Innovation is a leadership challenge, not an idea challenge :: Robyn Bolton

What is Innovation?

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.
Robyn Bolton

MileZero

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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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