447: What Innovators Do Differently with Hal Gregersen
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Hal Gregersen reveals the key skills of disruptive innovators–and how you can get them too.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The core five skills required for innovation.
2) The questions disruptive innovators ask.
3) How to network for new idea.
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— ABOUT HAL —
Hal Gregersen is the Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research by exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and deliver positive, powerful results.
• Hal’s Book: “The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators” with Jeff Dyer and Clayton Christensen
• Hal’s other book: “Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems At Work and in Life” with Ed Catmull
• Hal’s website: www.HalGregersen.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Companies mentioned: Aramex, Azul Brazilian Airlines, Intuit, JetBlue, Magnolia Market at the Silos, Moxy, PIXAR, Xero
• Event: SXSW Conference & Festivals
• Innovators mentioned: Chip and Joanna Gaines, Clayton M. Christensen, David Neeleman, Diane Greene, E. B. White, Fadi Ghandour, Jeff Bezos, Jeff Dyer, June Morris, Marc Benioff, Niklas Zennstrom, Peter Thiel, Rod Drury, Scott Cook
• Product: Kutol Wall Cleaner
• Software: Chatter, QuickBooks, Quicken
• Term: Combinatorial play
• Book: “The Magnolia Story” by Chip and Joanna Gaines, and Mark Dagostino
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fund, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us for episode 447 with Hal Gregerson. |
| 0:23.5 | Hal is back and he is talking about innovation. |
| 0:25.8 | He's teamed up with some of the most brilliant folks studying this |
| 0:29.6 | with another book called The Innovators DNA. |
| 0:32.3 | So he's got some good stuff to share, such as one, |
| 0:35.2 | the core skills required for innovation. |
| 0:37.2 | Two, the questions disruptive innovators ask, |
| 0:39.6 | and three, how to network for new ideas. |
| 0:41.8 | So if you'd like to take a look at the show notes, |
| 0:43.4 | the transcript or the links to items we've referenced, |
| 0:45.3 | it's over at awesome at your job.com |
| 0:47.2 | slash f-47. |
| 0:49.3 | And here's Hal's story. |
| 0:50.4 | Hal Gregerson is the executive director |
| 0:52.2 | of MIT Leadership Center and a senior lecturer in |
| 0:55.2 | Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his |
| 0:59.1 | vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research by exploring how leaders in business, government, and society |
| 1:04.4 | discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, |
| 1:09.6 | and deliver positive powerful results. |
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