how to become an innovation leader

LEAN LEADERSHIP

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Bennett BlankInnovation Leader, Intuit

About MeI’m a recovering product manager, and early adopter of Lean Startup at Intuit.

It’s no fun doing it alone, so I taught hundreds of employees how to do it too.

• Gives us safety to take bigger risks• Makes the first step easy• We judge the process instead of ourselves

Why I LoveLean Startup

Lean LeadershipHow to scale from individual ability to organizational capability.

MEto

WE

• Convince, then create• Command from above• Flawless intellect• Success vs. failure• Prove I’m right• Get stabbed (no fun)

• Create, then convince• Inspire from below• Enlightened trial & error• Discover the truth • Admit I’m wrong• Not stabbed!

CAESAR vs. SCIENTIST

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

Scalable, Repeatable, You…(learn Judo)

GO WHERE YOU’RE LOVEDStart small and seek out like-minded people.Solve other peoples’ problems, and you will gain allies wherever you go.

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Early AdoptersGreat innovators can come from anywhere

GIVE IT AWAYLet others make it their own, no strings attached.Leverage existing culture. Draft off existing words, concepts and programs you already have in place.

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“100 Startups in 100 Days”$30M Impact in 18 months

TEACH & INSPIREShow, don’t tell. You can’t expect others to join if you don’t show them how.

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Teachers Need StudentsPeople will use what they know.

Students Become TeachersHundreds of people become the next expert

USE YOUR CULTUREPosition Lean Startup as an evolution to what youalready do...Your organization already has an entrepreneurial culture, steal it!

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ExistingFrameworks

Innovation Days = Lean StartupUse their words, not your own.

YOU ARE THE PRODUCTApply Lean Startup to YOU.

How might you inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more?

Thank you

Send me your thoughts @BlankBen

Bennett BlankInnovation Leader, Intuit