Ian Leslie is a strategist and the author of acclaimed books on human behaviour including Conflicted, How to Disagree, and Curious. In this thought-provoking episode Ian talks about the power of healthy argument in helping groups to get to the right answer and why 'thinking is a collaborative activity'. He also discusses how doing our best work requires managing our ego, how to avoid common bias in decision-making, and why debate is so necessary to the health of any shared enterprise.
Google Firestarters is a series of insightful conversations with the interested and interesting of the advertising, marketing and innovation communities, focusing on the areas of challenge and opportunity in the industry. This series of conversations builds off the back of almost 60 live events which were run over 10 years at Google. Google Firestarters is commissioned by Think with Google.
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00:00 Introduction
01:31 Question 1: Biggest career learning
13:19 Question 2: Biggest career mistake
15:48 Question 3: Key change in marketing/advertising
20:43 Question 4: Key prediction for the future of marketing/advertising
22:54 Question 5: Question you wish I’d asked
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