112: Nilofer Merchant | Make a Difference from Anywhere in the Hierarchy

Nilofer Merchant (@nilofer) is one of the world's top-ranked business thinkers, an innovation expert, and the author of The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World.

What We Discuss with Nilofer Merchant:

• How bias -- from others as well as ourselves -- works to stifle innovation and the spread of good ideas.
• The process by which ideas are created and spread and how we can exercise our own abilities to make our ideas heard -- even if we're at the bottom of the totem pole.
• Why we conform to expectations that were largely created decades ago and don't really have a place in the modern workforce.
• Where "left-field" ideas often originate and why they're often missed.
• What we can do to make the generation and capture of ideas more inclusive.
• And much more...

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