Why businesses need a dreamer's magic and a doer's realism | Beth Viner

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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At work, the dreamers often get credit for the big ideas, but they can also sometimes seem untethered to reality to the doers, who are trying to ... get things done. It's when these two types of humans work in harmony that business magic happens, says culture strategist Beth Viner. She lays out a practical blueprint for harnessing the dreamer's out-of-the-box thinking and the doer's practicality, showing why it's the key to building, growing and innovating in any relationship or organization.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	Today's talk is about two types of personalities. At least Hugh, Hugh, you're listening to TED Talks Daily.
0:12.6	Today's talk is about two types of personalities
0:15.1	that show up in business and how important it is
0:17.9	to have both in order to make big projects work.
0:21.4	In our 2023 talk from Ted at BCG, Culture Strategist Beth Viner breaks
0:26.5	down how to build teams that don't just stream up big possibilities, but can make them
0:31.2	a reality too. after the break.
0:36.0	Some of the best relationships in the world are made up of individuals
0:40.0	who are the yin to the others yang. You're either the person who stacks the dishwasher
0:46.2	with creative reckless abandon,
0:49.2	or you're the one who correctly thinks of it as a very competitive game of Tetris.
0:56.0	And rather than what might be a series of expletives
0:59.0	as you restack the plates, it's the Tetris stacker
1:02.0	coming to some appreciation for the half hazard or the
1:06.6	tension breaks and that's a beautiful thing and you might even get a few
1:11.2	extra clean plates out of it.
1:13.4	This scenario isn't just true in our personal relationships.
1:17.2	It's true in relationships across institutions and organizations
1:21.0	of all types.
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