James Taylor started his career managing high profile rock stars and is now an in-demand keynote speaker and internationally recognized leader in business creativity and innovation. For over 20 years, he has been advising CEO’s, entrepreneurs, educators, governments, leaders, writers and rockstars on how to build innovative organizations, unlock creative potential, and increase productivity.
Show Notes
Entrepreneurship and creativity go hand in hand. Not only does it take number-crunching skills and practicality important, one has to be creative in order to be successful.
James, who started out as a musician, shared great insight about creativity on this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast. This is what he travels the world to do, so what better person to look at this topic.
Creativity as a Team Sport
Creativity is a team sport which not only involve someone with a microphone in their hand or the CEO on the front cover of the magazine.
We are all born with unlimited creative potential. As we get older, it gets knock over because of societal rules.
In order to unlock creativity, see those rules as sign post but be willing to challenge them. To support his point about humans being creative vessels, James made mention of Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, Big Magic. Have a read if you can.
This episode is for you if you are struggling with too many creative ideas. James zoned in on how we can make a decision on which ones to keep and what to thrash. For example, making a decision to decipher which creative idea is valid is to examine it based on your top 5 values.
TOP TIP:
Instead of having mission statements into mission questions. What could I do today to become number 1?
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