How to Be Awesome at Your Job - 210: How to Generate Many Creative Ideas with Tina Seelig (Presenter of "The little risks you can take to increase your luck" at TEDTalks Business)

210: How to Generate Many Creative Ideas with Tina Seelig (Presenter of "The little risks you can take to increase your luck" at TEDTalks Business)

09/27/17 • 46 min

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Professor Tina Seelig talks about the critical components, principles, and tactics for bringing ideas into your imagination and out into the world. You'll Learn: The two requirements of imagination How to generate many new solutions via framing and reframing The argument for brainstorming About Tina: Tina Seelig is Professor of the Practice in Stanford University’s Department of Management Science and Engineering, and is a faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. She teaches courses in the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) and leads three fellowship programs in the School of Engineering that are focused on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Dr. Seelig earned her PhD in Neuroscience at Stanford Medical School, and has been a management consultant, entrepreneur, and author of 17 books, including Insight Out (2016), inGenius (2012), and What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 (2009). She is the recipient of the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the Olympus Innovation Award, and the Silicon Valley Visionary Award. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep210 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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209: How to Get Better at Anything with Tom Bilyeu (Host of Impact Theory)

Quest Nutrition founder Tom Bilyeu shows how to get better at anything by having crystal clear goals, a growth mindset, and powerful systems. You'll Learn: The WOOP process for figuring out if you should persist or quit How to make the switch from discovering to developing your passion Why identity drives behavior and not the other way around About Tom: Tom Bilyeu is the co-founder of 2014 Inc. 500 company Quest Nutrition — a unicorn startup valued at over $1 billion — and the co-founder and host of Impact Theory. Tom’s mission is the creation of empowering media-based IP and the acceleration of mission-based businesses. Personally driven to help people develop the skills they will need to improve themselves and the world, Tom is intent to use commerce to address the dual pandemics of physical and mental malnourishment. Tom regularly inspires audiences of entrepreneurs, change makers, and thought leaders at some of the most prestigious conferences and seminars around the world, including Abundance 360, A-fest, and Freedom Fast Lane. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep209 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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211: Creating Great Choices to Resolve Tough Questions with Jennifer Riel

Jennifer Riel illustrates how successful thinkers can create great choices rather than tolerate unacceptable trade-offs via her practical methodology for implementing integrated thinking.

You’ll Learn:

1) Why you should fall in love with opposing approaches to solving a problem

2) How to hold two approaches in tension to discover optimal solutions

3) The three questions to creating better answers

About Jennifer

Jennifer Riel is an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, specializing in creative problem solving. Her focus is on helping everyone, from undergraduate students to business executives, to create better choices, more of the time.

An award-winning teacher, Jennifer leads training on integrative thinking, strategy and innovation, both at the Rotman School and at organizations of all types, from small non-profits to some of the largest companies in the world.

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