Mary Ann Jentz, founder of MAJ Consulting, a company aiming to help organizations define and execute strategic goals with a culture-first approach shares how morality and intentionality work (and don't work) in the areas of innovation.
More about our guest:
Mary Ann has over 15 years of experience, 10 years as a consultant, and prior to founding MAJ Consulting, she worked at Deloitte as a strategy and operations consultant and in supply chain at General Electric. She has an MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University and two bachelors' degrees in Chemical Engineering and Psychology from the University of Notre Dame. She lives in West Chester, Ohio with her husband, Mike, and shih tzu mix, Lulu.
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
1:21 - What is Innovation?
3:57 - What is so special about being intentional
6:57 - Day-to-day ratio: Intentionality and bias toward action
8:24 - Experience and communication down the pipeline
10:13 - Classical strategic planning process: 100-Zero
12:05 - Connectivity and alignment of thought
14:16 - Essence of the business MAJ Consulting
16:45 - Striking the balance mentally
19:33 - Ways to think and rethink intentionality
21:08 - What isn't innovation?
22:17 - Morality: discussion on gene splicing
23:53 - Assumption of morality in social media
26:30 - Detangling from societal structure
28:27 - Web 3 and blockchain vs Web 2 platforms
30:25 - Uber vs Taxis
32:08 - Advice for innovators
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