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Sense & Signal Podcast: Leading Through Sensemaking

Director of Innovation and Collaboration at TIBCO.

In this episode Jodah and Dan engage in a wide spanning discussion with Brad Topliff about what it means to innovate, what leading innovation looks like, how to create a culture of innovation, and how workplace empathy is the secret source to innovation. They also discuss the mysterious concepts of hopium, careijuana, and workquilibrium.

TIMESTAMPS

3:29 – What is a Director of Innovation and Collaboration?

5:14 – What is Innovation to Brad?

8:32 – Innovation and Natural Constraints

13:58 – Brad’s Journey to His Current Position

19:15 – Starting an Innovation Department

20:01 – Process for Stimulating Innovation in an Organization

24:40 – Silicon Valley Kool-Aid and Hopium

27:06 – Awkward Pause

29:40 – Innovation & Ethics

31:01 – Silicon Valley is Like a Casino in Vegas

32:40 – Everything is a Product

33:46 – What Do Toxic Leaders in Silicon Valley Look Like?

35:19 – Workquilibrium

42:57 – Higher Ed and Hopoum

46:39 – Relationship To Work Changing Over Time

50:28 – Empathy is the Secret Sauce

52:03 – Dark Empathy

1:03:07 – Wrap-Up

MORE ABOUT BRAD TOPLIFF

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradtopliff/

MORE ABOUT JODAH JENSEN

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodah/

MORE ABOUT DAN TARKER

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantarker/

https://www.danieltarker.com

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