Inside LaunchStreet Podcast

  ‘Innovative solutions’ is a phrase that gets used a lot. But what exactly does that mean, and what does it take to stay ahead of the curve and not fall behind? How can you gauge a client’s appetite for innovation and disruption, and implement it in a way that allows for learning from failure?...

Find opportunity in patterns and major shifts. Technology is changing and moving extremely rapidly, particularly in the cybersecurity space, so how can you stay ahead of the curve? How do you find the opportunities in the gaps in constantly evolving industry, and create a business in these niches? Kristina Bergman, an expert in cybersecurity, has...

Empower your team to lead through intent-based leadership. How do you create a high-performing team where people are leaning into you as the leader, rather than you leaning into them? As a leader, what can you do to ensure you are creating an environment where your team thrives? There’s no better person to tap for...

Startup, scaleup, screwup In this episode, we’re diving into the three critical phases of innovation — startup, scaleup, and screwup. That’s not a mistake — repeat guest on the podcast, Jurgen Appelo, has authored his second book with just that title and he explains just what that means.   In the ‘startup’ phase, companies are...

Don't start with the product, start with the outcome. As a business, how do you figure out what your customers need, and how do you apply that customer-centric viewpoint to your internal processes so that it's infused into everything that you do? Jeff Gothelf joins me to dive into why it’s so important for us...

Brands as an active challenger of culture. In recent years, there has been a massive shift in the business world from brands and businesses being a passive stage for culture, to one where they are active challengers of culture. The role of business in people's personal lives is very different than it was — the...

Insights to apply to your own business. Today’s guest is not my usual kind of guest, but I have always believed in going wide and going deep in innovation. Looking outside our own backyard is sometimes necessary to avoid becoming too myopic in our outlook, which is why I have Marco Santarelli, real estate innovator,...

What does it take to create a successful culture? What is your company’s culture? If you can’t define your company culture, how do you know if it even exists, or if it’s working or not? The truth is, every company has a culture — it just may not be the one that you want. So...

How to break through the noise with emotion. Why do some things go viral and others don’t? Why do some ideas seem to spread like wildfire, and others fall flat? How do you create communication in ideas that are downright contagious? Tim Staples believes it’s less about the process and more about the emotion.  ...

What gets you from A to B, won’t get you from B to C. Why is it just as important to unlearn and relearn, as it is to learn something in the first place? Because what got you from point A to point B, isn’t going to get you from point B to point C....