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Confessions of a Corporate Insurgent with Gib Bulloch

Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 11 a.m.

In this episode, writer, speaker, and intrapreneur, Gib Bulloch, joins us to discuss his book, The Intrapreneur: Confessions of a Corporate Insurgent. He spent 20 years at Accenture where he started Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP), a buinsess unit set up to leverage that business\u2019s expertise and experience in service of global development organizations.Gib now works as a consultant specializing in intrapreneurship, social enterprise, and cross-sectoral partnerships. He is also a noted public speaker and has contributed to The Huffington Post, Businessweek, and The Stanford Social Innovation Review.

What Is Covered

  • Why CEOs and leaders need to make changes in organisational processes and to cultural norms to reflect the changing needs of the workforce of tomorrow
  • How best practices from the world\u2019s most admired companies can be used to deliver impact via the work of global development organizations
  • Why if people \u201cwant to think out of the box" they need to get out of the box to apply their skills; a different context as a way of seeing things they would not otherwise see in their normal daily routines
Key Takeaways and Learnings
  • How organisational cultures, norms, and middle management (the \u201ccorporate immune system\u201d) conspire invisibly to stop innovation in its tracks
  • The power of bottom-up change; Gib\u2019s call to action for millennials to push for change within their organizations both individually and collectively
  • The possibilities of \u201cnot for loss\u201d business models that are cost neutral to shareholders and have measurable business benefits
Links and Resources Mentioned in this Episode