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? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unusuallywellinformed/message