opportunity cost - what made sense once upon a time may not make sense now. 5. Face the facts - what do you measure and how much is in the rear view mirror vs. what is anticipatory? This interview is designed to help you as a leader anticipate and identify your blind spots and taboos.