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Podcast: Product Mastery Now for Product Managers, Leaders, and Innovators
Episode: 518: The non-obvious way to gain organization support for your ideas – with Doug Hall
Description:
Why product managers need to stop the stupid
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TLDR
Innovation expert Doug Hall reveals why most organizations struggle with innovation despite recognizing its importance. Through his experience running Eureka! Ranch and Dexter Bourbon Distillery, Hall discovered that successful innovation requires a bottom-up transformation focusing first on empowering frontline employees to fix inefficiencies (“stop the stupid”), then enabling middle managers to improve systems, and finally allowing leadership to pursue bigger strategic innovations. This three-level approach has shown to increase innovation value by 28% versus the typical 50% decl...