Being An Everyday Superhero with Tony O’Driscoll and Gary Zamchick

“Meet a stressed young manager, Mae B, whose teams are being led by an authoritarian CEO. We join her on her mission to overhaul the outdated leadership systems obsessed by power, profit and process and fight for central leadership that prioritises people, purpose and principles.”

Talking to Evolving Leader hosts Scott and Jean, Tony O’Driscoll (professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and a Research Fellow at Duke Corporate Education) and Gary Zamchick (illustrator, innovation strategy consultant and co-founder of start-up Words-Eye) explain their novel approach to writing ‘Everyday Superhero – How You Can Inspire Everyone And Create Real Change At Work’, a book that one reviewer refers to as ‘an entertaining tale with a serious message’. 

‘Everyday Superhero – How You Can Inspire Everyone And Create Real Change At Work’ (Penguin Business, 2022)

0.00 Introduction

2.46 What’s the single most purpose driven aspect of your work? 

4.42 Why did you decide to move away from writing a traditional business book?

8.28 Give us your pitch for the book.

11.23 What was it for you personally that led you realise that ‘the human piece is really missing’?

14.14 If businesses move to competing based on imagination, what’s the environment that would give them a competitive edge?

16.28 Talk us through the story behind the book.  

22.34 How did you meet?

26.00 How does your creative partnership work?

29.41 Can we focus a little deeper on the issue of change? 

35.41 Who is getting this right? Where are you seeing evidence of the kind of change that you’re talking about?

39.27 As markets and communities are coming together to drive change (as opposed to organisations), how does that influence your thinking? 

45.06 In your book, the character Mae B is trapped in a bureaucratic system and is the person we all end up wanting to associate with. Tell us a little about this character.

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