Justin, i'd like to ask you the same questions i ask everyone who joins me. Are you up for that? All right. Let's do it. If you were to capture the best communication advice you ever received as a five to seven word presentation slide title, what would it be? I would say, better to be liked than right. Oh, ok, tell me more about this. Why did you say it'sbetter to be liked? So this advice came to me from my phd Adviser, adam grant,. And this advice was given specifically in the context of academic job talks. In research, like so many other areas of business and life, there are no right, perfectly
“To be creative, ideas must be both novel and useful. That’s the definition that we use in creativity research,” says Justin Berg, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business. But, he warns: “Novel ideas are often not very useful and useful ideas are often not very novel.”
In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Berg sits down with lecturer and podcast host Matt Abrahams to share lessons from his work on creativity, which has included conducting experiments with both movie directors and circus performers.
“The takeaway is that we should never stop being a creator. As managers and executives climb up the organizational ladder, they may benefit from staying involved in the creative R&D side of things, rather than just spend time having ideas pitched to them.”
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