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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

294: Generating Greatness from Creative Workers with Todd Henry (Host of the Accidental Creative podcast)

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Founder of The Accidental Creative, Todd Henry, shares lessons learned from managing creative employees AKA “herding tigers.”   You'll Learn: Why bounded autonomy produces the best creative results The right--and wrong--way to provide feedback on creative output How you may be subtly eroding trust   About Todd: Todd Henry teaches leaders and organizations how to establish practices that lead to everyday brilliance. He is the author of four books (The Accidental Creative, Die Empty, Louder Than Words, and Herding Tigers) which have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and he speaks and consults across dozens of industries on creativity, leadership, and passion for work. His book Die Empty was named by Amazon.com as one of the best books of 2013. His latest book, Herding Tigers, is about what creative people need from their leader, and how to give it to them.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep294 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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.

0:16.3

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here

0:21.2

for episode 294 with Todd Henry.

0:23.7

This is really fun because I've seen Todd Henry's name and

0:26.6

podcast many many times in the iTunes rankings and he's a champ,

0:30.9

accidental creative, it's been going for 13 years and he's a champ, accidental creative, it's been going for 13 years and he just has loads of

0:36.6

insight that comes from true experience.

0:38.8

So you'll learn one, why bounded autonomy produces the best creative results,

0:43.4

to the right and wrong way to provide feedback

0:46.4

on creative output, and three,

0:48.6

how you may be subtly eroding trust.

0:51.8

So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the

0:54.1

links to items that we've referenced it's over at awesome at your job.com slash

0:57.8

epp 294. Here is Todd's story. Todd Henry teaches leaders and organizations how to establish practices that lead to everyday

1:06.3

brilliance.

1:07.3

He's the author of four books, The Accidental Creative, Die Empty, Louder Than Words,

1:11.2

and Herding Tigers, which has been translated into more than a dozen

1:14.9

languages and he speaks and consults across dozens of industries on creativity, leadership

1:19.1

and the passion for work. His book Die Empty was named by Amazon.com as one of the best books of 2013.

1:25.0

And his latest book, Herding Tigers, is about what creative people need from their leader

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