Where's the Leader Who's Willing to Put Out a Ton of Bad Ideas?

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Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos are exceptional leaders, but they're the exception, not the rule. Steve Jobs can have a meeting with his designer every day unlike every other major CEO who throws out doopie, dopey ideas because he's Steve Jobs. And Jeff Bezos has this habit, but I'm not Jeff Bezos. I'm not Robin Williams. I've got to start attending two ideas, right? That's where Steve Jobs is different.

Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn are the authors of, Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters, which is available on October 25th.

Jeremy is the Director of Executive Education at Stanford d.school and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford's School of Engineering. He is the co-host of the d.school’s widely popular program “Stanford’s Masters of Creativity.”

Perry is a co-founding member of Stanford's d.school faculty. He is an Adjunct Professor and Director of Executive Education at Stanford d.school. He has served as COO of Patagonia and as CEO of Timbuk2.

Learn more at ideaflow.design.