Leslie Grandy - Creative Velocity: A Roadmap for Leaders ...

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Full episodes available at www.peoplenottitles.comLeslie Grandy is a CEO advisor, and product executive who guides companies, teams, and business leaders to expand their creative capacity to innovate for customers, accelerate growth, transform operations, and maintain relevance in a fast-changing world. From a successful career in the film industry in Los Angeles as a member of the Directors Guild of America to becoming an executive at iconic brands such as Amazon, Discovery, T-Mobile, Best Buy, and Apple, Leslie has built and led teams from the ground up and pioneered multiple first-to-market products, including co-authoring a patent for the earliest digital media subscription services that Intel acquired. In multiple corporate roles, She has guided internal innovation teams as an IDEO-trained leader in Design Thinking.Leslie currently coaches and mentors leaders through the advisory firm she founded, The Product Guild, the University of Michigan College of Engineering's Center for Entrepreneurship, and the University of Washington Foster School of Business. Leslie co-created and serves as the Lead Executive in Residence in the Product Management Leadership Accelerator of the Foster School's Executive Education program.Introduction to the Podcast (00:00:00)Discussion of Leslie's Book (00:01:40)Book Structure and Interviews (00:03:07Common Threads Among Interviewees (00:05:08)Attributes for Creative Velocity (00:06:15)Equanimity and Emotional Control (00:08:15)Personal Story on Equanimity (00:10:12)MacGyver as a Creative Metaphor (00:12:29)Constraints as Catalysts for Creativity (00:15:05)Combining Existing Ideas (00:17:16)AI as a Creative Catalyst (00:19:26)Understanding Customers Through AI (00:22:39)The Value of Analogies (00:23:20)Creative Bravery (00:27:01)Embracing Mistakes (00:32:11)Understanding Flow State (00:34:54)The Role of Sleep (00:37:44)The Power of Play (00:42:12)The Importance of Storytelling (00:45:22)Marinating Ideas (00:45:36)Value of Ideas (00:47:01)Early Failure (00:48:15)Team Exercises in Creativity (00:49:34)Judgment and Creativity (00:50:14)AI in Problem Solving (00:51:10)Building Team Trust (00:53:40)Book Release Celebration (00:54:31)Impact of the Book (00:55:08)People, Not Titles podcast is hosted by Steve Kaempf and is dedicated to lifting up professionals in the real estate and business community. Our inspiration is to highlight success principles of our colleagues.Our Success Series covers principles of success to help your thrive!www.peoplenottitles.comIG - https://www.instagram.com/peoplenotti...FB - https://www.facebook.com/peoplenottitlesTwitter - https://twitter.com/sjkaempfSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1uu5kTv...

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