Mon, 27 July 2015
Josh Linkner’s most recent New York Times best-selling book (he currently has two), The Road to Reinvention, explores the idea that one of the most common—and easily avoidable— reasons communities, organizations and individuals fall is because they fail to reinvent. This episode is the first part of a two-part conversation that Mike Bills had with tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist, keynote speaker and Detroit native Josh Linkner. In this segment, Josh talks about the trouble with resting on prior successes rather than driving purposeful transformation and the grit of Detroit that has lessons for us all. QUOTE IT “To be an effective leader today, that rote memorization, follow-the-rule-book is just completely inadequate. What we need today is to train people to be creative problem solvers.” (11:23) “If we can encourage courage, recognize that if we want great big breakthrough ideas we have to have a lot of bad ideas along the way to get there. ” (18:35) DIG IN Josh says reinvention is a very misunderstood word. Hear his theory about what reinvention really means around the 14:00 mark. TAKEAWAYS 2 - The largest natural resource in your organization is human imagination. 3 - Find new points of differentiation by using the information that everyone has and figuring out how to position your organization as a unique solution. 4 - Build a culture that supports creative risk-taking. 5 - Failure is a part of the process and should be learned from instead of punished. |