The ASU Files – Andrew Grant

In this interview series I have the pleasure of speaking to each of the Aussie speakers USA members and you’ll get to know them from another angle…

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Interview Podcast by Elly Johnson of ASU Team
with Andrew Grant

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Team ASU With Elly Johnson, interviewing Andrew Grant. Aussie Speakers are active in the USA and Australia

Andrew is the king of creative thinking and innovation. So if you're looking to create a culture of innovation for your team or your organization Andrew is your man. He and his partner Dr. Gaia Grant have written two best-selling books and I'll ask him more about that in today's discussion.

They've spent more than 20 years traveling the world and discovering new insights into innovation and then shaping content that makes enormous and immediate impact.

Andrew has a brilliant mind and truly cares about getting his message across to help innovate lead and transform he's globally minded and culturally fluent meaning he's a genius at adapting his content and his wisdom to ensure it's relevant memorable and most importantly actionable.


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Podcast: How to Get Through to a Sceptical Buyer with Andrew Grant

On this podcast we will discuss how to sell innovation and what to do when faced with a skeptical buyer.

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Salesman Podcast
by Andrew Grant

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On this 46 minutes podcast we discuss how to sell innovation and what to do when faced with a skeptical buyer.

What you will learn in this podcast:

  • Why you need to move faster and faster in business just to keep up
  • The importance of having facts and some narrative about the buyer before you reach out

Visit the original podcast page published on "The Salesman Podcast" here >.

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The Starter Pod Ep. 30: Who Killed Creativity with Andrew Grant

Andrew Grant talks about the importance of creating an environment where the creative mind is allowed to thrive.

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“The Starter Pod” Episode 30: Who Killed Creativity with
Andrew Grant

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Andrew Grant spoke on “The Starter Pod” radio casting for business.

Who Killed Creativity, And how do we bring it back? Listen to Andrew Grant international best-selling author talk about the importance of creating an environment where the creative mind is allowed to thrive.

Creative thinking versus critical thinking, learn how both approaches play a vital role in innovation.

Andrew Grant is CEO of Tirian Innovation Solutions, keynote speaker and co-author of the breakthrough book "The Innovation Race: How to change a culture to change the game" along with international bestseller "Who Killed Creativity?… And How Can We Get It Back?".

Listen to the innovation podcast interview in full (35 mins) at The Starter Pod here >

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The Neuroscience of Creativity Keynote Talk Gaia Grant

Gaia Grant speaking to 500 CEOs on the Neuroscience of Creativit

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Keynote Speak: The Neuroscience of Creativity
Gaia Grant

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Gaia Grant speaking to 500 CEOs on the Neuroscience of Creativity.

Gaia Grant- is the MD of Tirian, the co-author of "Who Killed Creativity?... And How Can We Get it Back", and the author of a number of books and resources, including A Patch of Paradise and The Rhythm of Life. Gaia has a BA, Dip Ed, BD (hons), Grad Dip Change Leadership, and MSc in Creative Thinking (International Centre for Studies in Creativity State University of NY). She is now completing an MPhil, leading into a PhD focusing on research into the role of culture change and transformation in innovation at Sydney University, where she is also a guest lecturer on innovation across cultures for the Business School. Gaia is a highly skilled speaker and facilitator carrying with her a wide range of tools that can be used to find solutions to the most difficult challenges.

(Clients include: Google, Visa Card, Salesforce, Baker & McKenzie, Deutsche Bank and many other MNCs)

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The 7 Creative Killer Suspects Keynote Gaia Grant

A crime scene investigation is underway to investigate a death. This is not an average death, this is the death of creative thinking.

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The 7 Creative Killer Suspects
Worktech-13 Melbourne
Gaia Grant

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Keynote talk excerpts Presented at Worktech-13 Melbourne by Gaia Grant, co-author of "Who Killed Creativity? and how can we get it back" (Wiley 2012).

A crime scene investigation is underway to investigate a death. This is not an average death, this is the death of creative thinking. It's time to identify and deal with the creativity killers. Through our surveys of thousands of workshop participants from a range of backgrounds and experiences over more than 20 years, we have narrowed down the list of suspects to 7 key profiles. By recognizing and managing these effectively, we believe it will be possible to revive and nurture creative thinking. Allow us to take a creative approach to interrogating these murder suspects:

Who Killed creativity? What weapons did they use, and where? Was it X.S. Stress in the Executive's Office with 'crushing coercion'? Or was it Beau Rock-Racy in the Accountant's office with 'noxious negativity'. Only when these can be identified in each specific organization, can the appropriate "rescuers" and "strategies" be implemented.

So often money and time is wasted on solutions that eventually make very little or no impact -- the major reason for this is that solutions are generated before the essence of the problem is understood.

In our research we have attempted, in a fun and creative way, to identify the killers and blockers of creativity in the organization and identify the solution processes that will get the desired results. If these creativity killers can be identified upfront then (and they will be different for every company and team), then leaders can start to proactively do something about it, rather than be passive victims.

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Being an Ambidextrous Innovative Leader: Research Findings (Part 3)

A fascinating validated assessment & interactive exercises to help explore your unique iCLi profile

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“Podcast: Being an Ambidextrous Innovative Leader: Research Findings (Part 3)”
Gaia Grant

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Are you an Innovation Leader? Preparing leaders for sustainable innovation, & managing the tension change brings.

How can leaders deal with the complexities and challenges of constant change? This part 3 includes a fascinating validated assessment and interactive exercises to help explore your unique Innovation Change Leadership profile (iCLi). The Grant's latest research reveals how understanding individual, team and organisation ‘Paradoxical Innovation Orientations’ (PIOs) can assist with fuelling innovation. In this session you learn how to manage the dynamic tension between the need for exploration and preservation, to demonstrate how to lead teams so they are propelled forward rather than ripped apart. You are shown how to become an ambidextrous innovation leader. Drawing from our research with thousands of survey responses, multiple interviews with heads of innovation and a deep dive immersion into one organisation over two years – along with fascinating case studies from our consulting work with organisations over 30 years – the session reveals how successful leaders can fuel sustainable development. Academic Version with White Paper also available.

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Navigating the Innovation Race Paradox- for Sustainable Innovation Keynote Pt 2

Andrew Grant presenting “The Innovation Race – Navigating the Paradox”

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Keynote Speak: Navigating the Innovation Race Paradox for Sustainable Innovation
Andrew Grant

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Andrew Grant presenting “The Innovation Race - Navigating the Paradox”. To the Alumni of the Inaugural “Leading Innovation through Design Thinking” Program by SEAC and Stanford Center for Professional Development

Navigating the 4 key Innovation Paradoxes

The paradox theory of innovation is the very latest research on how to build sustainable innovation. For many years there has been an enduring belief that innovation is ignited by being open and taking risks. While this is partially true, Gaia Grant has discovered from her research with the University of Sydney Business School that much more is needed for sustainable innovation.

By identifying the key innovation paradoxes, it is possible to learn how to lead and manage innovation by navigating the process more productively and successfully. Balancing the two sides of a paradox, the interdependent ‘paradoxical pairings’, can create a powerful dynamic that fuels innovation more effectively over the long term. Failing to balance them effectively will inevitably lead to frustration and ineffectiveness. By avoiding the typical swing between one state or the other, the ‘polar positioning’ strategy revels how it is possible to avoid oscillation, compromising and sidelining important innovation factors.

This fast-paced global adventure reveals how different cultures and companies around the world have effectively managed the key Preservation / Exploration innovation paradox, along with the 4 contributing sub-paradoxes. This keynote provides a fascinating insight into strategic innovation for all contemporary organization leaders. And is part of a larger session that can lead into the a workshop / simulation and longer term intervention.

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Are you Innovation Ready? The Paradox Research Keynote Pt2

Ambidextrous innovation leaders will need to know how to recognize and effectively navigate competing demands to stay ahead

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Keynote: Are you Innovation Ready? Pt2
Gaia Grant Hargraves Institute

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Are you Innovation Ready? It has become clear from the research that leaders of the future will be required to develop ambidextrous responses to deal with complexity and rapid change at all levels.

It has become clear from the research that leaders of the future will be required to develop ambidextrous responses to deal with complexity and rapid change at all levels. That is, they will need to know how to recognize and effectively navigate competing demands to stay ahead. Despite the critical importance of managing innovation tensions, this research shows that leaders are often ill-prepared for identifying and dealing with them. Leaders are better resourced to respond to paradoxes once the specific tensions have been identified and addressed. Ambidextrous leadership involves identifying tensions that create polarization, and finding solutions that might help to deal with the tensions simultaneously. The initial finding of the research program was that identifying ambidextrous orientations can provide valuable feedback and help to build a culture for leading innovation.

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Andrew Grant Keynote: CSI The Pressure Pack

Andrew Grant Keynote talk at Worktech / Unwired (Singapore). Who Killed Creativity? The Pressure Pack.

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Keynote Speak: CSI The Pressure Pack
Andrew Grant

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Andrew Grant Keynote talk at Worktech / Unwired (Singapore). Who Killed Creativity? The Pressure Pack. See how stress, multitasking and pressure can block creative thinking

Creative Scene Investigation CSI - Murder Profile 3: The Pressure Pack

Those fitting this profile are driven by unrealistic expectations. With the faster pace of life and greatly increased communication speeds, the 'pressure' profile is apparent in every part of society. This seductive assassin dispatches its victims by exercising a stranglehold on real or perceived expectations. The first sign that the killer is at work is stress, as revealed by a broad range of potentially deadly physical and psychological symptoms. The vicelike grip on its victims often panics and paralyses them, sapping their energy and denying them the time to save themselves through creative strategies, so that they eventually asphyxiate. Associated personality disorders are histrionic, borderline personality and addictive. The preferred weapon is strangling stress.

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Are you Innovation Ready? The Paradox Research Keynote Pt1

Leaders of the future required to develop ambidextrous responses to deal with complexity and rapid change at all levels

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Keynote Speak: Are you Innovation Ready?
Gaia Grant Hargraves Institute

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It has become clear from the research that leaders of the future will be required to develop ambidextrous responses to deal with complexity and rapid change at all levels.

That is, they will need to know how to recognise and effectively navigate competing demands to stay ahead. Despite the critical importance of managing innovation tensions, this research shows that leaders are often ill-prepared for identifying and dealing with them. Leaders are better resourced to respond to paradoxes once the specific tensions have been identified and addressed. Ambidextrous leadership involves identifying tensions that create polarisation, and finding solutions that might help to deal with the tensions simultaneously. The initial finding of the research program was that identifying ambidextrous orientations can provide valuable feedback and help to build a culture for leading innovation.

The accompanying white paper is based on Gaia's research with the Discipline of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Sydney Business School. She has interviewed around 70 Heads of Innovation globally along with conducting year-long immersion case studies, and she has analysed over 1000 survey responses.

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