Think like an intrapreneur, w/Mach49's Linda Yates
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Innovation is the lifeblood of the startup — from product to processes and culture to creativity. But innovation is just as essential for scale companies. So how do you keep the innovation flywheel spinning at all levels of scale? The answer according to Linda Yates is to seed every level of your company with an intrapreneurial mindset. As CEO of Mach49, an incubator for large global companies, Linda shares her vast experience and strategies for injecting intrapreneurial thinking and bias-to-action across hundreds of large-scale organizations.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now, |
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| 0:31.2 | I'll see you on the other side. |
| 0:34.4 | The ships, they're very large. |
| 0:36.2 | Some of them are up to almost 1,300 feet long. |
| 0:41.8 | Some of them are tall of, as some buildings downtown in San Francisco. They're that long. |
| 0:47.0 | They're built to go fast in a straight line and so once they get into a harbor they have to slow down and |
| 0:59.3 | that's where the ship assist or the tug assist comes in. |
| 1:06.0 | That's Milton Merit, the president of Amnav Maritime, |
| 1:10.0 | and he's describing some of the massive cargo ships that come in and out of the San Francisco Bay. |
| 1:14.7 | Milton's in the tugboat business, which means it's his job to help these behemoths of the sea |
| 1:20.0 | steer their way into the harbor. |
| 1:21.8 | Tankers are... steer their way into the harbor. |
| 1:28.0 | Tankers are very heavily laden, a lot of cargo. And they're very hard to steer and they're very hard to stop. |
| 1:32.0 | So there could be up to three tugboats, |
| 1:35.0 | assist tugs on those vessels. |
| 1:37.0 | But tugboats aren't just there to help steer the tankers into port. |
| 1:41.0 | They're also critical in assisting when the big ships lose momentum. in a its propulsion, where the tugboats have to respond quickly. |
| 2:01.1 | Where the tugboats have to respond quickly. |
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