112: Nilofer Merchant | Make a Difference from Anywhere in the Hierarchy
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Nilofer Merchant (@nilofer) is one of the world's top-ranked business thinkers, an innovation expert, and the author of The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World.
What We Discuss with Nilofer Merchant:- How bias -- from others as well as ourselves -- works to stifle innovation and the spread of good ideas.
- The process by which ideas are created and spread and how we can exercise our own abilities to make our ideas heard -- even if we're at the bottom of the totem pole.
- Why we conform to expectations that were largely created decades ago and don't really have a place in the modern workforce.
- Where "left-field" ideas often originate and why they're often missed.
- What we can do to make the generation and capture of ideas more inclusive.
- And much more...
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| 1:34.6 | As always, I'm here with my producer Jason DeFilippo. Power and status have been on everyone's |
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