Hitendra Patel

• Learn about how companies are leveraging mega-business-opportunity trends, nuances in basic human needs and winning business models to develop innovation breakthroughs. In addition, find out how you can kickstart innovation in your own organization. This is a popular, entertaining and easy-to-understand presentation with takeaways that could be applied on Monday morning.

Rarely is a manager punished for missing an opportunity but many an innovator has been fired for taking on risk. Most managers are short-term focused, risk-averse, and have a command-control style while innovators need to think long-term, be comfortable with ambiguity, be willing to take risk and leverage other people’s knowledge and competence. To be a great leader, you have to do both – utilize the power of AND. You have to think short-term and long-term, take incremental risk and breakthrough risk, be disciplined and creative – in essence you have to keep your eye on the ball and look around. This is a great talk for getting out of your “sand box” and for leadership development in any company.

The world is connecting. Are you connecting bigger, bolder, and better and also cheaper and faster than your competition? CONNECTIVATE! is based on Hitendra’s latest book incorporating a collection of 50+ compelling stories about companies whose breakthroughs are changing the world. Find out how these companies have found new ways to connect people and businesses to create and capture new value.