If you want to know what are “The Hard Things about Corporate Innovation’’ and how to overcome them, then you have to listen to this episode as I speak to the tech geek, innovator, and writer, Leda Glyptis about just that.

Leda is a recovering banker, a writer for Fintech Futures, an all-weather optimist, and the Chief Client Officer at 10x Future Technologies. Prior to joining 10x, she led several innovation teams within a corporate setup and also worked in the fintech world; the latest of which was as the founding CEO at 11:FS.

In this episode, we speak about,

• What distinguishes start-ups from corporate innovation?
• Balancing the need to innovate vs. the need to sustain the existing business?
• The secret sauce to moving faster from ideation to execution.
• Why shouldn’t we equate innovation with failure?
• Why it’s more compelling to ask Why instead of Why Not when working on a new project?
• Overcoming the Middle Management Swamp.

Links to Leda’s articles discussed in this episode:

• Unfinishedness by Degrees
• Friends in Low Places