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Nov 14
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085: Keeping the Creative Juices Flowing with Prescott Perez-Fox

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Prescott Perez-Fox says: "There's a lot of folks giving advice, but not that many giving help."

Graphic designer Prescott Perez-Fox gets creative in finding solutions to getting in the zone, maintaining a smooth workflow, and more.

You’ll Learn:

  1. Great habits that your future self will thank you for
  2. How small rituals will help your team power through a project
  3. The classic/evolutionary/revolutionary system for generating broad alternatives

About Prescott
Prescott Perez-Fox is a New Jersey-based graphic designer and brand developer with more than 14 years of experience in branding, packaging, graphic design, and web design. Following varied experience working in-house for agencies, and as a freelancer, Prescott created his business, Starship Design, to work directly with small business and startup clients.

 

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Aug 15
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048: Creative Collaboration for Wicked Problems with Brook Manville

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Brook Manville says: "You've got to not spend your imagination worrying about all things that can go wrong, think about all things that can go right."

Executive development consultant Brook Manville shares how creatively collaborate with others to solve problems that keep evolving.

You’ll learn:
1. How to deal with “wicked problems”
2. How to channel your imagination for extra creativity
3. What the “trap of advocacy” is — and why you should avoid it

About Brook
Brook Manville is Principal of Brook Manville LLC, providing consulting and executive development on strategy and organization. He publishes on leadership, networks, and learning communities at Forbes and elsewhere. He coaches leaders on their organizational effectiveness, in the context of a hyperconnected world. He’s a former Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Organization Practice (and the firm’s first Director of Knowledge Management). He’s held senior positions at Saba Software and United Way of America. His first job was as an assistant professor of history at Northwestern University, teaching and publishing on classical Greek democracy. He’s a graduate of Yale and Oxford. Brook and his family live in metro Washington, D.C.

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Aug 10
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047: Creating Ideal Work Spaces with Leigh Stringer

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Leigh Stringer says: "This [control of the physical environment] is actually a tool that can increase productivity, not inhibit it... offer more choice, not less."

Architect and author Leigh Stringer shares how to adjust your workspace to enhance your performance.

You’ll learn:
1. The powerful connection between relaxation and creativity
2. What “biophilia” means and how it can improve your performance
3. The difference between good workers and great workers we learned from athletes

About Leigh
Leigh Stringer, LEED AP, is a workplace strategy expert and researcher whose work has been covered by national media, including CNN, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and Good Morning America. She works for EYP, an architecture, engineering and building technology firm. She is the author of the book The Healthy Workplace: How to Improve the Well-Being of Your Employees—and Boost Your Company’s Bottom Line and lives with her husband and two daughters in Washington, DC.

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Aug 08
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046: Generating and Selling Ideas with Afif Ghannoum

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Afif Ghannoum says: "There's nothing wrong with borrowing and iterating off the shoulders of giants to come up with better ideas."

Inventor extraordinaire Afif Ghannoum shares tactics for conceiving, testing, and selling great ideas.

You’ll learn:
1. The conditions necessary for creativity to flourish
2. How to successfully borrow, tweak, and validate ideas from giants
3. The three credibilities you need for a compelling story

About Afif
Afif Ghannoum is the founder of NapkinToShelf.com. He is a formerly frustrated lawyer, who has launched over ten products that have sold in over 27,000 stores and online. Afif also has two patents, licensed technology to a large pharma company for a product sold in tens of thousands of stores in multiple countries, and has raised nearly $9 Million (and counting) in venture funding.

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Jul 22
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039: Knowing What You Don’t Know with William Poundstone

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William Poundstone says: "You can Google any single fact, but what you can't Google is what you don't know, what you should be looking up, because... there's something that you don't know."

Author William Poundstone discusses the importance of knowledge in your head the modern era.

You’ll learn:
1. Why it’s important to still have general knowledge in the era of Google
2. Why those who listen to podcasts tend to be the most informed people of all 😉
3. It’s nearly impossible for humans to be unpredictable.

About William
William Poundstone is the author of 15 books, including Fortune’s Formula, which was named Amazon Editors’ pick for #1 Nonfiction Book of the year. He has written for The New York Times Book Review, Village Voice, Esquire, Harpers, The Believer, The Economist, and Harvard Business Review. Poundstone lives in Los Angeles.

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