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Learn why Josh Linkner believes creativity is the most powerful natural resource at your disposal!
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Excellent video Jeff! Thank you for doing these videos. And I will definitely look into this book.
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Love it, Josh, play and have fun! Best creativity happens when we relax and play <3 Think how many meetings and how many companies have such serious meetings, the most successful ones are fostering relaxation and play, love the eff up friday idea, lol, that's a smart and fun way to grow from "mistakes"
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Thank you for another amazing podcast! So cool to hear those analogies with Jazz. Makes so much sense. I’ll start adding more creativity to my content. Hello from another Berklee comrade!!!
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Cut the pumpkin from the BOTTOM?!?! Mind blown. Josh, you changed my life. And I'm SURE when I read your book, you'll do it again. Thank you both!
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So many great ideas to impliment! Love the F'd up Fridays.
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Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results Hardcover – April 20, 2021
Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results Hardcover – April 20, 2021
by Josh Linkner (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars
A surprisingly simple method to enable everyday people to become ordinary innovators.
The pressure to create big ideas can seem overwhelming. We are aware that bold ideas are crucial in these turbulent and competitive times. However, when it comes to revolutionary thinking, we tend to put off the idea.
Instead of striving for a 10-billion-dollar pay day or an Nobel Prize, the most successful innovators concentrate on Big Small Breakthroughs--small actions that can yield enormous rewards over time. By fostering daily micro-innovations people and companies are better prepared to face the toughest challenges and capitalize on transformative opportunities.
How did a drug dealer create and grow an enormously successful fitness business? What is the underlying motivation that drove LEGO into becoming the biggest toy manufacturer worldwide? What made an Pakistani couple take on the world's market for athletic shoes? What are the simple things that have led Lady Gaga, Banksy, and Lin-Manuel Miranda to their awe-inspiring success?
Big Little Breakthroughs isn't only for propeller-head inventors, fancy-pants CEOs or tech billionaires sporting hoodies. Instead, it's an incredibly easy way to help regular people become innovators in their everyday lives.
Wonderful little stories with BIG learnings
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2021
From the first story about cigarette butts and Superman, I was hooked on Linkner's approachable prose, incredibly storytelling ability, and willingness to connect with the reader. He doesn't just TELL, he SHOWS -- something that is not easy in a book format. Although I know him as a great speaker, I'm impressed with how his message translates so well into an enjoyable and meaningful read.
A valuable book about innovation mindset
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2021
To me, Big Little Breakthroughs isn't so much a how-to book (although that's certainly in there) as much as it is a mindset book. In my own research on innovation, I've found that many people seem to think, "Well, if I'm not inventing the iPhone, I'm not really an innovator." And so they don't even try. It's like, "If I can't be Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, or Sara Blakely [she invented Spanx], then what's the point?" It's hard to imagine how much useful, practical, valuable innovation gets shut down by that attitude before it ever has a chance. This, really, is what Josh Linkner is addressing in this highly insightful, highly readable book. And that's why this is such a valuable addition to the field. My hope is that those who read Big Little Breakthroughs will walk away thinking, "Hey, you know what? I AM an innovator!"
6 people found this helpful
Game Changer For Any Organization
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2021
I've been a big fan of Josh Linkner since I read Road to Reinvention. In fact, we had our entire team read that for book club this past year and it made a huge impact on our organization. Big Little Breakthroughs takes innovation and creativity in business to another level! The stat that 77% of creative advances is attributed to small creative advances, not radical innovations is spot on. But how are those small creative advances taught in business?
This book may be the first to simplify the creative method. The eight obsessions of everyday innovators listed on pages 113-114, may be the most valuable pages in the book. The "Fall in love with a problem" concept is worth 10X the price of the book in itself. I personally leaned in heavy on this section as I've been obsessed with fixing the problem of baseball being long and fixing the boring fan experience. The story about Chad Price and how he was obsessed with the problems with the DMV, then medical lab testing and then pharmacy industry was fascinating to read. It inspired to me to keep attacking the problem of baseball and going after bigger problems.
"Start Before You Are Ready" and "Build a Test Kitchen" hit home as well with creating a mindset of discovery, experimentation and learning over failure. "Break it to fix it" was spot on in breaking down the current business and asking the right questions to reconstruct and rebuild.
The "Judo Flip" has been key to our organization as well where we say, "Whatever is normal, do the exact opposite." Every business can benefit from listing out all the traditional ways of doing something and then reach for the polar opposite.
Linkner preaches being weird, embracing experiments and daring to be different. He teaches us how to out-think and not out-spend and be resourceful. We learn how constraints bring out creativity. More than anything, based on the hundreds of examples and stories from big time entrepreneurs to unknown creative superstars, Linkner inspires us to push the boundaries on the status quo and that anybody has the creativity to change the world.
5 people found this helpful
A must read book for anyone interested in innovation
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2021
Big Little Breakthroughs is an excellent book. While innovation is often thought of as world-changing ideas from the likes of Musk, Jobs and Bezos, Linkner’s book highlights that most innovation comes from the small, everyday actions of the rest of us. The book offers a step-by-step methodology to help unleash the true creative capacity we all have via small actions that demonstrate enormous results over time. Linkner clearly demonstrates how roles often thought of as not very innovative have the power to unleash true creativity. He fills the book with vivid, rich stories from the author's own interviews and research that offer fresh, new insight into how most innovation actually happens. Of the many books on creativity I’ve read over the years, this one is by far the best.
4 people found this helpful
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2021
This is a must read for anyone who wants to elevate their professional and personal lives by unlocking the creativity that we all have inside us. It’s a fun read! Through his engaging storytelling, Josh takes the reader on a journey of lessons from well-known companies to celebrities to ex-cons to everyday people who applied small, simple, creative solutions to overcome massive obstacles and achieve amazing success. Josh continually highlights the awesome power of tiny gains. Most people have far more creativity than they think, and this book gives an easy-to-read roadmap for finding and tapping into it. Lots of practical tips and small, incremental things we can do to unleash our inner creativity and make profound changes in our lives.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2021
I have followed Josh for years now, and super excited to add Big Little Breakthroughs to my bookshelf. Why? Because it is a reminder of the big impact that small insights have. I've always been a creative person, and Josh's new book has helped to remind me of the importance of small bits of innovation that happen every day. Not everyone identifies as being creative, and that is okay. But this book shows that we all have small creative moments. With so many real-life examples and stories of businesses born from small creative bursts, this book breaks down creativity into a framework and system that we can all utilize. I recommend this book to those who want to find small steps that lead to big moves.
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2021
Feeling stuck in your business after this crazy pandemic? Same, friend, same.
Josh teaches in a way I like to learn. Practical tactics, colorful examples and a shot of real confidence. It's a formula that works.
He tells how to innovate, illustrates why it's worked for others and then gives you the tools to try it yourself. Plus easily and without a lot of (or zero!) investment. I found myself starting out a new month with energy and excitement rather than disappointment and drudgery.
Most business books I read in bits and pieces. But I found with this more I read the more I wanted to keep reading. Ripped through the whole thing in two short flights and one 1/2 hour delay.
Well worth the investment. Get a copy for you and your team members.
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2021
Josh weaves together substance, neuroscience, and heartwarming stories in a way that made me think twice about my own creative process. I found myself scribbling many notes. I read at night and found myself waking up in the morning with fresh insights. This book has RANGE -- from big-picture leadership thinking to morning routine hacks. But it flows well, which is hard to pull off. Now I understand how Josh brings his experience as an established Jazz Musician to his work as a bestselling storyteller.
3 people found this helpful
It's more than just becoming your own Chief Creative Officer
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2021
Lots of people tell us to "be more creative," or "think outside the box," or "working in a team generates more ideas." I already know that. Did I really need another book with similar ideas on creativity?
As it turns out, I didn't need another book; I just needed Big Little Breakthroughs by Josh Linkner.
Josh's actionable items are a list that inspires innovation. Equally important, the range of stories makes the concepts memorable. I find myself thinking of the "everyday" person who comes up with a creative solution and how teachable the lessons are.
So yes, you can become your own Chief Creative Officer.
And yet, too often, ideas for self-improvement or leading a team are fine on paper. How do we get over the inertia that sometimes keeps us in a mode where we accept the present solution instead of taking the risk and moving forward with a creative new approach?
I'll go back to the stories along with the book's explanation of why we do things that aren't as productive as we know possible. For example, "Why We Wait."
Stop waiting - Big Little Breakthroughs is a resource that changes lives for the better.
Excellent book for Innovative thinking!
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2021
This book is an excellent look into the innovative ideas process. Whether you are in marketing, executive leadership, or have a small business, this book nails it. The author gives sound advice and provides examples that highlight how small ideas can lead to big results.
This book will help you look at problems and challenges in a new light. I highly recommend it!
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2021
Josh hits the nail on the head in creating actionable takeaways to help drive creativity and innovation in everyday settings. So many simple tools that can truly drive impact in your own life. Now if only he had a chapter on getting kids to eat their vegetables...
2 people found this helpful
Achievable Innovation & A Fun Read
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2021
Really enjoyed this as it has very practice advice, and a different way to think about innovation. Far too many people think they have to wait for a "big bang" innovation, or that their ideas aren't good enough to take action with. This book reminds us that every little step and improvement is innovation, and it's the culmination of many small, achievable innovations that can turn into something significant. This was also a fun read filled with stories, and the author is quite funny so I had several moments where I laughed out loud - not too common in a business book! Highly recommended... enjoy!!!
Timely, relevant and applicable
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2021
Josh does an incredible job of breaking down a complex subject like creativity into small, simple and easy to learn steps that we can all implement to unlock our own Big Little Breakthroughs!
One person found this helpful
Helped me understand innovation
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2021
Innovation is an often thrown around buzzword in the business world, but wha does it actually mean? With engaging anecdotes and everyday habits to cultivate an innovation mindset and build creative confidence, Josh created an exciting roadmap to infuse innovation into any organization. You don't need to reinvent the wheel, just make that wheel a little bit better. Definitely recommend this read to other entrepreneurs, executives, artists and non-artists alike.
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2021
From the first page, Josh Linkner shares exciting ideas --in an exciting way! So many business tomes are ideal remedies for insomnia. Not this one! It's full of the stories of unique people who've been uniquely successful and shows you how to follow their path... one BIG little breakthrough at a time.
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2021
I love the principle, "Start Before You Are Ready". Josh gives license to those willing to risk and create something without having a plan completely figured out. He beautifully illustrates how important it is to get into action, which is a key element in creating BIG LITTLE BREAKTHROUGHS. This is the best of all of Josh's books. Highly recommended.
It Moves Us To The Next Level!
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2021
Keep a pen and paper nearby when you read, because those Big Little Breakthroughs will continue to jump out at you throughout the book! But the Biggest Little Breakthroughs will come in the bonus content available...only if you purchase the book. The tools, worksheets, videos and cheat sheet puts Big Little Breakthroughs over the top and gives us the roadmap to achieve out own Big Little Breakthroughs!
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2021
Great book! It reads like an old friend hanging out telling stories in the living room. Really compelling accounts of everyday people in our society. This book sparks creativity and innovation, and has helpful tips on how to have your own big little breakthroughs.
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2021
While reading this book, I kept applying what I was reading to my own company and reflecting on what I was doing well as a leader -- and not so well. A pragmatic approach to cultivating innovation at all levels of a successful organization. Highly recommend this title.
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2021
Loved the stories, proof of concepts and personal vulnerabilities in this book. Highly recommend to those looking for their next read.
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