SuperCreativity Podcast with James Taylor | Creativity, Innovation and Inspiring Ideas

Fashion Industry’s Impact On Climate Change I'm James Taylor and you're listening to the super creativity podcast a show dedicated to inspiring creative minds like yours. This month witness cop 26 in Glasgow a summit that brings the world together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement, and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. To mark the occasion, we decided to re...

Animal Ethics Tony Milligan is an author and academic whose main research area is ethics with a particular focus upon otherness are the humans are the creatures are the places, and how the shift between here and there alters our sense of what matters. In addition to his books on space ethics , including the ethics of space exploration, and nobody owns the moon, his other writings have looked at th...

How To Thrive At Work I'm James Taylor and you're listening to the SuperCreativity podcast a show dedicated to inspiring creative minds like yours. You probably don't realise this but every working day you replay and reenact complex dynamics and relationships from your past. Whether it's confusing an authority figure with a parent, avoiding conflict because of a past squabble with siblings, or suf...

Embracing Digital Disruption Now, we're all told we need to embrace digital disruption to thrive in the 21st century. But how can legacy companies and new startups blend both digital and traditional business functions to achieve long-term competitive advantage? That's the question my guest today set out to solve in his new book, The brains and brawn company , venture capitalist and Stanford Gradua...

Ethical Vegan This week sees the start of COP26 in Glasgow, a summit that brings the world together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. To mark the occasion we decided to record a special series of the SuperCreativity podcast that will focus on sustainability and climate change. For this series I’ll be joined by a co-host...

The Travel Writing Tribe Travel can be one of the greatest things you can do to spark your creativity and curiosity. I spent much of the Pandemic lockdown reading books about countries that I wanted to visit when the world opened up again. That’s how I discovered today’s guest. Tim Hannigan is a writer and academic, and the author of several narrative history books, including 'A Brief History of I...

Innovative Cities I’m James Taylor and you’re listening to the SuperCreativity Podcast, a show dedicated to inspiring creative minds like yours. Professor Dan Breznitz is known worldwide as an expert on rapid-innovation-based industries and their globalization, as well as for his pioneering research on the distributional impact of innovation policies. He is a University Professor and Munk Chair of...

Make Your Big Ideas Irresistible You have a terrific idea—an amazing product, an incomparable service, a bulletproof business model—and you know it is so powerful that it could change a life, a market, or even the world. There’s just one problem: others can’t or don’t see its power… yet. That's what my guest on today's show can help you with.  Tamsen Webster has spent the last twenty years helping...

Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative? ? Today, I want to talk to you about whether machines can be creative. NEWS & DEALS! Free Course! FULL TRANSCRIPT Hi, it's James Taylor, keynote speaker and founder of SuperCreativityU. Today, I want to talk to you about whether machines can be creative. Turing test Now have you heard of the Turing test ? This is a test invented by Alan Turing made famo...

The Rise Of Problem Solving Skills ? Hi, it's James Taylor here to speak on creativity, innovation and artificial intelligence. And today, I want to talk to you about the rise of problem-solving skills. NEWS & DEALS! Free Course! FULL TRANSCRIPT Hi, it's James Taylor, keynote speaker and founder of SuperCreativityU. Problem-Solving Skills It's James Taylor here. I saw a stat the other day from...

Family Businesses To Take Advantage Of The New Roaring 2020s ? Today I want to talk to you about why I believe that family businesses are uniquely positioned to take advantage of the new roaring 2020s. NEWS & DEALS! Free Course! FULL TRANSCRIPT Hi, it's James Taylor, keynote speaker and founder of SuperCreativityU. Golden Age For Family Businesses The Roaring 2020s Hi there, it's James Taylor,...

Developing A Creative Mindset My guest today believes that it is time to rethink the way we make innovation happen. He argues that innovation doesn’t come from an algorithm; it comes from the personal creativity of individuals. And creativity is not a gift for the chosen few—it is a process that can be learned. Jeff DeGraff is the Professor of Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Bus...

Upskill Your Workforce: Building A Culture Of Curiosity ? Today I want to talk to you about how to upskill your workforce. NEWS & DEALS! Free Course! FULL TRANSCRIPT Hi, it's James Taylor, keynote speaker and founder of SuperCreativityU. -How To Upskill Your Workforce Workforce  Now, I was having a conversation the other day with a senior leader from an organization. And we were just talking a...

Making Good Decisions For Your Business Based On Intuition. Today I want to talk to you about why you should go with your gut feeling more often when making important decisions. NEWS & DEALS! Free Course! FULL TRANSCRIPT Hi, it's James Taylor, keynote speaker and founder of SuperCreativityU. Heuristics And Decision Making The other day, I was having a conversation with Gerd Gigerenzer, as part...

Claiming Your Creative Power Through Entrepreneurship When Marcus Whitney moved to Nashville in 2000, he was a college dropout with a one-year-old and a baby on the way. He waited tables and lived in a week-to-week efficiency hotel. From the outside, Marcus looked like the furthest thing from a budding entrepreneur. But inside, he knew entrepreneurship was his path to a better life. Two decades la...

A Creative Culture To Attract And Retain The Best Talent to Your Company ? Today, I want to talk to you about how to win the global competition for talent in your organization. NEWS & DEALS! Free Course! FULL TRANSCRIPT Attract And Retain The Best Talent to Your Company Hi, it's James Taylor, keynote speaker and founder of SuperCreativityU. I was having a conversation with a client the other d...

Seeing Around Corners Paradigm shifts in business, known as inflection points, can either create new opportunities or present new threats. Those leaders who can “see around corners” and spot these inflection points before they happen, can position themselves for success. Columbia Business School professor and innovation keynote speaker Rita McGrath’s latest book ‘Seeing Around Corners” shows how y...

Where Do Good Ideas Come From ? Today, I want to talk to you about where do ideas come from. NEWS & DEALS! Free Course! FULL TRANSCRIPT Hi, it's James Taylor, keynote speaker and founder of SuperCreativityU. Today, I want to talk to you about where do ideas come from. - Where Do Good Ideas Come From Where Do Good Ideas Come From? The philosopher John Locke once said that all ideas come from se...

Heuristics In Judgment And Decision-Making Numbers don’t lie - but they often mislead us. From health risk to financial decisions, it can be hard to understand statistics because they are often presented to us by ‘experts’ who misinterpret the data. In his book Risk Savvy, Professor Gerd Gigerenzer shows us all how we can make better decisions by becoming better-informed citizens and able to judge...

Increase Creativity Using “Mise En Place” ? I want to talk to you about how you can design your workplace in order to help you do your most creative work. NEWS & DEALS! Free Course! FULL TRANSCRIPT Hey there, it's James Taylor here, keynote speaker on creativity and innovation and the founder of SuperCreativityU today, I want to talk to you about how you can design your workplace in order to h...

The Difference Between Creativity And Innovation   Instead of shooting for a $10 billion IPO or a Nobel Prize, the most prolific innovators focus instead on Big Little Breakthroughs – small creative acts that unlock massive rewards over time. By building a daily habit of creativity, organizations not only enjoy a high volume of small wins, but the daily practice of micro-innovations is the fa...

Brainstorming Technique Using Random Words ? I want to share with you a very simple yet powerful technique for improving your brainstorming sessions. NEWS & DEALS! Free Course! FULL TRANSCRIPT Hey there, it's James Taylor here, keynote speaker on creativity and innovation and the founder of SuperCreativityU today, I want to share with you a very simple yet powerful technique for improving your...

Creativity And Peak Performance What does it take to accomplish the impossible? What does it take to shatter our limitations, exceed our expectations, and turn our biggest dreams into our most recent achievements? These are the questions that our guest today has sought to answer in his new book The Art of the Impossible : A Peak Performance Primer. Steven Kotler is a New York Times-bestselling aut...

The Future Of Hybrid Workplace And Collaboration Spaces ? Hi, James Taylor here keynote speaker on creativity, innovation on artificial intelligence, and the founder of SuperCreativityU. today, I want to talk to you about the future of the hybrid workplace, collaboration spaces, and what we call the third place for improving team creativity and innovation NEWS & DEALS! Free Course! FULL TRANSC...

The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity When in their lives do artists produce their greatest creative work? By examining the careers of great painters, poets, novelists, and movie directors my guest today offers a profound new understanding of creativity. Using a wide range of evidence, Professor David Galenson shows in his book ‘Old Masters and Young Geniuses’ that there are actually two fund...