Episode 036 – Josh Linkner – Encourage Courage

Episode 036 – Josh Linkner – Encourage Courage

By on Jul 27, 2015 in Associations, Change, Detroit, Discovery Process, Education, Failure, Leadership, Learning Laboratory, Meetings, Passion, Podcast, Purposeful Disruption, Reinvention, Reinvention Laboratory, Risk, Strategic Planning, Sustainable, Vision |

Episode 36 Josh Linkner

Pure Reinvention Interview with Josh Linkner – July, 2015

 

 

Josh Linkner – Encourage Courage

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 podcast 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

“People want to extract the lessons [of Detroit]…people say ‘how can I apply that to my life?’” (8:09)

“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

At 9:28 Josh describes why Detroit is a learning laboratory.

Josh says reinvention is a very misunderstood word. Hear his theory about what reinvention really means around the 14:00 mark.

TAKEAWAYS
1 – The Detroit story is a very human experience, and it connects to your heart and to your gut leaving a lasting impression.

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.