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060: Dave Blakely on risk taking, storytelling and the invention of Scrabble (Part 3)
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060: Dave Blakely on risk taking, storytelling and the invention of Scrabble (Part 3)

A LOAD OF BS ON SPORT · A LOAD OF BS ON SPORT

March 9, 202341m 6s

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Show Notes

We're back and firing with the final part in my mini-series with the wonderful Dave Blakely, Executive VP at venture builder Mach49, talking innovation, design and creativity in organisations. In this episode, we talk about risk taking, storytelling, how we live in partnership with AI and the invention of Scrabble. And plenty more.

Show notes

  • Do corporations take enough risk?
  • What do we mean by acceptable failure?
  • How Alfred Butts invented Scrabble
  • TS Elliot’s answer to the problem with process
  • Why Dave admires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk
  • The wonders of good storytelling as told by Dave Trott
  • AI and creativity: impacts on how we work, live and play
  • How we live in partnership with AI
  • Our constant state of distraction

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