521: How to Generate 100 Ideas in 10 Minutes with Dr. Roger Firestien
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 6 December 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Roger Firestien shares his simple method for generating more original ideas.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The four guidelines for generating ideas.
2) Why silly warm ups seriously help brainstorming.
3) The magic number for creative ideas.
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— ABOUT ROGER —
Dr. Roger Firestien has taught more people to lead the creative process than anyone else in the world. By applying Roger’s work in creativity:
- Clorox solved a 77-year-old problem in 15 minutes;
- General Motors came up with a $1.50 solution that saved the company $50,000 a week;
- Mead Paper developed a world-class line of products and saved $500,000 a year;
Called “The Gold Standard” of creativity training by his clients, he has presented programs in creativity to over 600 organizations nationally and internationally. Roger’s latest book Create in a Flash: A Leader's Recipe for Breakthrough Innovation provides techniques to grow personal and team capacity for tackling tough challenges and recession proofing any business.
• Book: Create in a Flash: A Leader's Recipe for Breakthrough Innovation
• Book site: CreateInAFlashBook.com
• Roger’s website: RogerFirestien.com
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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, Steve McKitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 521 |
| 0:22.0 | with Dr. Roger Firestein. |
| 0:23.8 | Rogers got some great perspective on how to generate a bundle of ideas quickly. |
| 0:28.8 | So you'll learn one, the four guidelines for generating ideas, |
| 0:31.6 | two why city warm-ups seriously help brainstorming, |
| 0:34.5 | and three, the magic number to push for in generating creative ideas. So if you want to check |
| 0:39.6 | out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've referenced. |
| 0:43.0 | You'll find that over at awesome at your job. |
| 0:44.0 | dot com slash F521. |
| 0:47.0 | And I hope you'll also check out |
| 0:48.0 | some of the other cool resources at awesome at your job |
| 0:50.0 | dot com, such as every episode tagged by the topic and the competency covered and more goodies over that away at |
| 0:58.5 | awesome at your job.com. Now here's Roger's story. Dr Roger Firestein has taught more people to lead the creative process than anyone else in the world. |
| 1:07.0 | By applying Roger's working creativity, Clorox solved a 77 year old problem in 15 minutes. |
| 1:12.0 | General Motors came up with a $1.50 solution |
| 1:15.2 | that saved the company $50,000 a week. |
| 1:18.0 | And Meade paper developed a world-class line of products |
| 1:21.0 | and saved half a million bucks a year. |
| 1:23.4 | Good stuff. |
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