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/
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