The Eight Steps For Inventive Brilliance

Advertising Podcast with Mark Shekter

On this episode of the Duct Tape Advertising Podcast, I interview Mark Shekter. He is a Finest-Promoting Creator, Keynote Speaker, and unique thinker. He pioneered a brand new system of artistic considering that empowers Begin-Ups to Fortune 500 shoppers to construct strong and sustainable enterprises whereas reshaping company cultures for limitless innovation and progress. 

In his new e book: Think8: 8 Steps to Ignite Your Inventive Genius in Enterprise, Profession, & Life, Mark shares his confirmed technique for unlocking creativity beforehand solely accessible to his international Think8 shoppers.

Key Takeaway:

When people concentrate on their function and fervour, they will unlock their artistic power and obtain outstanding leads to numerous domains of life. Creativity isn’t restricted to inventive endeavors however may be utilized in enterprise contexts as properly. The Think8 methodology has 8 steps: function, message, tone, character, content material, construction, fashion, and influence, when adopted in sequence, results in optimum outcomes. Mark emphasizes that in corporations, consensus and alignment amongst group members with authenticity and transparency are essential for unlocking an organization’s true value and making a significant influence.

Questions I ask Mark Shekter:

• [01:42] In your subtitle: unlocking your artistic genius in enterprise, profession, and life. So are you suggesting that this can be a framework that you might apply should you had been making an attempt to advance your profession, or should you needed a greater life in addition to to develop a enterprise?
• [03:51] You introduce an idea of unlocking an organization’s true value. What do you imply by that?
• [05:19] Some folks might imagine that creativity is simply the artwork division answerable for branding or creating some slogan or jingle. However you’re actually making use of a brand new considering on the position of creativity, aren’t you?
• [07:27] Nearly every thing we do in enterprise takes some form of ingredient of creativity, doesn’t it?
• [09:08] The primary out of the 8 steps is function. That’s a really robust step for folks as a result of they sit round a room and say, what’s our function? Does all people agree on these 8 phrases?
• [17:31] The fourth step is character and unifying the corporate’s core values and beliefs. I believe the problem right here might be that possibly the founder has beliefs and values that aren’t essentially aligned with the remainder of the members of an organization. How do you form of rectify that?
• [21:10] So that you end up the steps with influence which I believe it’s fascinating as a result of you possibly can by no means obtain influence with out the earlier 7 steps, proper?

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