David Cutler, founder and CEO of The Puzzler Company, facilitator of the leading immersive 'GAME of Innovation' talks about how gamifying innovation works, the many ways that innovation is not always what is seems to be, and why music and innovation naturally work together.
More about our guest:
David Cutler, facilitates the leading immersive "GAME of Innovation' where these powerful, team-based experiences have empowered business, arts, and education communities from around the globe to solve creative challenges while becoming better collaborators. He is also an award-winning, multi-genre musician and Yamaha Master Educator. Cutler is a Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina, where he teaches innovation and entrepreneurship, and a member of the Liberty Fellowship and Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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Episode Guide:
1:20 - What is Innovation?
3:08 - Extraordinary problem solving: process and gamification
5:40 - What is G.A.M.E?
8:01 - Article: six things kindergarten teachers know that most CEOs do not
9:43 - Being problem agnostic
1239 - 6 types of non-innovation
1339 - Not imitation
1423 - Not magic
1509 - Not anarchy
16:48 - "Not everything"
17:33 - Not a big a idea
20:35 - Bonus: not an industry - not therapy, and not easy
21:39 - Innovation: Shaping careers
22:15 - Book: The GAME of innovation
2429 - Classical music, Jazz, and Innovation: an intersection
3137 - Innovation and Diversity
3208 - Murder of George Floyd: becoming more inclusive
3412 - Advice to Innovators
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