ATG 96: How to spark creativity when you feel like there’s none left - my interview with innovation expert Jeremy Utley

All It Takes Is A Goal

Jon Acuff

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🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Creativity and innovation are commonly viewed as fleeting moments of inspiration that must be grand, life-altering, and totally new. No wonder they can feel so intimidating. But what if they were actually muscles that could be stretched and grown slowly over time with practice?

In this episode Director of Executive Education at Stanford’s acclaimed Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka the d.school), Jeremy Utley is here to teach you how to do that. Jeremy is a self-proclaimed “recovering MBA, spreadsheet junkie, and management consultant,” who now studies innovation in large enterprises and startups. In this episode, he’ll teach you how to tap into your Idea Flow, reframe problems, and provoke your imagination so that creativity becomes as natural as learning any other skill.

Jeremy's Book List:
The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
Shoe Dog by Phil Night
Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
Where Good Ideas Come From by Stephen Johnson
Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull

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Follow Jeremy on Twitter or LinkedIn

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0:00.0	Hey everyone and welcome to the All It Takes A Go podcast.
0:12.2	The best place in the entire world, including all of Canada, all of it.
0:18.2	To learn how to build new thoughts, new actions and new results, I'm your host John Akef
0:21.6	and today I'm joined by Jeremy Utley.
0:24.1	Who's that?
0:25.1	I'm so glad you asked.
0:27.4	Jeremy Utley is the director of executive education at Stanford's acclaimed Hoso Plotner
0:32.5	Institute of Design, aka the D-School, where he leads the D-School's work with organizations.
0:39.2	Stanford, very, very impressive.
0:42.0	He's a self-proclaimed recovering MBA, spreadsheet, junkie and management consultant, and he
0:46.8	now studies innovation in large enterprises and startups.
0:49.9	He divides the CEOs and senior leadership teams in the United States, Europe and Asia
0:54.2	on growth and innovation strategy, and has led scores of capacity building initiatives
0:59.2	worldwide in his last dozen years at Stanford.
1:02.8	He's a prolific blogger and podcaster, and he's a co-author alongside with Perry Kleban.
1:09.4	Oh man, Perry, I'm just going to say Perry because I'm sure I've brutalized that last
1:13.5	name.
1:14.5	Perry Kleban, I think it's a silent age.
1:17.9	They wrote a book together called Idea Flow, the only business metric that matters.
1:22.4	Let's do out from Penguin portfolio.
1:24.8	I had a couple books with Penguin portfolio, amazing publisher, and he's happily married.
1:29.1	It's a father of four lovely daughters, and we had a fun, fun conversation.
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