XL Podcast

Produced by Pikkal & Co - Award-Winning Podcast Agency.

Leaders set the tone. The tone becomes the culture. The culture becomes the DNA of innovation.

Our guest in this episode, Howard Yu, is the LEGO Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD Business School and author of LEAP. In this conversation, we share how businesses change and keep changing in order to stay relevant in the 21st Century. It's not about strategy, but about the culture and leadership of the organization - everything from the stories the leaders tell to the teams they build.

We look at what it takes to build organisations that innovate not just for the next year, but for the next generation. The case studies Howard shares in this conversation will surprise you. Of course we all know about Apple, but who would have thought one of the most innovative companies of our time was John Deere - the agricultural machinery manufacturer. That goes to show how innovations defies category and, as we'll also learn, geography. We'll look at innovation in Asia and the Asian Century and the shift from West to East.

Show Notes

Produced by  Pikkal & Co - Award-Winning Podcast Agency. Leaders set the tone. The tone becomes the culture. The culture becomes the DNA of innovation. Our guest in this episode, Howard Yu, is the LEGO Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD Business School and author of LEAP. In this conversation, we share how businesses change and keep changing in order to stay relevant in the 21st Century. It's not about strategy, but about the culture and leadership of the organization - everything from the stories the leaders tell to the teams they build. We look at what it takes to build organisations that innovate not just for the next year, but for the next generation. The case studies Howard shares in this conversation will surprise you. Of course we all know about Apple, but who would have thought one of the most innovative companies of our time was John Deere - the agricultural machinery manufacturer. That goes to show how innovations defies category and, as we'll also learn, geography. We'll look at innovation in Asia and the Asian Century and the shift from West to East.

What is XL Podcast?

Produced by Pikkal & Co - Award-Winning Podcast Agency.

The XL Podcast by Graham Brown showcases conversations with Authentic Leaders in business and society. By creating conversations not interviews, XL highlights Leaders in their own words, without PR spin or handlers. XL brings regular hard-hitting insights and transformative journeys outside the comfort zone of regular business.

Previous XL guests include Tony Fernandes (CEO AirAsia), Howard Yu (Author & Professor of IMD), Rod Drury (CEO Founder Xero), Hal Bosher (CEO Yoma Bank), Jiawen Ngeow (Successful entrepreneur with $25m exits), Mun Ching Yap (Head of The Air Asia Foundation), Sahar Hashemi (Founder of Costa Coffee and named in The Independent on Sunday as one of The "20 most powerful women in Britain”), Lewis Pugh ("The Human Polar Bear”, UN Patron of The Oceans and World Record holding Swimmer) and Rob Nail (CEO of Singularity University)