Creativity and Innovation - Fostering Innovation and Problem-Solving

Self-Mastery Become Your Best · Sep 12, 2025 · 5m

This episode explores how to cultivate innovation and strengthen problem-solving skills, emphasizing that they are learnable practices, not innate talents. Drawing from experts like Clayton Christensen, Herbert Simon, and Roger Beaty, it highlights that innovation arises when curiosity, creativity, and structured evaluation work together.

Listeners are encouraged to ask better questions, embrace diverse perspectives (Scott Page), and create psychologically safe spaces (Amy Edmondson, Google’s Project Aristotle) where ideas can flourish. Techniques like design thinking, alternating between…