Podcast appearances and mentions of Matthew E May

Recently I sat down with Matthew E. May and Pablo Dominguez to talk about their new book What a Unicorn Knows: How Leading Entrepreneurs Use Lean Principles to Drive Sustainable Growth. In the book – and our interview – Matt and Pablo highlight key principles about lean, strategy development, and continuous improvement – and how to apply them to scale-up businesses no matter what stage of growth they are in. I'm excited to celebrate the book's recent release a few weeks ago and dive into some of its core concepts, what inspired them to write it, and some of the key lessons they've learned through their collaboration. Our interview questions: (4:12) What inspired the two of you to write a book together and what problem were you trying to solve? (6:50) Let's unpack some of the book's title. Most people are familiar with a unicorn as a mythical horned horse creature fabled to be real but never seen. What does this mean in a business context? (9:00) What is a Scale Up? (11:23) You talk about these four different forces that work against any object in motion, including a rapidly growing company: drag, inertia, friction, and waste. (11:49) What is the connection between scale ups and Formula One cars? (17:08) The model for overcoming these different forces – the Unicorn Model. (25:29) Matt - you worked with Toyota at the University of Toyota for many years. What is one important concept that you learned from your time that has influenced your thinking and your approach with helping your clients? (27:58) Pablo – what is something you've had to unlearn or shift for your own leadership approach to be more effective as you've gone through your own learning journey? (29:11) What is something you've learned with a new perspective through the process of writing this book together? (31:46) What is a question that you haven't, or are not usually asked about the book? What is that question? And what's your answer?

New book, available now! For links, video, transcript, and more visit the episode page  Joining us for Episode #469 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast are Matt May and Pablo Dominguez, the authors of the new book What a Unicorn Knows: How Leading Entrepreneurs Use Lean Principles to Drive Sustainable Growth. It's available now! Matt has been before, in episodes 67 and 103… and he was my guest for episode 39 of My Favorite Mistake. Pablo Dominguez is an Operating Partner at Insight Partners, a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software ScaleUp companies that drive transformative change in their industries. Pablo has spent his entire career as a go-to-market and sales-focused operator, working in consulting, public companies, startups, and, most recently, ScaleUps. The application of lean principles has figured centrally in driving sustainable growth in each of these ventures. Matthew E. May leads the Lean ScaleUp program at Insight Partners, with Pablo.  His mastery of lean principles and methodologies comes from spending nearly a decade inside the Toyota organization, where he played an integral part in launching the University of Toyota, a corporate university dedicated to teaching, preserving, and expanding the Toyota Way. Previously the author of many great books, including The Elegant Solution and, most recently, Winning the Brain Game. In this episode, we discuss their new book and how they are both influenced by Toyota and broader Lean thinking, including the Lean Startup methodology — and we discuss the questions and topics listed below: Questions, Notes, and highlights: Pablo, since this is your first time here, it would be great to hear your “Lean origin story” Helping people cope with the discovery of waste and opportunities to improve? Feeling bad about it before moving forward? Congratulations on the release of the book… in startup circles, what's meant by the term “Unicorn”? What's a ScaleUp compared to a startup? What is product-market fit? An example? Risk of trying to scale prematurely? One of the core themes in your model is “Constant experimentation”  Investors – do they want to hear about “constant experimentation”? Do they want certainty? How to prevent Big Company Syndrome (a.k.a., Big Company Disease)? What is meant by “Lean ScaleUp”? How do you react when you hear this aversion to “process” in agile or startup circles, as if process means being inflexible? What's a “lean kaizen sprint”? Applying this to the sales process? Lessons Toyota about “building team spirit”? Building teamwork across silos? The podcast is sponsored by Stiles Associates, now in its 30th year of business. They are the go-to Lean recruiting firm serving the manufacturing, private equity, and healthcare industries. Learn more. This podcast is part of the #LeanCommunicators network. 

Matthew E. May and Pablo Dominguez co-wrote "What A Unicorn Knows" and explain there is nothing random about becoming a unicorn. Growth-focused companies think about small steps, make experimentation part of the job, and most importantly, put the time and commitment into forming a strategy.  May and Dominguez are operators at Insight Partners. They joined forces to create a light book that's dense in value and detail. The book strikes the balance between something easy-to-consume but thorough and detailed enough to take your executive team through to put your company on a growth trajectory.  They discuss why strategy is vital to growth, every step you can take to build a strategy, and why even well-established companies skip this part due to their inaccurate belief it limits flexibility or is a waste of time. why companies resist focusing on "where to play" but why they can't grow without it.  how lack of experimentation kills your company Check out the shows notes, buy the book, and connect with Dominguez and May: https://justinkbrady.com/matthew-may-pablo-dominguez 

In some of my leadership keynotes and workshops, I point out how one way to foster a sense of cohesion and community among your employees is to make time to celebrate milestones. What's important here is not to just have a party where people can feel a sense of completion, but that we also use this moment to highlight the journey we've been on and what we've accomplished on this journey. It's in that spirit that I wanted to do something special to celebrate the release of the 100th episode of my podcast “Leadership Biz Cafe”. And in keeping with what I share with leaders on how to best utilize the attainment of key milestones, I wanted to use this episode as an opportunity to look back at the past 99 episodes and first select my 10 favourite guests I've spoken with (to date). And then the trickier part - picking one key insight that's not only worth a second listen, but which is both powerful and timely for helping leaders address the challenges they face today. Now I have to be honest that I had to omit two guests who'd otherwise make my shortlist as I just featured them in the recent episode “My Favourite Guest Moments and Insights From 2021” and as such, I thought it'd be better to feature other guests in their place. Over the course of this 100th episode retrospective, you'll hear: Guy Kawasaki on why leaders should focus on enchanting employees instead of influencing them.Doug Conant on why leaders need to foster a sense of community and purpose.Liz Wiseman on why some leaders bring out the best in others while other leaders drain the motivation out from their team.Matthew E. May on why “intelligent” constraints are needed to fuel creativity.Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson on how leaders can make sure employees really understand what they want from them.Whitney Johnson on why constraints are beneficial when facing disruption.Tim Sanders on why our attention is getting narrower and what leaders need to do to overcome it to rally their employees around a common vision or goal.Dr. Timothy Clark on why many organizations struggle with creating inclusive workplaces and how to overcome it.Sally Helgesen on what needs to be done to get more women into leadership development pipelines.Stephen MR Covey on why addressing intent is critical to fostering trust in your leadership. Not to mention getting to hear the story behind why I started my popular leadership podcast ... and the key role Guy Kawasaki played in bringing this show to life. Going back to listen to the past conversations was such a delight and so informative about what leaders need to do to succeed. And without question, this retrospective episode provides powerful and timely insights that will help you succeed in your leadership by empowering your employees to do their best work. This is definitely one episode you're going to want to make time to listen to - and be prepared to take some notes as these guests really provide a lot of food for thought. My thanks to them and to all my guests I've had on my show over the past 99 episodes. Here's looking ahead to the future and that next big milestone of reaching 200 episodes. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3VmC7Zwp1po89nl12q8l0m Noteworthy links: Here are links to listen to the full episodes of the guests I featured in this retrospective episode: How The Power Of Enchantment Can Help Us Succeed | Guy KawasakiHow Successful Leaders Maintain Focus In A Distracted World | Doug ConantHow Leaders Grow Employee Intelligence To Drive Success | Liz WisemanHow Leaders Can Encourage Creativity And Innovation | Matthew E. MayWhy Your Employees Don't Understand You | Heidi Grant HalvorsonUsing Disruptive Innovation To Drive Growth | Whitney JohnsonWhy Bizlove Is Critical For Today's Leadership | Tim SandersHow Psychological Safety Fuels Growth & Innovation | Dr Timothy ClarkHow Women Hold Back Their Leadership Success | Sally HelgesenThe Power of Trust in Leadership | Stephen M.R. Covey

In some of my leadership keynotes and workshops, I point out how one way to foster a sense of cohesion and community among your employees is to make time to celebrate milestones. What's important here is not to just have a party where people can feel a sense of completion, but that we also use this moment to highlight the journey we've been on and what we've accomplished on this journey. It's in that spirit that I wanted to do something special to celebrate the release of the 100th episode of my podcast “Leadership Biz Cafe”. And in keeping with what I share with leaders on how to best utilize the attainment of key milestones, I wanted to use this episode as an opportunity to look back at the past 99 episodes and first select my 10 favourite guests I've spoken with (to date). And then the trickier part - picking one key insight that's not only worth a second listen, but which is both powerful and timely for helping leaders address the challenges they face today. Now I have to be honest that I had to omit two guests who'd otherwise make my shortlist as I just featured them in the recent episode “My Favourite Guest Moments and Insights From 2021” and as such, I thought it'd be better to feature other guests in their place. Over the course of this 100th episode retrospective, you'll hear: Guy Kawasaki on why leaders should focus on enchanting employees instead of influencing them.Doug Conant on why leaders need to foster a sense of community and purpose.Liz Wiseman on why some leaders bring out the best in others while other leaders drain the motivation out from their team.Matthew E. May on why “intelligent” constraints are needed to fuel creativity.Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson on how leaders can make sure employees really understand what they want from them.Whitney Johnson on why constraints are beneficial when facing disruption.Tim Sanders on why our attention is getting narrower and what leaders need to do to overcome it to rally their employees around a common vision or goal.Dr. Timothy Clark on why many organizations struggle with creating inclusive workplaces and how to overcome it.Sally Helgesen on what needs to be done to get more women into leadership development pipelines.Stephen MR Covey on why addressing intent is critical to fostering trust in your leadership. Not to mention getting to hear the story behind why I started my popular leadership podcast ... and the key role Guy Kawasaki played in bringing this show to life. Going back to listen to the past conversations was such a delight and so informative about what leaders need to do to succeed. And without question, this retrospective episode provides powerful and timely insights that will help you succeed in your leadership by empowering your employees to do their best work. This is definitely one episode you're going to want to make time to listen to - and be prepared to take some notes as these guests really provide a lot of food for thought. My thanks to them and to all my guests I've had on my show over the past 99 episodes. Here's looking ahead to the future and that next big milestone of reaching 200 episodes. Noteworthy links: Here are links to listen to the full episodes of the guests I featured in this retrospective episode: How The Power Of Enchantment Can Help Us Succeed | Guy KawasakiHow Successful Leaders Maintain Focus In A Distracted World | Doug ConantHow Leaders Grow Employee Intelligence To Drive Success | Liz WisemanHow Leaders Can Encourage Creativity And Innovation | Matthew E. MayWhy Your Employees Don't Understand You | Heidi Grant HalvorsonUsing Disruptive Innovation To Drive Growth | Whitney JohnsonWhy Bizlove Is Critical For Today's Leadership | Tim SandersHow Psychological Safety Fuels Growth & Innovation | Dr Timothy ClarkHow Women Hold Back Their Leadership Success | Sally HelgesenThe Power of Trust in Leadership | Stephen M.R. Covey

Dalam eksplorasi pemikiran tentang mengapa peristiwa, produk, dan orang tertentu menarik perhatian dan imajinasi kita, Matthew E. May meneliti elemen yang sulit dipahami di balik begitu banyak terobosan inovatif di berbagai bidang mulai dari fisika dan pemasaran hingga desain dan budaya populer. Menggabungkan kesederhanaan yang tidak biasa dan kekuatan yang mengejutkan, keanggunan dicirikan oleh empat elemen kunci — Symetry - Seduction - Substraction - Sustainability.

Multi-best-selling author, former University of Toyota instructor, chief strategy at Stratechia Show notes: https://www.markgraban.com/mistake39 My guest for Episode #39 is my friend Matt May, he's a multi-best-selling author and he's Chief Strategist with his firm Stratechia. I've known Matt for a long time as a former University of Toyota educator, a Wharton graduate, and an amazing author. I've interviewed him many times before. I didn't know that he was formerly a theatre and television actor (including a stint on a soap opera — I don't have video clips of that). Today, we talk about a few of his favorite mistakes: Not taking the traditional high-paying job after completing his MBA Leaving New York City for Los Angeles in the pursuit of his acting career Matt and I also talk about mistakes more generally — when are they “happy mistakes?” Were there any acting gigs that were mistakes? How should we think about mistakes, as individuals and as organizations? This podcast is part of the Lean Communicators network -- check it out! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/support

Amy Wang is a designer and director with over a decade of experience working on user experience design, digital product design, brand identity, and the design strategy for video, web, and mobile products. Amy is currently working as a director at Amy Wang Design and previously worked in companies like - Easelly, Netflix, MPC, Apple, Focus features, Ferro Concrete, and many more. In this episode of Nodes of Design, Amy had shared great insights on Visual Design and how to serve the needs of both the user and the client along with that we also discussed the effective way to settle on choices of visual preferences and how to overcome a difficulty in communicating ideas, In the latter part we spoke on various ways in which creatives can improve their visual skills like the choice of color, theme, perspectives, etc. Takeaways - What is the visual design? How to overcome the difficulty of communicating ideas and Improving visual skills. Tales from Designers around the world - https://medium.com/design-warp Amy Wang recommends books. In Pursuit of Elegance - Matthew E. May UX Strategy - Jaime Levy Start With Why - Simon Sinek Thank you for listening to this episode of Nodes of Design. We hope you enjoy the Nodes of Design Podcast on your favorite podcast platforms- Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Google Podcasts. If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and rate us and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all, as knowledge shouldn't hide behind paywalls. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

I follow Matt since years. he has a couple of great books out, his latest one possibly being the top pick. It is called "Winning the brain Game". In "Winning the brain Game", Matt explains 7 fundamental flaws of the brain which hold us back from being the best problem solvers we could be. He describes how he discovered them, gives explanations from the fields of psychology and neuro science and finally gives hints on fixes for these flaws.  I discovered Matt by means of a different book he wrote quite a couple of years ago. The book was called "The laws of subtraction" in which he gave structure on how to make things simpler and how to address that problem. At the time I headed a product which was really a complicated mess and the book helped me think through several of the problems I had at the time and I have it in find memories.  Matt comes up with the following categories of flaws:  "Misleading", which contains the flaws of Leaping (jumping to the first best, shallow solution), Fixation (being stuck on the first best idea) and Overthinking (not getting into a state of delivery at all. Then there is Mediocre with Satisficing (giving in to a half baked solution and not pulling through) and Downgrading (no, it's not so important to hang in and we didn't mean to reach that level at all) And finally there is Mindless with the flaws "not invented here" (if it's not my idea, I won't listen) and Self-Censoring (It's my idea, it can't be good).   So, again: Misleading Leaping Fixation Overthinking Mediocre Satisficing Downgrading Mindless Not Invented Here Self-Censoring Also, expect a definition of Strategy and a little gossip on how one of the greats, Roger L. Martin, thinks on Strategy. Also really useful for me was a description of the value of frameworks as a way of describing ways to work with tools in a non sequential, non linear way and still feel comfortable and having a feeling of progress in highly abstract knowledge work. Another Gem for me was the framing of "assumptions" as "What has to be true? Given our strategy, what has to be true in our industry for it to work out? What has to be true for our org structure? What has to be true about what our customer really values? What about our cost? And what has to be true about our capabilities? Answering that questions opens a space right between the questions of "What is true?" and "What might be true" and help us thinking much more open about these issues. Show Notes "True Strategy os not about a plan, it is not about analysis. True strategy s about choice making." "There’s a lot of talk about thinking outside of the box, And I’m here to tell you there’s an awful lot of space inside of the box, if we think about the box in the right way." "When people say „culture eats strategy for lunch, what they’re basically talking about is when you march out a plan of action without having the buy-in or the input of those being in some sort responsible for deploying that strategy, the Status quo will defeat that plan.“ "(Culture)  does not eat for breakfast a great set of winning choices that answer - “what’s our winning aspiration?“, - "where will we play?“, - "how will we win?“,- "what capabilities do we need?“ and- "What systems are required?“ "The brain works very efficiently if there's some sort of limit. But you make that limit smart and intelligent. Just enough so that there's guidance but not prescription." Matt's Mantra  "What appears to be the problem, isn't. What appears to be the solution, isn't. What appears to be impossible, isn't" "I think the key to able to think differently is to be able to reframe problems" "They (Toyota) are a very innovative company. They implement close to a million ideas per year, all across the organization." On Lean in the Toyota Way "A lot of what we see on the surface as Lean, what really drives it (and can't be seen) is creativity. To have someone who puts on a windshield improve that work. And that's something that took me 4 years to understand." "One of the training programs was called "Jobs Methods Training". And they introduced the concept of continuous improvement: Little ideas, implemented as quickly as possible as near to the frontline as you possibly can. It was aimed at the supervisor level. Among those was a guy called Deming."   "Until this day, you will not find a Lean Thinking program at Toyota. You will find Toyota Business Process, before that it was PDCA." "I often get the question on what is the difference between continuous improvement and radical innovation. And it really is just a matter of scope, scale & magnitude. The process is the same. The problem solving process is the same" It's all problem solving. "Do I teach Lean? Yes, I do tech Lean Thinking. But looks an awful lot like Design Thinking."  "In an ideal world, all this stuff (Design Thinking, Agile, Lean Startup. Lean, etc.) would just be called problem solving." "A neuroscientist will tell that there are only two ways that human beings solve problems. Just two. One is the conscious way. And one is the unconscious way." What is creativity?   "The best that you can do is to steep yourself in the problem so that you have as best an understanding as you possibly can. And then simply take a break. Just take a break. because that gives the hippocampus time to make the connections that we call the term creativity. Creativity is nothing more than the mash up  of certain elements, connections, criteria and memories that all boil up into that sudden burn of neuro chemical reaction that we term creativity: The Eureka moment." "Hansei (Reflection) in Japan is a huge part of a Childs upbringing. It's an after action review: What did you expect to happen? What did actually happen? And what accounts for the difference?" "First of all, Roger (Martin) would say that strategy is not a plan. … he would tell you the distinction is meaningless between Strategy and execution. … Essentially strategy has to cascade down onto every individual." Finally   I hope this conversation was as much fun for you as it was for me and you could take away as much as I did. And I hope you could hear just how much fun I had!  And honestly I got a little stuck taking down notes for the show notes. It was just just too much good stuff and gems in it! To me, it was a blast! Make sure you look up the Canvases that Matt talked about. There are links in the show notes. Also make sure to read Matt's last book "Winning The Brain Game"! Also, the earlier ones are worth the money and time! And maybe, look out for a conference close to you were you might meet him or me or both of us for some chat and a hefty dose of problem solving .  I say thanks for listening in again. If you liked it, spread the word and recommend this show to your friend, colleagues and ,maybe your boss and leave a review! If you didn't like it, please tell me how to improve!  And let's all remember the Mantra:   "What appears to be the problem, isn't. What appears to be the solution, isn't. What appears to be impossible, isn't" Thanks again and hear you in a couple of weeks!  Links Matthew E. May's Website Matt's latest book - "Winning The Brain Game" Matt's book "The Laws of subtraction" Matt's book "The Elegant Solution -Toyota's Formula for mastering Innovation" Matt's "Playing To Win" Strategy Canvas Matt's "Lean Learning Loops" Canvas Roger Martin's "The Design Of Business" - a book I often mention in my work and trainings. It is also mentioned during this conversation. - Roger L. Martins book "Playing To Win", in which he describes Strategy as the choices as discussed during this conversation. 

Braden Kelley is an experienced leader of projects and programs focused on innovation, digital transformation, design thinking, organizational change, and process improvement. He is the author of two books (1) "Charting Change" and (2) "Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire", and has helped numerous organizations increase their revenue and cut their costs through the creation of innovative strategies, organizational change, digital transformation, and improved organizational performance. He has maximized profits for companies while living and working in England, Germany, and the United States. Braden earned his MBA from top-rated London Business School. Braden is passionate about digital transformation, innovation and change, and has written for numerous online publications including CIO.com, The Atlantic, Wired, and The Washington Post. In addition, he has written commissioned white papers on “Harnessing the Global Talent Pool to Accelerate Innovation” for Innocentive, "Winning the War for Innovation" for Imaginatik, and "Five Ways to Make Your Innovation Culture Smell Better" for Planview. In his spare time, Braden is a popular keynote speaker, workshop leader, and a co-founder of the world’s largest global innovation community – InnovationExcellence.com – home to 7,000+ innovation articles and is an innovation leader on Twitter (@innovate) with 19,500+ hard-earned followers.   About Innovation excellence:   InnovationExcellence.com is the online home of the global innovation community, building upon a rapidly-growing network with thousands of members from over 175 countries – thought leaders, executives, practitioners, consultants, vendors, and academia representing all sectors and industries. Their mission is to broadly enhance innovation by providing a forum for connection and conversation across this community – assembling an ever-growing arsenal of resources, best practices and proven answers for achieving innovation excellence. Their community currently generates over 225,000 unique visits and requests more than 800,000 pages every month. Braden also partnered with Rowan Gibson, Julie Anixter and Dean DeBiase to built Innovation Excellence and now has over 400 contributing authors around the world providing a range of perspective on the business aspects of innovation and how to help people succeed in their business.   What Innovation means:   Braden define innovation as a means to transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adoptive solution that values above every existing alternative. Several key things about this definition: The tension between useful VS valuable - you can create lots of useful things very easily but the things that are valuable to people are much harder. The tension between invention and innovation - (they are not the same thing) often times people can get confused when they are inventing things and thinking that it is innovation. One of the key differentiators between innovation and invention is for something to make that leap from one to the other is that innovation must become widely adopted and must also, as a result of its inherit value be able to displace the existing solution even if it is the “do nothing solution”.   The 2 key to success for any organizations: What you have to do is to be really really good at what you do and but you also have to have one eye at the future. Your customer and understanding how their needs are changing overtime so that you are delivering the things that they look to you to provide in terms of the solutions. Innovation is all about value - so you have to be constantly on top of identifying where value comes from in your contacts and how to deliver value and translate that value for people to access that value. Innovation excellence Operational excellence   Value came from three components: Value Creation - the invention part of it Value Access - helping people access that value Value Translation - to help people understand how these new things will fit into their lives   The challenge that companies have in creating the innovation culture is RISK PROFILE. It is one key challenge that every organization have. Oftentimes organizations tend to over index whereas repeatability and operational excellence is they do that to deliver that consistency that the customers expect in that quality. Sometimes it leads people to feeling that they can’t make a mistake so you have to sort of change the mindset of the organization and make learning an accepted part of the culture because you can learn from success as much as you can learn from failures as long as you are set up to do it.   Braden’s Books: Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire Charting Change   Tips to captivate change: Organizational change - it is all about the mindset and what’s important to different individual You really need to segment inside your company for your customers It is all about the customer   Branden shares what excites him about the industry:   “Good artist copy and great artist steal” - Pablo Picasso   If organizations really want to be in it for a long haul and they exist  50 years from now, you have to put the right building blocks in place to build the right mindset and the right culture so that you will have the ability to change as the world changes around you.   You should not rush in without having an understanding of what you are going to do of people’s idea on the back-end. Do not start an innovation program if you are not committed financially, committed to time for people to work on the projects. Before you start asking anybody for anything, know what you are going to do with what they provide. Do you research, do your homework. It is not just about things in your area but keep a file of the things that you are trying to do that has impact. Look and learn from other people who are already doing it and see what you can leverage out of it.   “A body in motion stays in motion, a body at rest stays at rest”   Productivity tool: Notepad Outlook Calendar (online version)   Book Recommendations: Winning the Brain Game by Matthew E. May   Connect with Branden: Website: InnovationExcellence.com and BradenKelley.com LinkedIn: Braden Kelley on LinkedIn Twitter: @innovate Facebook: Innovation Excellence   Thanks again for tuning in! To help out the show: Please leave an iTunes review or post a comment below. Your help is greatly appreciated. If you know any Canadian Innovators whom you like us to feature, please feel free to email us. Listen to more innovators who are crushing it here.   I’m still channeling Gary Vee! Ratings and reviews are my oxygen! Have you seen the new CanInnovate resources & tools page, that provides different offers and discounts. Who doesn’t love to save money? We are a big supporter of Unsplash.com photos. Special thanks to rawpixel

Episode #028 Creativity Creativity is necessary for a business or a team to thrive. We need new ideas and innovation to provide potential solutions to our problems. And it’s the leader’s job to create an environment that fosters and encourages creativity. Listen to Paul and Ken share their thoughts on creativity, how it applies in leadership and some tips on how to encourage members of your team to be creative. Insights: Being creative is finding uncompromising solutions to near impossible problems or questions Creativity should evolve Characteristic of creative people is making the impossible possible Tips and Challenges: Ask good questions and give feedback Do not be afraid to fail and learn from mistakes Take time intentionally to brainstorm and plan carefully for problem solving Show Links: It’s not about the Shark by Daniel Niven Jaws story Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull Winning the Brain Game by Matthew E. May Be sure to check back every other Tuesday for a new episode and head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe! Got a question you’d like us to answer? Email us at leadingthemillennials@gmail.com

What fatal flaws are you committing every day and can you train your brain to overcome them? Matthew E. May is a legendary design thinking guy, sought-after speaker and best-selling author who rose to notoriety for his work with Toyota. In this episode of the Creativity Cultivator Podcast, we unpack the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking and discuss his new book Winning The Brain Game. We also talk about some humiliating failures… mine included. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Dave first is joined by Matthew E. May, Innovation Strategist and author of many books, including his latest: "Winning the Brain Game: Fixing the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking." Next what do Amazon, Uber and IKEA all have in common? The fall under the notion of being leaders in "Category Design." Dave talks about this concept with Al Ramadan and Dave Peterson Co-Founding Partners at Play Bigger Advisors, and co authors of "Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets."

Matthew E. May is an award-winning author and noted thought leader on strategy and innovation. A popular speaker, facilitator, and coach, he works with individuals and organizations all over the world. His new book, "Winning the Brain Game," attacks the bad habits of thinking that set back our problem solving. In this interview, we how to have better decision-making, higher levels of creativity, clearer strategies, and overall success in business, work and life.

Matthew E. May spent over eight years as a close advisor to Toyota. During that time he developed an appreciation for the power of elegance. As he explains in this interview, all too often in order to make things better we focus on what we can add. However, many of the most powerful pieces of art and engineering achieve their power by having things removed from them. The iPhone was revolutionary because Steve Jobs removed the keyboard. Matt has written four books on business innovation, including In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing and his latest The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything. You can follow him on twitter at @MatthewEMay. All of his books are available on Amazon.

Innovation & the Laws of Subtraction is the topic of discussion on this episode of the podcast. We talk about how companies and individuals can engage in addition via subtraction by employing tools like "stop doing" lists instead of to-do lists. The episode covers 6 simple rules for winning in the age of excess everything, why multi-tasking isn't just ineffective but may be downright hazardous to your health, and why what isn't there is sometimes more important than what is. Matthew E. May, author, keynote speaker, and founder of EDIT Innovation joins us to talk about his book, Innovation & the Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess everything. 

Listen to this interview to learn: How Matt's career took off with the publication of his book. How the refinement of a loom design factors into Toyota's heritage and culture. What shibumi means for business leaders. How to combat crippling complexity in organizations. Matthew E. May talks with Bill Ringle about innovation and the ability to achieve the maximum results with the minimum means.

Listen to this interview to learn: How Matt's career took off with the publication of his book. How the refinement of a loom design factors into Toyota's heritage and culture. What shibumi means for business leaders. How to combat crippling complexity in organizations. Matthew E. May talks with Bill Ringle about innovation and the ability to achieve the maximum results with the minimum means.

In today’s increasingly competitive, global market, it’s understandable why so many leaders are trying to figure out how to foster innovation in their organizations. So how is it that some organizations seem to thrive on the cutting edge while others can barely get their innovative initiatives off the ground? That’s ... Click to continue reading

Solutionz Live! Business Edition-Hosted by Chicke Fitzgerald, CEO Solutionz, with guest Matthew E. May. The original interview was 5.26.09. In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing. In this thought-provoking exploration of why certain events, products, and people capture our attention and imaginations, Matthew E. May examines the elusive element behind so many innovative breakthroughs in fields ranging from physics and marketing to design and popular culture. Combining unusual simplicity and surprising power, elegance is characterized by four key elements—seduction, subtraction, symmetry, and sustainability. In a compelling, story-driven narrative that sheds light on the need for elegance in design, engineering, art, urban planning, sports, and work, May offers surprising evidence that what's “not there” often trumps what is.

In my latest Video Podcast (here as audio podcast #103), my guest is Matthew E. May, returning to talk about his latest book, a business fable called The Shibumi Strategy: A Powerful Way to Create Meaningful Change. I’ve been reading the book and have found it be a thought-provoking about your own personal effectiveness in a complex world. You can read more about the book at Matt’s website: www.ShibumiStrategy.com. Some of the topics we discuss include: ▪ What is “Shibumi” and where does the term come from? ▪ What’s the context for lean practitioners or students of Lean and TPS? ▪ Did you reach a point of Shibumi while writing this book or in your other work? ▪ Any particular reason you chose a car dealership as the job and the setting? Is it because it’s stereotypically a very numbers-driven “get it done” setting? To point others to this, use the simple URL: www.leanblog.org/103. You can also watch video of our discussion at www.leanblog.org/v12 . For earlier episodes, visit the main Podcast page at www.leanpodcast.org, which includes information on how to subscribe via RSS or via Apple iTunes. If you have feedback on the podcast, or any questions for me or my guests, you can email me at leanpodcast@gmail.com or you can call and leave a voicemail by calling the "Lean Line" at (817) 776-LEAN (817-776-5326) or contact me via Skype id "mgraban". Please give your location and your first name. Any comments (email or voicemail) might be used in follow ups to the podcast.

Bell and Patterson, May, Skillings, Hudson - Hosted by Chicke Fitzgerald, CEO Solutionz Media 1000am Innovation Chip Bell and John Patterson 1030am Innovation Matthew E. May 1100am Corporate Escape Artists with Pamela Skillings, author of Escape from Corporate America and our guest Carolyn Hudson