Lead From The Future
Mark Johnson is co-founder and Senior Partner of Innosight, a strategic innovation consulting and investing company with offices in Massachusetts, Singapore and Switzerland, which he co-founded with Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. He has been a strategic advisor to both Global 1000 and start-up companies in a wide range of industries—including automotive, health care, aerospace/defense, enterprise IT, energy, and consumer packaged goods. He is the coauthor of Lead from the Future: How to Turn Visionary Thinking into Breakthrough Growth, a manifesto for “Future Back” thinking and a hands-on guide to long-term planning, strategy development, and execution within established organizations.
In this episode, we cover:
Lead From The Future
- 2:15 – Points of inflection
- 3:32 – COVID-19 innovations
- 6:26 – The Bubonic plague and the Renaissance
- 7:02 – Cholera epidemic and golden age of Vienna
- 8:31 – The space race
- 10:22 – Future Back
- 10:54 – Questions as answers
- 13:03 – Invert Always Invert – Charlie Munger
- 13:29 – Taking an impressionists view
- 14:42 – Future state portfolio
- 15:29 – Walking it back with initiatives
- 16:14 – Vision to strategy
- 16:41 – Going beyond the core
- 17:49 – Building your innovation team
- 18:23 – Lead startup methodology
- 18:38 – Aligning leadership with innovation teams
- 20:20 – Strategic continuity
- 22:25 – The role of the board of directors in innovation
- 25:55 – Generative design
- 26:31 – AI in innovation
- 31:12 – Wayne Grestsky – skate to where the puck is going
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- innosight.com
- amazon.co.uk/Lead-Future-Visionary-Thinking-Breakthrough-ebook/dp/B07V3T98WS
- Book: Full Spectrum Thinking by Bob Johansen, Seeing Around Corners by Rita McGrath
- Album: Boston by Boston
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