Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

Evangelos Simoudis is currently working with Steve Blank on a model for corporate innovation. Evangelos has been working in Silicon Valley as a technologist, entrepreneur, corporate executive, and VC. Today he advises global corporations on startup-driven innovation and information technology and invests in early stage startups working on big data applications. He is a recognized thought leader on corporate innovation, big data, cloud computing, and digital marketing platforms, a writer and speaker on these topics. In 2014, Evangelos was named a Power Player in Digital Media, and in 2012 as a top investor in online advertising. Evangelos is a foudner and MD at Synapse Partners, an organisation connecting Fortune 500 companies with technologies, practices and startups that are shaping our future. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners where he as a GP, continued at Trident Capital as a senior managing director, and more recently at Corporate Innovation Ventures where he is a founder and managing director. His current directorships include Amobee/Singtel, and Kite. Prior directorships include Brightroll (acquired by Yahoo!), Bristol Technology (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Composite Software (acquired by Cisco), Confluent Software (acquired by Oracle Corporation), Exelate (acquired by Nielsen) and Princeton Softech (acquired by IBM). Prior to his investing and advisory career, Evangelos had a 20-year career in high-technology executive roles, including two startup CEO positions. In this episode we dive into some of Evangelos' thought leadership on topics pertaining to: - corporate VC - corporate accelerators and incubators - acquisition of startups We experienced some minor technical issues during this interview. However, despite this, I cannot recommend listening to this highly enough if you have an interest in corporate innovation, which, if you're reading this, is probably quite likely! --- I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just leave your details at www.futuresquared.xyz/subscribe and you’ll receive the very next one. Listen on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk hacking the corporate culture to support innovation, a topic inspired by my recent interview with Silicon Valley godfather Steve Blank. I cover both intrinsic and external motivators and levers that can be pulled to start hacking the culture. For more on this topic visit: www.collectivecamp.us/blog Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs. Download it at www.theinnovationmanagershandbook.com Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by liking, subscribing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us businessinnovationstartupsentrepreneurshipdisruptiontechnologyleanstartupincubatorsacceleratorshackathons GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Garrett Dunham is an entrepreneur, speaker and startup advisor. He’s founded 2 accelerators, including Prebacked, a reverse hackathon connecting corporates with startups, and Singulairty University Labs - his work has been featured in the New York Times, the NBC, Fast Company, Forbes, Tech Crunch and Venture Beat. A Silicon Valley native, Garrett loves to teach about entrepreneurialism. In this podcast we talked about all manner of things, including: - Corporate startup partnerships - Some key challenges to overcome when you pair a large enterprise with a startup - What to think about before, during and after a corporate startup partnership is established - Case studies of success - Premortems of failure - Whether to acquire, invest, partner, incubate or invent - Why speed is fundamental to success - How to increase your productivity by 400% Show notes: GarrettDunham.com Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs. Download it at www.theinnovationmanagershandbook.com Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by liking, subscribing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode #17, I confront an issue that seems all too common amongst large organisations trying to deal with this thing called disruption. Far too often, the response is isolated initiatives or projects, with defined start and end dates, that don't have clearly defined objectives, aren't embedded into the broader organisational BUs, don't tie in with performance metrics, make little funding or resources available to explore ideas beyond an initiative and ultimately amount to nothing more than theatre with no tangible long-term value. I talk what organisations are doing wrong and what they need to be thinking about if they are serious about innovation and keeping disruption at bay. Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs. Download it at www.theinnovationmanagershandbook.com Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to our very first Fast Fix Friday, a short 5 minute or less morsel of knowledge to inspire and inject some fresh thinking into your day and get you ready for the weekend as you reflect on the week that was! In this episode, I look at Pixar's brain trust - a mechanism the company uses to do away with sugarcoating and the human tendencies to not say what we really think - which ultimately stands in the way of creativity and innovation. Give this podcast a listen! Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy Show Notes: - Creativity Inc, Ed Catmull (book) If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @steveglaveski We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs. Download it at www.theinnovationmanagershandbook.com Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Flow has been defined as a mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus. The term was first coined by Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975 and is often referred to as as ‘the zone’, however few people truly appreciate that ‘the zone’ is actually a physiological state. Why did I choose to write about a topic that may at first glance seem to have more to do with psychology and physiological science than business innovation? The answer is simple. A 10-year McKinsey and Co. study on flow and productivity found top executives 500% more productive when in flow. Interested in finding out more? Give this podcast a listen! Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy ‍ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Braden Kelley is an experienced innovation and change speaker, trainer, and digital transformation strategist. He specializes in building cultures of continuous and accelerating innovation and change. He is the author of "Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire" and "Charting Change", and has been advising companies on how to increase their revenue and cut their costs since 1996. Braden writes frequently on the topic of continuous innovation and works with clients to create innovative strategies, organizational change, digital transformation, and improved organizational performance. Braden is passionate about innovation and has published more than 650 articles for online publications. In his spare time, Braden is a co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of the popular global innovation community –InnovationExcellence.com – home to 7,500+ innovation articles and is an innovation leader on Twitter (@innovate) with 18,500+ hard-earned followers. He was previously Improvement and Innovation Manager at Premera Blue Cross, Change and Marketing Strategist at Business Strategy Innovation and is currently an Innovation and Change Strategy Consultant with Liberty Mutual Insurance.   Topics Discussed: - How we can reduce the 70% change program failure rate - How to build a culture that supports lean startup - Braden's Change Planning Toolkit - How to tackle resistance to change - Agile change - How to change the culture to support innovation without compromising the core business     --- I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just leave your details at www.futuresquared.xyz/subscribe and you’ll receive the very next one. Listen on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Whitney Johnson was recognized as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers in 2015, and was a finalist for the Top thinkers on Talent at the biennial Thinkers50 ceremony in London. She is best known for her work on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption. She is formerly the co-founder of Rose Park Advisors alongside Clayton Christensen, world renowned author of The Innovator's Dilemma and innovation thought leader, where they invested in and led the $8 million seed round for Korea’s Coupang, currently valued at $5+ billion. Johnson is also a frequent contributor to and writer for the Harvard Business Review, and is a Linkedinfluencer. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Disrupt Yourself (2015) and Dare, Dream Do (2012). She has received widespread recognition for her thinking and was named one of Fortune’s 55 Most Influential Women on Twitter in 2014. She co-founded the popular Forty Women Over Forty to Watch and is a fellow at the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards.   Topics Discussed: - Her book, Disrupt Yourself - Why we must disrupt ourselves with the future of our jobs being more uncertain than ever - How the concept of disrupting yourself aligns with Clayton Christensen's concept of disruptive innovation - How our very own KPIs and short term targets are often used as an excuse to prevent us doing what we love and chasing our  passions, and ultimately lead us to being disrupted - How can you disrupt yourself without compromising the way you make money today - how disrupting yourself SHOULD feel lonely - How the well worn path promises a limited reward - How disrupting yourself leads to 20X revenue potential - How disrupting yourself is initially supposed to be a slow process riddled with "am I doing the right thing?" questions - Both Whitney's and my stories of personal disruption - The concept of 'disruptive strengths'   Show Notes: Get Whitney's books on Amazon: Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work - https://amzn.to/2I7hTbT Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream - https://amzn.to/2I5QOWt Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve - https://amzn.to/2xvpDQU   --- I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just leave your details at www.futuresquared.xyz/subscribe and you’ll receive the very next one. Listen on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steve Blank is considered by many to be the godfather of Silicon Valley and is credited with spearheading the customer development model which birthed the lean startup, popularised by his former pupil Eric Ries' book of the same name. He is one of the most prominent and widely respected thought leaders in the world on innovation and entrepreneurship. Over the last 35 years, Steve has been part of, or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups. These have run the gamut from semiconductors, video games, personal computers, and supercomputers. (MIPS, Zilog, Rocket Science, SuperMac, Convergent Technologies, Ardent, ESL) Steve's last company was E.piphany, an enterprise software company. Steve currently teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley-Haas Business School, Columbia University, NYU, Stanford University Engineering School and UCSF. In 2009 he was awarded the Stanford University Undergraduate Teaching Award in the department of Management Science and Engineering. In 2011 the National Science Foundation adopted his Lean Launchpad class as the U.S. standard for commercializing basic and applied research via the Innovation Corps.   Topics Discussed: - the corporate innovation outpost - the evolution of corporate R&D - getting to "yes" for corporate innovation - why entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs are not the same - why horizon 1 systems don't support horizon 3 innovation - why horizon 3 or disruptive innovation requires a little bit of crazy - innovation in the public sector - how important it is to get the culture right - acquisitions and innovation - if he could work for any company in the world at any stage of their lifecycle, which would it be and why   There were definitely some nerves in the lead up to this interview given that Steve is somebody who I have the upmost admiration for in the space of innovation and entrepreneurship and some of those nerves might have shone through during moments in this podcast so feel free to have a laugh at my expense! :)     Show Notes: - SteveBlank.com - Four Steps to the Epiphany (book): https://amzn.to/2zoUH6e - The Startup Owner's Manual (book): https://amzn.to/2MSAfOt - Twitter: @sgblank --- I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just leave your details at www.futuresquared.xyz/subscribe and you’ll receive the very next one. Listen on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode I had the pleasure of chatting with native New York native and one of the most influential CMOs in the world, Ted Rubin. Ted is a leading Social Marketing Strategist, Keynote Speaker and Brand Evangelist and evangelized the term ROR: Return on Relationship™, a concept he believes is the cornerstone for building an engaged multi-million member database, many of whom are vocal advocates for the brand. Many people in the social media world know Ted for his enthusiastic, energetic and undeniably personal connection to people. Ted is the most followed CMO on Twitter according to Social Media Marketing Magazine; one of the most interesting CMOs on Twitter according to Say Media, #13 on Forbes Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers, and number #2 on the Leadtail list of Top 25 People Most Mentioned by digital marketers. ROR is the basis of his philosophy…It’s All About Relationships! His book, Return on Relationship, was released in 2013, and How To Look People in the Eye Digitally in 2015. Ted has a deep online background beginning in 1997 working with best selling author, entrepreneur and agent of change Seth Godin at Yoyodyne, which was acquired in 1998 by Yahoo! His personal motto is Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain. We discussed a number of topics, including: - Customer Experience in 2016 - Return on Relationship - Looking People in the Eye Digitally - The Age of Influence, how ANYBODY can become influential without leaving their house - Balancing pressure to cut costs, automate and offshore with increasing customer service expectations - How Social Media is NOT about screaming marketing messages from from the tree-tops - Tools to help you build and nurture ROR - Empowering Your Employees to Increase ROR - We also talked about some of our favourite books and philosophised a little on life towards the end of the show   Show Notes: - For find out a little bit more about Ted, download some thought leadership of his or to pick up a copy of his books head to tedrubin.com and returnonrelationship.com. - Search for 'Twitter Basics' at TedRubin.com to find out some of the tools that Ted Rubin and his team uses to build ROR - To download 'The 12 Most Important Ways to Build a Return on Relationship' head to RORPro.com - RocketReach.com (find anyone's email address)   --- I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you’d like to receive a weekly email from me, complete with reflections, books I’ve been reading, words of wisdom and access to blogs, ebooks and more that I’m publishing on a regular basis, just leave your details at www.futuresquared.xyz/subscribe and you’ll receive the very next one. Listen on Apple Podcasts @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.