#214: Scott Harrison, Founder and CEO of charity: water – The power of pattern thinking

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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If you want to ignite your creativity and develop great ideas, you’ve got to understand the power of pattern thinking. It’s the ability to spot what’s working for someone else, and then adapt it to your own situation to create something new. And this episode’s guest is an outstanding pattern thinker. Scott Harrison is the founder of the nonprofit charity:water, which works to bring clean, safe water to the more than 700 million people in the world who need it. Listen to this conversation to see pattern thinking is helping him do it—and how you can put this skill to work in your world, too. You’ll also learn: How to build a compelling brand What a major career pivot looks like The power of storytelling One way to keep your blindspots from setting you back Here is the article David mentioned: Six practical ideas to transform your business with the power of pattern thinking Take your learning further. Get proven leadership advice from these (free!) resources: The How Leaders Lead App: A vast library of 90-second leadership lessons to stay sharp on the go Daily Insight Emails: One small (but powerful!) leadership principle to focus on each day Whichever you choose, you can be sure you’ll get the trusted leadership advice you need to advance your career, develop your team, and grow your business.

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0:00.0	I'm really interested in technology, David. So for years, instead of reading the Chronicle
0:04.0	philanthropy or, you know, trade magazines in the charity world, I would read Wired. I would read Fast Company.
0:10.6	I would read ink. We have some really interesting sensor technology that was inspired by Nest.
0:15.6	When the smart home came out many years ago, I thought, well, if there's a smart home, why can't we have smart wells?
0:28.6	If you want to ignite your creativity and develop great ideas, there's one skill that you can't
0:34.5	afford to miss, but most leaders have never heard of it. Welcome to How
0:39.1	Leaders Lead. I'm David Novak, and every week I have conversations with the very best leaders in the
0:45.0	world to help you become the best leader you can be. My guest today is Scott Harrison, the founder and
0:51.1	CEO of the nonprofit charity water. Their mission is to bring clean, safe
0:55.8	drinking water to the 703 million people in the world who still don't have access to it. And to do it,
1:04.0	Scott has taken an out-of-the-box approach to running a nonprofit, and it has truly changed the game.
1:10.6	You see, Scott is a great example of what I
1:12.5	call a pattern thinker, someone who compare two seemingly different things that aren't obviously
1:18.3	related and then create something new and exciting. It's been a key part of what's made
1:23.9	Charity Water so effective, and it's a leadership superpower you've got to develop if you want to be more innovative.
1:32.2	So let's dive in and see how it's done.
1:34.5	Here's my conversation with my good friend and soon to be yours, Scott Harrison.
1:44.0	I understand this is a big day for charity water.
1:47.3	What happened today?
1:48.6	It is.
1:49.2	Well, we were at $999 million raised yesterday.
1:54.0	And this morning, a wonderful family from Dallas, Texas put us over the billion dollars raised since we started
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