Igniting Creativity -- Your Most Important Competitive Advantage: Featuring Josh Linkner

What's the riskiest move a company can make today? Doing the same old, same old. Hugging the status quo. Staying the course in spite of a changing marketplace. In a world economy that can flip in a nanosecond, thinking that the future will follow the past is the fast road to obsolescence. What's the antidote? Igniting your company's creativity. Finding new routes to growth, profitability and innovation with Josh Linkner.

Linkner jolts organizations and people worldwide, helping them recharge their creativity to reawaken companies and careers. A successful five-time entrepreneur and well-respected jazz musician, he bridges the gap between the arts and business to help audiences maximize their creative potential. Linkner teaches, inspires, and entertains. He is on a mission to make the world a more creative planet by providing powerful, fun, and practical techniques that push all levels of the business world to jumpstart their creative energies. Applying Linkner's proprietary system, Disciplined Dreaming, you will notice immediate and profound results. You will unleash hidden creativity and fresh thinking in every setting -- from your weekly staff meeting to major innovation sessions to new product breakthroughs. You will tap into a deep well of inspiration and new ideas, any one of which could dramatically alter your company, career, or your life. You will come alive with supercharged wonder and curiosity, improving your leadership, performance, and overall enjoyment of life.

• Get unstuck -- break free from myths and barriers to unleash creativity.
• Tap into the hidden brainpower inside yourself and your company.
• Establish an ongoing system to nurture and harvest your team's best ideas.
• Avoid costly mistakes of flawed idea selection and measurement.
• Increase your ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Learn how to adapt more quickly and proactively to changes in the marketplace.
• Apply focused creativity to specific business problems of all sizes and shapes

In This Presentation You Will See

• Linkner discuss the 2008 rececession (in minute 3)

• Linkner discuss disruptive creativity (in minute 4)

• Linkner bemoan the decrease in U.S. creativity (in minute 9)

• Why creativity is 85% nurture, not nature (in minute 14)

• The reasons why creativity is often stifled in business (in minute 15)

• Why curiosity is the building block of creativity (in minute 20)

• How the "Five Whys" unlock creativity (in minute 22)

• Linkner recounting sending a package to UPS using FedEx (in minute 26)

• A brainstorming technique called "The Opposite" (in minute 30)

• Why we cut the ends off the meatloaf (in minute 36)

• How to overcome imaginary barriers (in minute 37)

• How groupthink can hurt innovation (in minute 42)

• Rolestorming as a discussion technique (in minute 43)

• and more

About the Speaker