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SuperCreativity Podcast with James Taylor | Creativity, Innovation and Inspiring Ideas

In the SuperCreativity™ podcast, creativity expert and innovation keynote speaker James Taylor interviews leading thinkers, innovators and performers and has them reveal their strategies and techniques to help you unlock your own creative potential. If you enjoy listening to conversations with creative thinkers, innovators, entrepreneurs, artists, authors, educators, and performers then you’ve come to the right place. Each week we discuss their ideas, life, work, successes, failures, creative process and much more. As a leading creativity and innovation keynote speaker James teaches and interviews creative leaders including Seth Godin, David Allen, Jonathan Fields, Amy Edmondson, Amanda Palmer, Chris Guillebeau, Tommy Emmanuel, Eric Ries and Donald Miller on subjects including; how creativity works, the creative process, what is creativity, how to generate ideas, creativity exercises, creativity research, creative block, creative personality types, theories of creativity, creative thinking, educational creativity, divergent thinking, organizational creativity, creative cultures, and innovation. His work builds on other leading creativity experts including Julia Cameron, Sir Ken Robinson, Michael J Gelb, Eric Maisel, Scott Barry Kaufman, Twyla Tharp, Todd Henry, Jeff Goins, Richard Florida, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Steven Pressfield, Tina Seelig, Josh Linkner and many others. James Taylor shows us how we can all learn to be more creative.
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Jun 29, 2022

The World’s Most Creative People With Debbie Millman – #337

Named as “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, Debbie Millman is a designer, author, educator, curator and host of the podcast “Design Matters,” one of the world’s first and longest running podcasts. In the 16 years since its inception, “Design Matters” has garnered a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, six Webby nominations, and an Apple Podcasts “best overall podcast” designation. In 2009 Debbie co-founded with Steven Heller the world’s first graduate program in branding at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her writing and illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Print Magazine, Design Observer and Fast Company. She is the author of seven books, including her latest, Why Design Matters, a book she describes as ‘a love letter to creativity, a testament to the power of curiosity. It features nearly 60 interviews curated from her podcast show with guests including Brené Brown, Tim Ferriss, Anne Lamott, Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, David Byrne and Maria Popova. These conversations explore what it means to design a creative life, the creative process, dealing with rejection, and the relationship between humanity and creativity. Welcome to the SuperCreativity Podcast Debbie Millman.

Jun 23, 2022

The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley With Jimmy Soni – #336

Jun 14, 2022

The New Leadership Playbook with Andrew Bryant – #335

 

Being an effective leader in a post-pandemic world goes beyond being good at what you do; it requires balancing empathy with accountability. In The New Leadership Playbook, self-leadership coach Andrew Bryant provides a practical guide to being human and understanding people, whilst simultaneously driving for accelerated results. For nearly 25 years Andrew Bryant has been transforming individuals and organizations with his Self-Leadership Methodology and has delivered training, coaching and keynotes on five continents in 20+ Countries to 200,000+ Executives.

Jun 8, 2022

The Creative Brain With Dr Iain McGilchrist – #334

My guest today says that in order to understand ourselves and the world we need science and intuition, reason and imagination. Dr. Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher, and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and a former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He is the author of a number of books but is best known for The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. In his latest book The Matter With Things he argues that we have become enslaved to an account of things dominated by the brain’s left hemisphere, one that blinds us to an awe-inspiring reality that is all around us.

May 31, 2022

How Emotions Shape Our Thinking With Leonard Mlodinow – #333

May 24, 2022

Lean Innovation Problem Solving With Peter Newell – #332

Peter Newell is a nationally recognized innovation expert whose work is transforming how the government and other large organizations compete and drive growth. 

He is the CEO of BMNT, a Palo Alto-based innovation consultancy and early-stage technology incubator that helps solve some of the hardest real-world problems in national security, state and local governments, and beyond. He is also a founder and co-author, with Lean Startup founder Steve Blank, of Hacking for Defense (H4D)®, an academic program that engages students to solve critical national security problems and gain crucial problem-solving experience while performing a national service. Pete is a retired US Army colonel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. From 2010 through 2013 he was the Director of the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) charged with rapidly finding, integrating and employing solutions to emerging problems faced in the battlefield. This experience gave him a unique perspective on how to anticipate competitive challenges and head them off quickly, whether on the battlefield or in the board room.

May 18, 2022

Innovation Is All About People With Alison Hawks – #331

May 12, 2022

Overcoming Resistance To Innovation with Jim Euchner – #330

May 7, 2022

Human Creativity in the Age of Analytics With Chris Jones #328

Apr 26, 2022

The Lean Startup Approach With Steve Blank #327

Apr 19, 2022

Project Management And Leadership With Anh Dao Pham – #326

Apr 12, 2022

How to Find What You Love With Marcus Buckingham

Did you know that less than 16 percent of us are fully engaged at work, with the rest of us just selling our time and talent and getting compensated for our troubles? Meanwhile, many leaders' energy levels are depleted; employees are burning out at an alarming rate, and parents met their breaking point long ago. When it comes to work my guest today argues that we are getting something terribly wrong. He believes we've designed the love out of our workplaces so that they fail utterly to provide for or capitalize on, one of our most basic human needs: our need for love. Marcus Buckingham is a global researcher and the world’s authority on what the most effective leaders and highest-performing people do differently. He is the New York Times best-selling author of two of the most popular business books of all time, First, Break All the Rules, and Now, Discover Your StrengthsMarcus is the creator of the StandOut strengths assessment and the co-creator of StrengthsFinder - his strengths assessments have been completed by over 25 million people worldwide. Building on two decades of experience as a Senior Researcher at The Gallup Organization, he leveraged his data-based discoveries to build a $100 million tech company focused on helping people find and contribute their strengths at work. Beginning with First, Break All the Rules, and continuing through his latest book Love and Work he is known for using reliable psychometric data to get to the core of what drives engagement, resilience, and productivity. Welcome to the SuperCreativity Podcast Marcus Buckingham.
Mar 29, 2022

Sebastian Mallaby: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption

Innovations rarely come from “experts". When it comes to improbable innovations, one legendary tech Venture capitalist told my guest today that the future cannot be predicted, it can only be discovered. Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul Volcker Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Washington Post columnist. In his new book The Power Law - Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption, he has parlayed unprecedented access to the most celebrated venture capitalists of all time—the key figures at Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Accel, Benchmark, and Andreessen Horowitz, as well as Chinese partnerships such as Qiming and Capital Today—into a riveting blend of storytelling and analysis that unfurls the history of tech incubation, in Silicon Valley and ultimately worldwide.

Mar 22, 2022

Elaine Pofeldt: Strategies for Creating a High-Revenue Business

Whether you’ve launched your own e-commerce endeavor, built your own professional services firm, sold online courses or membership programs, or are just itching to flex your entrepreneurial muscles, starting a small business – a company with 20 employees or fewer – is a rewarding way to earn a living and get creative. In Elaine Pofeldt’s new book ‘Tiny Business, Big Money’ she reveals the strategies for creating a high-revenue microbusiness. In it, she reveals insightful profiles of nearly 60 micro-businesses that hit $1 million in annual revenue including 49 that hit seven figures with either no payroll or very small teams. Elaine is a journalist specializing in entrepreneurship and is also the author of The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business. Her work has appeared in CNBC, Fortune, Forbes, Money, and the Tim Ferriss Show

 

Mar 15, 2022

The Art And Business of Turning Your Ideas into Gold – #321

Mar 8, 2022

David Schonthal: Overcoming the Resistance That Awaits New Ideas.

David Schonthal is an award-winning Professor of Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management where he teaches courses on new venture creation, design thinking, healthcare innovation, and creativity. Along with his colleague Loran Nordgren, David is one of the originators of Friction Theory – a ground-breaking methodology that explains why even the most promising innovations and change initiatives often struggle to gain traction with their intended audiences – and what to do about it.  This work is popularized in David’s bestselling new book, The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance That Awaits New Ideas.

Mar 1, 2022

How to achieve your worthy goals – #319

Feb 22, 2022

The Future Of Office Work With Julia Hobsbawm – #318

Feb 15, 2022
Daniel Lamarre: Cirque du Soleil Executive Vice-Chairman - #317

Without creativity, there is no business. That is an idea that has guided Cirque du Soleil Executive Vice-Chairman Daniel Lamarre as he helped grow and pilot a billion-dollar business through stormy waters. In his new book Balancing Acts, Daniel shares what it takes for anyone, regardless of position or industry, to embrace the value of creative leadership. Because Cirque du Soleil is an unusual business. It has no physical products, no factories or inventory, no pricey real estate. Instead, they have something far more valuable: the limitless creativity that springs from the minds, hearts, and bodies of their artists. Welcome to SuperCreativity Podcast, Daniel Lamarre.

Feb 8, 2022

Fredrik Haren Dream-Inspired Creativity – #316

Feb 1, 2022
Daniel Pink: The Power Of Regret – #314

The Power Of Regret

Regrets, I've had a few. But then again, too few to mention. These lines from the Frank Sinatra hit 'My Way' can often be heard at funerals across the Western world. And according to one study of the common emotions that people feel each day, the two mentioned most often were love and regret. So it's surprising that while there are over 200,000 books on Amazon with love in the title there are only 30,000 with the word regret. So what is this thing called regret and how can looking backward in our lives help us move forward. That's what our guest today will help us explore. Daniel Pink is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books including Drive, To Sell Is Human, A Whole New Mind, and his latest, THE POWER OF REGRET. These books have sold millions of copies around the world, been translated into forty-two languages, and have won multiple awards. His ability to combine deep research and inspire audiences has led Daniel Pink to become one of the top keynote speakers and foremost business minds of our day. Welcome to the show Daniel Pink.  
  1. You call the idea of one having 'no regrets' as 'a delightful but dangerous doctrine'. Why do you believe this?
  2. You have a background in politics and before we came on the call today I was watching a politician apologize for something he claimed he had no knowledge of happening and wasn't responsible for. So can we only truly feel regret for those situations that we are directly responsible for? For example, can I feel regret for actions my great-great-grandfather took?
  3. I was reading a blog post recently written by a palliative care nurse. She was recounting the most common regrets that patients share with her in their final days. In your book you describe the four most common categories of regrets, we have in our lives. What are those?
  4. Someone was telling me the other day that elephants, dogs, and rats display emotions of regret. For example, elephants cover those animals and humans with branches that they have killed in rage. Do you think that other non-humans, like machines with artificial intelligence, could learn to regret their decisions? I'm thinking here of the concept of 'reinforcement learning' in where a computer uses feedback from its actions and experiences to improve its algorithms.
  5. In your book 'A Whole New Mind' you explored creativity. Which ideas and techniques in that book did you use when writing 'The Power of Regret'.
  6. In creativity, we often hear of the concept of creative pairs. Jobs & Wozniak, Lennon & McCartney. In your creative work who is that person that helps you take your work to a higher level and how do they do that?
  7. For the Power of Regret, you undertook extensive research and I'm assuming this required a team of people. Can you tell me what regrets you have had when it comes to creating with a team, and how reflecting on this has improved your decision-making in future projects?
  8. How do you keep your thinking fresh? What influences do you try to surround yourself with?
  9. Do you use technology in any ways that either free up your time for creativity or help you to augment your creativity? How so?

 

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