Living On The Edge of Chaos

157: Ideaflow with Jeremy Utley

Episode Summary

In this episode, I speak with Jeremy Utley. Jeremy is the Director of Executive Education at the d.school, and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s School of Engineering, where he has earned multiple “favorite professor” distinctions from graduate programs. He holds a BBA with Honors in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin (2005) and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (2009). He co-leads the d.school’s Executive Education programs, and co-teaches two celebrated courses at Stanford, Leading Disruptive Innovation (d.leadership) and LaunchPad, which focus on creating real-world impact with the tools of design & innovation. He is also on the teaching teams of d.org, an organizational design course, and Transformative Design, a course that turns the tools of design onto graduate students’ lives. One of the most prodigious collaborators at the d.school, Jeremy has taught alongside the likes of Lecrae, Dan Ariely, Laszlo Bock, and Greg McKeown. And he recently published an INCREDIBLE book Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters

Episode Notes

TOPICS WE EXPLORE

  1. Who is Jeremy Utley and how did he find his way to education from business work around the globe?
  2. Young people need permission to not know
  3. Not asking a young person what they want to be when they grow
  4. The Einstellung effect where we cease to search when we think we have a plausible first answer AND how Ideaflow works to push through this issue of thinking.
  5. Connection of creativity and an arm splint
  6. We are not practicing what we are saying we are saying in education? How do we do this type of work of Ideaflow and the space for it?
  7. What do we mean by creativity?
  8. Don't always evaluate. Simple challenge going, "Oh good! and fill in with a response" Start with a gift of good and the try a gift of bad.
  9. What if we couldn't do, then what would we do? Repeat this process for your first new idea to work to get past our first idea.
  10. Power of framing a prompt or challenge where it is more on the approach vs. the answer.
  11. "Curiosity can pull you where discipline and willpower would otherwise have to push"

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RESOURCE MENTIONED IN SHOW

Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters