Ted Ladd, Dean and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Hult International Business School, and a recognised top learning and HR influencer for leadership development. In this episode, we explore how innovation creates value for anybody, including how we can innovate with respect, affirmation, and confidence, tapping into the minds of platform natives and drawing inspirations from past innovations.
More about our guest:
Ted Ladd teaches innovation at Harvard University and has participated in six different start-ups in Silicon Valley, the most recent acquired by Google. You can learn more about him on his LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedladd/
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:56 - What is Innovation?
2:43 - Personal and professional background
3:43 - Book: innovating with impact
6:33 - Respect, Affirmation, and Confidence
8:11 - Affirmation in Innovation
10:48 - 2-step formula
12:35 - Platform natives
13:38 - Palm Pilot, Google, and IPO
15:47 - The mobile internet
17:52 - Innovation impact on an internal basis
20:12 - Innovative ideas from university studies
21:24 - Process-driven innovation
23:52 - Empowering and the effectivity of idea-generation
26:43 - What isn't innovation?
28:16 - Radical innovations
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