In this episode, writer, speaker, and intrapreneur, Gib Bulloch, joins us to discuss his book, The Intrapreneur: Confessions of a Corporate Insurgent. He spent 20 years at Accenture where he started Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP), a buinsess unit set up to leverage that business's expertise and experience in service of global development organizations.Gib now works as a consultant specializing in intrapreneurship, social enterprise, and cross-sectoral partnerships. He is also a noted public speaker and has contributed to The Huffington Post, Businessweek, and The Stanford Social Innovation Review.
What Is Covered
- Why CEOs and leaders need to make changes in organisational processes and to cultural norms to reflect the changing needs of the workforce of tomorrow
- How best practices from the world's most admired companies can be used to deliver impact via the work of global development organizations
- Why if people "want to think out of the box" they need to get out of the box to apply their skills; a different context as a way of seeing things they would not otherwise see in their normal daily routines
Key Takeaways and Learnings
- How organisational cultures, norms, and middle management (the "corporate immune system") conspire invisibly to stop innovation in its tracks
- The power of bottom-up change; Gib's call to action for millennials to push for change within their organizations both individually and collectively
- The possibilities of "not for loss" business models that are cost neutral to shareholders and have measurable business benefits
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