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This is why I don't date Marketers... 😜 On the Misfits, EP5 is our interval, where we candidly riff on whatever is going on in our lives. It just so happens, I'd come back from a bad first date, so Broedy decided this would make a great clip... (thanks bro) 😑 What would you do if your date did the least? . . . Watch S4 / EP5 now on YouTube + Spotify (links in comments). Gain two weeks early access to all episodes at CAMP MISFIT! PLUS MERCH DISCOUNTS + VIP EPISODES! 😳😱😎 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - At Professional Misfits we leverage your podcast to become your most profitable marketing tool! -

I've no idea how to run a podcast, I loathe social media and suck at marketing. Luckily Broedy loves all of that. What I can do is bring television production, strategy + execution to a podcast: - First, I map out our season arc. - Assign the episode topics. - Source guests that were interested in taking to. - Then we record three months worth of episodes in about three weeks. This gives us the operational breathing space to: - Maintain a consistent release schedule. - Market across multiple channels. - Work with our clients. If you want to start your own podcast, you don't need to have ALL the answers... The right team can make it easy for you. P.S - I also designed this t-shirt 🤘 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Call me Chris... I drink espresso, design disruption and co-host the Professional Misfits podcast. -

Here's my running joke on #designthinking ... if you giggle, you understand the problem. . . . [ Picture yourself in the AUDIENCE of a keynote ] AUDIENCE: Hey Chris, why so much hate for the DT process? ME: Hey, great question... DT is used extensively in STEM and corporate as the go-to process for creative #ideation and #innovation. So what's step one of DT? AUDIENCE: Empathise, develop a sense of empathy towards your user! ME: Exactly right, empathy, emotional intelligence. And what skill are STEM folk infamous for NOT having? [ AUDIENCE giggling ] Exactly right, empathy, emotional intelligence. The first step of DT requires practitioners to flex creative skills they do not have. Now if you have $10m invested into an R&D team that employs DT, what results would you expect? [ AUDIENCE stops giggling ] There is a reason 9/10 start-ups fail and millions are wasted every year... and it is not for a lack of process. . . . Here's three realities as to why DT is ineffective: First... DT is a process that facilitates productivity NOT creativity, innovation or originality. Second... skills drive process, it doesn't work the other way around. Third... smart people aren't creative, creative people are creative. It is possible to be smart AND creative, but it is a matter of your skills NOT your process. . . . Do you get the joke? DM me for deeper insight / audit into your innovation process. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Call me Chris... I drink espresso, design disruption and co-host the Professional Misfits podcast. -

It's my birthday - here's a scheduled post of me looking thoughtful. Right about now I've probably swum my laps, climbed out of the pool and about to catch a bus back up to the 'hood to hang at my local café. I'll drink espresso, munch on pastries, write in my journal, drink a second espresso and riff with the locals. Then I'll do whatever I want, with whoever I want to do it with. That's the cool thing about birthdays right? It's your day, your say, your way. Now, not everyday can be your birthday... But any day can be your day to choose you first. How are you gonna spend your (birth)day? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Call me Chris... I drink espresso, design disruption and co-host the Professional Misfits podcast. -

I used to work at this café back in the day. In the heart of the CBD, wedged between bus stops and George St, right above Town Hall train station, it was the centre of the universe, open late and ideal for people watching. It's been a minute... COVID hit and there's been two renovations since, but some things don't change... like grabbing a staff meal while it's quiet. . . . Sundays are for Art 'Meal break' - Sydney Streets [taken by me] Oct, 2023 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Call me Chris... I drink espresso, design disruption and co-host the Professional Misfits podcast. -

Well, gee... if you could tell me what a 'performance agency' is, I could decide if 'align with the ethos'? Anyone fluent in #linkedinjargon could you translate this for me? #wronganswersonly

My job is to make #creativity simple and effective. To me it is simple: there are six skills you need to flex in order to solve, express or produce anything creatively. . . . To casual fans, creativity is a personality trait, something you were born with. If that were true and you weren't born creative, are you destined to live as an accountant? To me it's more simple; rather than creativity being a genetic lottery, there are specific skills you can play with to develop your creativity. . . . To corporate folk, creativity is fabricated through process, like collaboration waterfalls and #designthinking. If that were true... you all use the same process, why aren't you all super creative all the time? To me the answer is simple: you don't have the creative skills. . . . Over the last 15 years I'm lucky to have worked cross-industry with a lot of very smart people doing very smart things and here's a cold insight... Smart people aren't creative. Creative people are creative. You can be smart AND creative, but you need those six skills. I wrote a book about it... I kept it simple. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Call me Chris... I drink espresso, design disruption and co-host the Professional Misfits podcast. -

This is the fable of a Cat in a Hat, two CEO's and one piece of paper. Once upon a time, a Cat in a Hat worked in a tech start-up where the CEO assigned them a very difficult problem that no-one could solve. The next day, a Cat in a Hat presented the CEO with a solution sketched out on an A5 piece of paper. The solution was simple, addressed all the criteria and cost $0 to implement; simply a restructuring of some existing services. The CEO ignored a Cat in a Hat and nine months later told them why his solution was no good... "You didn't give it to me in a business plan". . . . A few years later a Cat in a Hat was working for himself, when another CEO approached him and asked him to look at an extremely difficult problem that no-one had solved. Three weeks later a Cat in a Hat presented this CEO with a solution sketched out on an A5 piece of paper. The CEO listened as a Cat in a Hat explained his solution over the phone. Four months later, this CEO and a Cat in a Hat were pitching for $10m. Three months after that, they were accepted for a $100m bid. . . . Two CEO's... the same piece of paper. What's the moral here? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Call me Chris... I drink espresso, design disruption and co-host the Professional Misfits podcast. -

I was hanging out behind-the-scenes with Tyler the other day, when he dropped this banger... "Everyone's a disruptor until they're unpopular". [mic drop, stage explodes] . . . It's painfully true in the age of social media. The plan seems to be, swim with the tide, find what they want, then pitch as lukewarm as possible to attract the largest audience. The larger the pool, the greater potential revenue, the more people swear your ideas are awesome... *cough* Justin Welsh. . . . But disruption doesn't work like that. Disruption means you swim AGAINST the tide. YOU'RE the one causing ripples in the pond... YOU'RE disturbing the peace... YOU'RE the issue. *Copernicus proving the Earth orbits the sun... unpopular. Socrates engaging the public in critical thought... unpopular. Rosa Parks sitting at the front of the bus... unpopular. Today, these folk would be mocked, dragged and cancelled, simply because they challenged the status quo. Because that's what disruption does - it challenges and ultimately upends - the status quo. You swim upstream. . . . So here's my challenge for all the revolutionaries... Stand for nothing, fall for anything... how are you unpopular? P.S - This photo was taken while waiting for my wave of disruptor popularity to arrive... Any minute now... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Call me Chris... I drink espresso, design disruption and co-host the Professional Misfits podcast. -

Ascending or descending? . . . Sundays are for Art. untitled - B&W Sydney Streets [taken by me] Oct, 2023 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Call me Chris... I drink espresso, design disruption, post street photography, write books, tap dance, make films, perform card tricks, tell stories, build start-ups and co-host the Professional Misfits podcast. What does your Innovation Expert do? -