Looking to unleash an innovation revolution inside your company? On this week’s episode of “The Innovation Engine” podcast, we’ll look at why the era we’re living in calls for radical new ways of running a business, why you should regularly kill the processes or habits that make the least sense, and why haters can actually be one of your company’s most valuable resources.
Our guest this week is Lisa Bodell, CEO of futurethink and award-winning author. At futurethink, Lisa has helped thousands of senior leaders ignite innovation at organizations like the New York Stock Exchange, Pfizer, Google, Lockheed Martin, and many others. She is an inspiring speaker who brings her message to nearly 100,000 people in more than 30 countries each year, and she was recently awarded the Top 5 Speaker Award by Speaking.com. She is also the author of the best-selling book Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution, which won the 2014 Axiom Best Business Book Award and was voted Best Business Book by USA Book News and Booz & Co.
Lisa serves as a member of the Global Agenda Council for the World Economic Forum, an adviser on the boards of the Association of Professional Futurists, and Novartis’ Diversity and Inclusion Board in Basel, Switzerland. She has also taught courses on innovation at American University and Fordham Universities. Some of her notable television appearances have been for NPR and Fox News and for publications like the New York Times, WIRED, and Fast Company.
Here are some of the highlights from this episode of the podcast with Lisa Bodell:
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