Robin Landa, The New Art of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
Your World of Creativity
Mark Stinson
5.0 • 45 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Robin Landa is a distinguished professor at Kean University and a globally recognized ideation expert. She is a well-known “creativity guru” and a best-selling author of books on creativity, design, and advertising. She has won numerous awards and The Carnegie Foundation counts her among the "Great Teachers of Our Time."
She has written twenty-five books, including Strategic Creativity, Graphic Design Solutions, Advertising by Design, Build Your Own Brand, Designing Brand Experiences, and Nimble.
About The New Art of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
In a world with a surplus of ideas, what separates a good idea from a bad one?
In her breakthrough book, The New Art of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential (Berrett-Koehler Publishers; November 8, 2022), Robin Landa offers a comprehensive and actionable guide on how to produce the kind of ideas people can’t turn down.
The New Art of Ideas is designed to help readers consistently produce worthwhile ideas by becoming nimble and imaginative thinkers better equipped to compete and produce in a global economy.
In the book, Landa presents her proven framework for generating consequential ideas,
The Three Gs— the first new idea generation technique since brainstorming.
• Goal—What you want to achieve
• Gap—The missing piece that your idea provides
• Gain—The overall benefits of your idea
This book is about how to get great ideas. Not just lots of ideas, but ideas worth pursuing that get results. With explanations and examples of each component, The New Art of Ideas demystifies the process of effective ideation and hands you the key to unlock your creative potential.
Actor Holly Taylor (Manifest; The Americans) illustrated the book and Broadway director and choreographer Lorin Latarro wrote the foreword.
Drawing from her expertise and key themes in The New Art of Ideas, we discuss:
· The new framework for valuable ideation: The Three Gs — Goal, Gap, and Gain
· How to use the fluid process (in any order) to generate, crystalize, amplify, and evaluate worthwhile ideas across disciplines and industries
· How to evaluate the validity of your ideas so that you don’t waste time on fruitless endeavors
· How the Three Gs process differs from others— It’s an actionable system vs. a black box ideation method that depends on an elusive Aha! moment
· The benefits of the Three Gs: How worthwhile ideas impact profit, people, and the planet
· How diversity, equity, and inclusion can amplify the Three Gs process
· How leaders and organizations can employ this process in their companies to get ahead of the competition in an idea-based economy
· How individuals at any level can develop creative habits— and where to start
· Are you a gap seeker? Critical steps to identify key growth opportunities
· The impacts that emotion and doubt play in goal setting— and how to overcome the obstacles
· Notable examples of how impactful ideas were developed
The New Art of Ideas is available on Amazon and everywhere books are sold.
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| 0:00.0 | We've created a special offer just for listeners of the podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | You can get the book A World of Creativity for a special price of $5.98 for paperback. |
| 0:09.1 | And the Kindle version is only $0.99. |
| 0:12.0 | Go to markhyphenstinson.com to take advantage of this special offer. |
| 0:21.8 | Tap into your most original thinking. |
| 0:24.4 | Organize your ideas. |
| 0:26.5 | And create the opportunities to launch your creative work. |
| 0:30.9 | Unlocking your world of creativity with best-selling author and brand innovator Mark Stinson. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome back to our podcast Unlocking Your World of Creativity. |
| 0:43.8 | And there's not a single of us listeners today who hasn't been in a brainstorming session |
| 0:49.0 | sometime in our life and our careers. |
| 0:51.8 | And you get this whiteboard full of ideas, you get your paper, the walls, with the flip charts. |
| 0:57.2 | And then you say, how do I know which ideas are good and which ideas are bad? |
| 1:02.6 | All we did was create a list of ideas. |
| 1:04.7 | But we're going to talk about how to look for those consequential ideas. |
| 1:10.1 | With our guest today, Robin Landa. |
| 1:12.8 | Robin, welcome to the show. |
| 1:14.5 | Thank you so much, Mark. |
| 1:15.8 | I'm really looking forward to speaking with you. |
| 1:18.0 | It's going to be a great conversation. |
| 1:19.6 | After even almost 225 interviews, Robin, talking about creative practice, |
| 1:25.0 | how we do the work is often as important as the work we're actually doing. |
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