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INTRAPRENEURIALISM. An Unstoppable Movement.
On Thursday (14th of March 2019) was the inaugural Australian Intrapreneurs Summit at the Brisbane Convention Centre.IT WAS SOLD OUT!!!The room was absolutely packed to capacity. So wonderful to see the movement of intrapreneurialism gaining traction in...
read moreThe Australian Intrapreneurs Summit
Most people who are connected with me are aware that I am hosting the inaugural Australian Intrapreneurs Summit at the Brisbane Convention Centre on the 14th of March 2019. As someone in my network you are invited you to attend this historic event and join...
read moreWhat kind of innovator are you?
Happy New Year! I hope 2019 is a great year for you. In my last post before Christmas I asked the question – ‘what will you create in 2019?’ This article is about HOW you create depending on what kind of innovator you are. People contribute to innovation...
read moreBeautiful Chaos.
I’ve recently returned from a trade mission to India visiting Jaipur, Agra and Delhi. While in Jaipur I had a meeting with the head of a design institute. It was a delight to talk about how the institute was helping students harness and evolve their...
read moreAvoiding risk is the riskiest course of action.
Fear of risk is one of the greatest barriers to innovation and intrapreneurialism. Risk is a term that strikes fear in the hearts of many leaders – especially those who consider themselves to work in severely risk-averse contexts. However, taking a risk is...
read moreDo you have a Growth Mindset?
In her bestselling book, Mindset[1], Stanford University professor Carol Dweck suggests that people fall loosely into two categories – and these two categories are very starkly contrasted when it comes to learning, failure and self-efficacy. The two...
read moreRate of change overwhelming? Get used to it. It’s the new normal.
Last month I attended and spoke at the Emerging Innovation Summit hosted by RMIT in Melbourne. The opening keynote speaker was Langdon Morris co-founder of InnovationLabs and President of FutureLab in the US. I was fortunate enough to acquire a pre-release...
read moreCollaboration Is More Than a Conversation
I spent some time at Atlassian Headquarters in Sydney last week learning about what has made this Aussie tech firm one of the most successful software companies in the world. How did they build a culture that enables them to punch so far above their...
read moreLeadership 4.0 for the Innovation Age
The innovation age requires leaders to think differently about how they bring out the best in themselves and their people. The leader of the future is the leader who asks rather than tells, who mentors rather than directs, who requests rather demands, and...
read moreIs your leadership training up to date?
I read an article in The Australian recently that reported on the fact that leadership training in Australia has fallen behind the times. Not only that – but when it is done it is usually only targeted to people who are already in senior leadership...
read moreWhat happens when the disruptors are disrupted?
Over the last 20 years we’ve seen many household name brands become obsolete or lose market share as a result of new players in the industry. In the common business vernacular they’ve been ‘disrupted’. One of the most commonly cited examples is Uber’s disruption of...
read moreThe Secret to a Long Life
Meet Siomara Valdes, an octogenarian who can still totally rock a packed house. I met her when we went to see the show The Bar at Bueno Vista at the QPAC Playhouse last weekend and was completely blown away by this legend of Cuban music. She mesmerised us...
read morePodcasts
Entrapreneurs are problem solvers who are being recognized as the driving force behind innovation in organizations. Dr. Irena Yashin-Shaw is leading the charge in this new way of working. In this episode, she shares how to be an intrapreneur and how to create a culture that fosters creativity and intrapreneurialism.
On this episode, you’ll hear how Dr Irena Yashin-Shaw transitioned from a high school teacher to become Australia’s leading expert on creativity and innovation. Listen in when she discusses the strategies she uses to facilitate knowledge retention and behaviour change in the workshops.
On this episode, Dr Irena Yashin-Shaw discusses, in BizTalk with Emmanuel, Intrapreneurship. That it’s not new, and is fundamental to the success of any organisation in the world, yet still very little attention has been placed on it.