PureReinvention Podcast Episode 028

Dan Gilmartin, executive director and CEO of the Michigan Municipal League, talks to Mike Bills about how the City of Detroit is creating a new, better reality and how organizations can do the same.

 

Episode 28 - Dan Gilmartin Promo

QUOTE IT:

“When it comes to innovation...we have a tendency to innovate when we’re in crisis, and we innovate at the edges of our own competencies.” (2:25)

“Detroit is beginning to embrace its grittiness, and embrace the fact that it is kind of the ultimate DIY city right now.” (10:25)

“Not everyone has to get into a Detroit situation before they change.” (11:43)

 

DIG IN:

 

At 11:10 Mike asks Dan how association leaders can give people permission to innovate and he offers some really good advice.

Listen in at 17:20 as Dan tells people visiting Detroit to “find the energy” and highlights some of the compelling grassroots movements that are happening in the city.

 

TAKEAWAYS:

1 - Detroit is more of a organic bottom up example of reinvention, not process and top down approach.  This process is wholly transferable to other communities.

2  - Detroit’s struggle with changing times may be more public than others, but it is not unique. Many individuals and organizations are in the same spot and need to rally together to embrace the new.

3 - A crisis isn’t the only time to be seeking change. It’s okay to create a little chaos in the face of stability.

4 - Employees have to share the vision and own their part of it if in order to be successful.
5 - When you move out of your comfort zone and into different spaces, you think differently and bring something new to the table.

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