679: How to Become an Everyday Innovator and Unleash Your Creativity with Josh Linkner

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Josh Linkner breaks down the habits of great innovators and how you can become a great innovator in your own right.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How you can develop your creativity–no matter your role

2) The habits and mindsets of the greatest innovators

3) How to spark new ideas when you’re in a rut

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— ABOUT JOSH —

Josh Linkner is a Creative Troublemaker.

He has been the founder and CEO of five tech companies, which sold for a combined value of over $200 million. He’s the author of four books including the New York Times Bestsellers, Disciplined Dreaming and The Road to Reinvention. As the founding partner and former CEO of Detroit Venture Partners, he has been involved in the launch of over 100 startups.

Today, Josh serves as Chairman and co-founder of Platypus Labs, an innovation research, training, and consulting firm. He has twice been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and is a recipient of the United States Presidential Champion of Change Award.

Josh is also a passionate Detroiter, the father of four, a professional-level jazz guitarist, and has a slightly odd obsession for greasy pizza.

• Book: Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results

• Website: BigLittleBreakthroughs.com

• Personal Website: JoshLinkner.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

• Book: How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Katy Milkman

• Book: Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking by Jon Acuff

• Book: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma

• Book: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.2	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.6	to flourish at work.
0:10.1	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz.
0:16.1	Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 679 with Josh Linkner.
0:23.9	Josh has some excellent perspective on how you can be all the more creative, and why
0:28.8	that matters, even if you think, oh, I don't really have much room for the creativity
0:32.8	of my role.
0:33.8	Nay, he's got a great perspective on everyday innovation, the little cool things and ideas
0:38.9	you can bring to your work and life to experience nice, incremental improvements that make
0:45.3	a difference, are fun, make you look all the more awesome at your job.
0:49.7	So you'll learn one, how you can develop your creativity, no matter your role.
0:53.3	Two, the habits and mindsets of the greatest innovators, and three, how to spark new ideas
0:57.8	when you're in a rut.
0:59.1	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to How to Be
1:01.5	Referenced, I recommend you drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP679, and if you're
1:07.9	at awesome at your job.com, I recommend you take a look around, see all the cool resources
1:12.3	there, like searching the full text transcripts of all the guests, the gold nugget email summaries,
1:18.2	every episode tagged by the topic and competency covered.
1:21.3	So if this latest episode isn't exactly what you need urgently, it's still going to be
1:25.6	a lot of fun.
1:26.6	There's a whole lot of more episodes, 678 to be precise, that might have exactly what
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