Wrap Up 2: How Do You Remain Creative And Expose Yourself To Fresh Perspectives?

OutsideVoices with Mark Bidwell

We believe passionately in the power of multiple perspectives to build and sustain innovation ecosystems.

And yet we are all creatures of habits, following schedules and routines that enable us to continue to perform at high levels, but which might leave us with little room for exploring the new. So unless we proactively seek out fresh perspectives, we run the risk of remaining in our own personal bubbles, surrounded by people who think only like us, so increasing the risk of biases like groupthink, not-invented-here and confirmation bias.

We always ask our guests what they do to remain fresh, to seek out diverse perspectives, and the answers are often surprisingly simple and practical. Here we provide a selection of tactics, all of which are easy to do, but are equally easy not to do. By regularly exercising your innovation muscles, the benefits to you and your organisation will build up and compound over time, as these world class performers have discovered.

Guests featured in this episode:

• Meaning Makers: How Top Leaders Use Stories with David Pearl
• Back in the Game: EA's Near Death Experience with Andy Billings
• Dual Transformation and Why Noah's Arc Management Can't Work with Scott Anthony
• Bottling Amazonian Wisdom with Tyler Gage, the Co-Founder of RUNA
• Gambling on Innovation: How To Be Productively Wrong With Luis Perez-Breva of MIT
• When Big and Small Make Great with Brad Feld
• Innovating, Medici Style with Frans Johansson
• The Return on Investment of Mental Models with Robert Hagstrom
• Confessions of a Corporate Insurgent with Gib Bulloch

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