How Great Organizations do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways with Bill Taylor
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2016
⏱️ 70 minutes
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I’ve become absolutely convinced, when we look at how innovation happens inside organizations or how individuals come up with interesting ideas, where such powerful insights come from the most unexpected places. And the way leaders increase the chances for those insights or innovations to happen is when they can put lots and lots of people from lots of different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives together. And develop this architecture of participation where people who wouldn’t otherwise be talking or otherwise wouldn’t be on a project team, people who otherwise wouldn’t be in the same room are in fact in the same room. It’s amazing the kind of insights that can pop out. I think that way of going through life is a much more enriching and rewarding way of going through life. – Bill Taylor
Bill Taylor is the co-founder of Fast Company and the author of Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways.
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| 0:00.0 | I've become absolutely convinced and I'm jumping the gun a little bit but you know when we look at how innovation happened inside organizations or how individuals come up with interesting ideas and I'm just absolutely convinced that we live in a world where so so powerful |
| 0:17.4 | insights come from the most unexpected places and in the way |
| 0:26.7 | leaders you know, increase the chances for those insights or innovations to happen is when they can put, you know, lots and lots of people |
| 0:31.4 | from lots of lots of different backgrounds |
| 0:33.6 | experiences perspectives |
| 0:35.4 | together and develop you know this kind of architecture of participation where people |
| 0:39.5 | who wouldn't otherwise be talking people who otherwise wouldn't be at a project, people who otherwise wouldn't be in the same room, |
| 0:46.2 | are in fact talking, collaborating in the same room. |
| 0:48.6 | It's just amazing the kinds of insights that can pop out. and so I didn't mean to jump from the |
| 0:54.3 | biographical to the the the the the the the the |
| 0:57.8 | schematic but I just think that way of going through life is a much more rewarding and |
| 1:01.6 | enriching way of going through life. |
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