189: Jennifer Mueller - Why Leaders Should Embrace Creative Change

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🗓️ 6 February 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Episode 189: Jennifer Mueller - Why Leaders Should Embrace Creative Change

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"If you're calculating risk, then it's not creative."

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

Common themes of leaders who sustain excellence:
- Mindset to learn
- Curiosity is the most important
- Thinking like an inventor... Curious by asking "What does this mean?"
Why is their pressure to perform immediately?
- It's a followers mindset -- Anchor to the competitors and play the rat race game
- This does not allow you to break away from the competition
- If you want to change the status quo, you cannot think this way
There are no shortcuts...
Why write the book?
- Studied how people generated ideas
- Was cynical at first, but what Jen learned is that leaders don't know how to manage for innovation
Why do ideas get rejected?
- "If you're calculating risk, then it's not creative."
How to give yourself a better shot for the idea to get traction?
- Give a feedback pitch and not a selling pitch... Ask for feedback and advice
Her famous study -- "The Bias Against Creativity"
Overcoming the bias against creative leadership
- Backlash against the people who generate the idea -- It's not good
- Might be promoting people on out of date measures
- Mis-reading skill set
"Creative Leaders have to ask questions and be curious"
"Stop generating ideas, start making impact"
Have a change circle... Talk about how you can push your idea through

"Creative leaders must ask questions... And be curious."

Continue Learning:

Follow Jen on Twitter: @JennSMueller
Read: Creative Change
Connect with me on LinkedIn
Join our Facebook Group: The Learning Leader Community
To Follow Me on Twitter: @RyanHawk12

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0:00.0	Now as I say this many of your listeners may go, I don't want them to own my idea, it's my idea, it's my unique identity, it's who I am, and I'll say to you, I understand, but the real way it works is any time a decision-maker says yes to something, a little bit
0:18.8	of them believes that they've owned it. That they also recognize the potential.
0:25.0	And you know what, they're right.
0:27.1	They're right, because without those gatekeepers
0:28.6	saying, yes, you're dead in the water anyways.
0:31.0	Our leaders born or are they made?
0:33.4	Our host Ryan Hawk believes that leaders can be made through determined, focused work on learning
0:38.6	the art and science behind the makeup of other successful leaders.
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