Listening: Stephen Gate's Crazy One's Podcast
Stephen Gates has been one of my favorite podcasts for over a year now, in terms of creative leadership and the design process. His matter-of-fact style gives it his expert opinion a raw and real, getting to the heart of the point every time.
About the Podcast
Creatives have the opportunity to affect businesses in a way we haven't seen since the Industrial Revolution. The Crazy One helps you learn how to weave together all of the methodologies, strategies, information, and tools into a comprehensive strategy for elevating the business impact of design within your company. The diverse episodes will give you actionable insights to help you be more creative, become a better leader, create more innovative work, build better relationships with your clients, grow a stronger career and more. Host and award-winning creative director Stephen Gates shares what he learned from leading global in-house and agency creative teams, building multiple Fortune 100 brands, and working with some the world's most innovative companies like Apple, Google, and Adobe.
So many amazing episodes, I'm on my second round of listening because of all the good tid-bits!
Episode 60: Understanding the power and potential of Design Thinking.
This episode helped to clear up some concepts for me... Design Thinking is definitely a popular methodology and successfully using it with your team is about a lot more than just understanding the steps. In this episode, he looks at a number of things that will help you understand the value and potential of Design Thinking through things like how it instantly empower your team, how it allows you to bring everyone into the process in an inclusive way, how it lets you evaluate the leadership potential of your team and partners, change the thinking of your company and much more. I highly recommend you check out this podcast... so good.
