Creative Confidence Podcast
IDEO’s Creative Confidence Podcast shares candid conversations with creative leaders, changemakers, and innovators navigating today’s most pressing challenges. Through real-world stories and insights, we explore how to lead with creativity, build resilient teams, and drive innovation. Grounded in IDEO’s 40 years of expertise in design thinking and innovation, each episode offers inspiration and practical tools for audacious leaders at every stage of their careers. Hosted by Mina Seetharaman, Head of New Ventures at IDEO, the podcast brings a human-centered lens to the complexities of making more courageous futures.
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Seth Godin on Solving the Right Problems
When a problem won't move, the instinct is to push harder. To spend more time, put in more effort, gather more people. But some problems can’t be powered through. Think of a knot: pull harder and it only tightens. Start by stepping back to see how it got tangled in the first place and understanding the larger system the problem lives in.
Join us for a conversation with Seth Godin, author of 21 bestselling books and one of the most original voices on creativity and change. His new book, The Knot, turns this idea into a clear, practical approach: discern the problems you can solve from the situations you can't, look at the whole system holding things in place, and put your energy where it can actually move something.
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