447: What Innovators Do Differently with Hal Gregersen

Hal Gregersen reveals the key skills of disruptive innovators–and how you can get them too.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) The core five skills required for innovation.

2) The questions disruptive innovators ask.

3) How to network for new idea.

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— ABOUT HAL —

Hal Gregersen is the Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research by exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and deliver positive, powerful results.

• Hal’s Book: “The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators” with Jeff Dyer and Clayton Christensen

• Hal’s other book: “Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems At Work and in Life” with Ed Catmull

• Hal’s website: www.HalGregersen.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Companies mentioned: Aramex, Azul Brazilian Airlines, Intuit, JetBlue, Magnolia Market at the Silos, Moxy, PIXAR, Xero

• Event: SXSW Conference & Festivals

• Innovators mentioned: Chip and Joanna Gaines, Clayton M. Christensen, David Neeleman, Diane Greene, E. B. White, Fadi Ghandour, Jeff Bezos, Jeff Dyer, June Morris, Marc Benioff, Niklas Zennstrom, Peter Thiel, Rod Drury, Scott Cook

• Product: Kutol Wall Cleaner

• Software: Chatter, QuickBooks, Quicken

• Term: Combinatorial play

• Book: “The Magnolia Story” by Chip and Joanna Gaines, and Mark Dagostino

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