049 - Creative Strategy — with Douglas Davis

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

4.9 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Douglas Davis was the kid who was drawing when the teacher was lecturing, creating when others were just coasting. With the help of a nurturing mother, and a lot of talent and hustle, Douglas worked his way into a design career, but always wanted more. He had spent a lot of his life creating, but came to a point where he wanted to explore the business side, as well, and moved into strategy. In this week's conversation, Chris talks to Douglas about growing up and going to school with very few resources, moving into the world of strategy and the value it has provided both for Douglas's clients and himself, and Douglas's hustle as a teacher, bringing up a new generation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the story of the professor who never intended to go to college.
0:07.0	Do what you love and do it relentlessly. Do it better than other people because you work so hard.
0:20.0	When other people, if you sacrifice in ways that most people don't get to sacrifice, you get to enjoy benefits
0:24.8	most people don't get to enjoy.
0:26.8	I live by that. All right, guys, my next guess is a heavyweight. And the way I found out about my next guess is a heavy weight and the way I found out about my next guess is a little unusual.
0:45.4	I'm on Amazon and I buy a lot of books and I guess Amazon has figured something out
0:50.4	about me because up pops this book and it's called Creative Strategy and
0:55.6	the Business of Design. I don't ever do this but I bought the book site unseen
1:00.5	I didn't read review or anything and why why would I do that because the title
1:06.4	spoke to me creative strategy this is what I believe in and he's calling it the
1:12.2	business of design which you guys know we calling it the business of design, which you guys know.
1:14.0	We talk about the business of design and the design of business.
1:17.0	So I've been very fortunate to actually meet my next guest in person
1:21.0	when we're both speaking in Toronto at the Design Thinkers Convention.
1:25.0	Well without further ado, Douglas Davis, welcome to the show.
1:30.0	Thanks for being here.
1:31.0	Thank you, Chris. I really appreciate appreciate and I feel like I was just as
1:35.0	fortunate to meet you as well I remember one of my former students like five years ago
1:41.6	paying me one day I stay in contact with all of them. But she pinged me one day.
1:46.2	She was like, hey professor, do you know this guy named Christo? He's talking about your book. And at that time, as you mentioned, we didn't even know each other so she sent me a
1:55.8	link and I'm like wow this is this is pretty cool so yeah good to meet you. That's so that's very reaffirming to me that the pieces of content that we create can actually through just one or two degrees of separation, reach back to the people that I'm talking about and trying to celebrate and share their knowledge.
2:18.0	Oh, yeah. Now, for, now for a lot of our guests who may not have heard of who you are or have read this book,
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