048: Creative Collaboration for Wicked Problems with Brook Manville
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 15 August 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McChitis. |
| 0:16.1 | Well, hello, hello again, and welcome to episode 48. Can you believe it, time is flying. |
| 0:26.2 | That's so many episodes, my last episode was about choosing the ideal episode to start. |
| 0:31.2 | So you might check that one out if you don't know where to go |
| 0:33.4 | next from here but don't leave because you're in for a real treat with Dr. |
| 0:38.4 | Brooke Manville this man has such a towering intellect. |
| 0:42.8 | He's got his doctorate in history |
| 0:45.1 | and he has these great pieces |
| 0:47.7 | that are so thoughtful on Forbes.com |
| 0:49.8 | and he really just brings that sense of perspective to all his thinking on numerous topics |
| 0:55.9 | that affect you and your regular professional work life. |
| 0:59.1 | So you're going to learn one, how to deal with wicked problems, two, how to channel your imagination for extra creativity and three what is the |
| 1:06.7 | trap of advocacy and why you should avoid it so if you want to check out the |
| 1:12.0 | show notes the, the links to |
| 1:13.4 | things mentioned that's over at awesome at your job.com slash epp for eight and if you |
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| 1:20.8 | email list over at awesome at your job. |
| 1:22.8 | dot com where you'll get those pieces in an email you can read in under two minutes. |
| 1:28.0 | Here's a bit about Brooke. |
| 1:29.8 | Brooke Manville is Principal of Brooke Manville LLC providing consulting and executive development on strategy and |
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