Lee-Anne McAlear | Innovating Inside Organizations

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?