112: Nilofer Merchant | Make a Difference from Anywhere in the Hierarchy


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Oct 24 2018 46 mins   4

Nilofer Merchant (@nilofer) is one of the world's top-ranked business thinkers, an innovation expert, and the author of The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World.


What We Discuss with Nilofer Merchant:



  • How bias -- from others as well as ourselves -- works to stifle innovation and the spread of good ideas.

  • The process by which ideas are created and spread and how we can exercise our own abilities to make our ideas heard -- even if we're at the bottom of the totem pole.

  • Why we conform to expectations that were largely created decades ago and don't really have a place in the modern workforce.

  • Where "left-field" ideas often originate and why they're often missed.

  • What we can do to make the generation and capture of ideas more inclusive.

  • And much more...


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