The CEO’s Role in Fostering Confident Business Innovation – with Robyn Bolton Growth Igniters Radio

One of the themes that keeps coming up in our conversations with top leadership is finding the appropriate balance of confidence that can inspire employees, partners, and others to reach past the status quo and create new value for game-changing innovation and growth. The CEO has a critical role in fostering confident business innovation. Over-confidence can lead to pushback from the people who bring big dreams to life; under-confidence can lead to missing game-changing opportunities.

In this week’s episode, we speak about these issues with Robyn Bolton, the Founder & Chief Navigator at MileZero, a consultancy that helps leaders of $100M + companies use innovation to confidently and repeatedly grow revenue. She previously worked at Innosight, BCG, and Procter & Gamble, where she helped develop and launch the Swiffer product. Robyn holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Marketing from Miami University. Her articles and perspectives have been featured in Fast Company, Harvard Business Review Online, The New York Times, and NPR’s Marketplace.

Appropriately confident innovation is about being ready to live with ambiguity and navigate your way through it step by step. | Robyn Bolton

This week on Growth Igniters® Radio:



* Challenging a common wisdom about innovation

* Robyn’s perspectives about the CEO’s role in fostering “confident business innovation”

* How a CEO led his company to more confidently shape their innovation portfolio

* Immediately useful ideas for leading to foster confident business innovation



Resources for This Episode



* Read more about Robyn Bolton and MileZero and connect with her on LinkedIn

* Take Robyn’s complimentary self-assessment: “How Strong are Your Innovation ABCs?“

* Read Robyn’s blog

* Visit PamHarperSpeaks.com to find out more about her new keynote “Break Orbit: Leading for Long-Term Growth in a Short-Term World”



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