Driving Innovation Through Strategic Leadership

About this episode

This episode discusses the role of strategic leadership in driving innovation, featuring insights from John Rossman, a former Amazon executive.

What do billion-dollar innovation, a global marketplace, and bold leadership have in common? They were all driven by one thing: strategic leadership. In this episode of Bring Out the Talent, we’re joined by John Rossman, former Amazon executive and author of Big Bet Leadership: Your Transformation Playbook for Winning in the Hyper-Digital Era. John led the launch of Amazon Marketplace, now responsible for over half of Amazon’s global sales, and has since guided high-impact transformatio...

People in this episode

Hosts: Maria Melfa, Jocelyn Allen

Guest: John Rossman

Topics covered

• innovation
• strategic leadership
• business transformation
• global marketplace
• digital era

Keywords

• innovation
• leadership
• Amazon
• business
• transformation
• global sales
• digital era

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon

Books & works: Big Bet Leadership: Your Transformation Playbook for Winning in the Hyper-Digital Era

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