The Hard Things About Corporate Innovation, with Leda Glyptis, writer at FinTech Futures

If you want to know what are “The Hard Things about Corporate Innovation’’ and how to overcome them, then you have to listen to this episode as I speak to the tech geek, innovator, and writer, Leda Glyptis about just that.

Leda is a recovering banker, a writer for Fintech Futures, an all-weather optimist, and the Chief Client Officer at 10x Future Technologies. Prior to joining 10x, she led several innovation teams within a corporate setup and also worked in the fintech world; the latest of which was as the founding CEO at 11:FS. 

In this episode, we speak about,

• What distinguishes start-ups from corporate innovation?
• Balancing the need to innovate vs. the need to sustain the existing business?
• The secret sauce to moving faster from ideation to execution.
• Why shouldn’t we equate innovation with failure?
•  Why it’s more compelling to ask Why instead of Why Not when working on a new project?
• Overcoming the Middle Management Swamp.

Links to Leda’s articles discussed in this episode:

• Unfinishedness by Degrees
• Friends in Low Places