Eat, Sleep, and Innovate with Scott Anthony

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Scott Anthony is a multidisciplinary expert who is passionate about helping individuals and organizations develop the capacity to thrive in today’s world of never-ending change. He has worked at Innosight, a growth strategy consultancy cofounded by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen, since 2003. As a senior partner there, he has advised leadership teams at top global companies on growth and innovation challenges. Anthony has given keynote addresses on six continents and is Harvard Business Corporate Learning’s most in-demand external subject matter expert. Anthony has been based in Singapore since 2010, where he served as a member of the Committee on the Future Economy and a board member of MediaCorp and NTUC LearningHub. Anthony has written eight books, including most recently Eat, Sleep, Innovate (2020) and Dual Transformation (2017), which describe how forward-thinking organizations can navigate disruptive change and own the future. In 2021, Thinkers50 named Anthony the world’s seventh most influential management thinker; Anthony has been nominated for the group’s innovation award three times and won the award in 2017.

Topics for discussion:

· What Scott learned from Clayton Christensen: the basics of disruptive innovation, how to shape and develop ideas, and why the innovator’s dilemma has proven to be so persistent

· The challenges of leading through disruptive change

· A culture of innovation: what it is, how do you build it, what makes it hard, and how to encourage it?

· The definition of innovation in the workplace

· Great innovators take an idea from one place and bring it to another. if you wander, your brain starts to see dots you can connect.

· The role of failure in innovation and how successful companies have rituals around accepting failure

· A tool called BEAN (behavior enabler, artifact and nudge) – what is it and how does it encourage innovation

· The importance of using stories to change CEO’s minds instead of facts and figures

Social media:

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