Summary: <a href="http://www.gayleallen.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Twitter-CM-Logo-and-Mona-Patel.png"></a>Design thinking and creativity are like muscles: we all have them, but they are more useful when they are strengthened! In this bestselling book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Reframe-Shift-Work-Innovate-Think-ebook/dp/B00VTZX9XK">Reframe: Shift the Way You Work, Innovate, and Think</a>, <a href="http://www.motivatedesign.com/about/mona">Mona Patel</a> gives you the perfect exercises for your design workout, giving you the tools you need to unleash your inner designer. <br> Mona is a regular contributor to <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/">Fast Company</a>, <a href="http://time.com/">Time Magazine</a>, and <a href="http://www.forbes.com/">Forbes</a>, and she is the founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.motivatedesign.com/">Motivate Design</a>. Mona is also an adjunct professor at <a href="http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/">Parsons School of Design</a>. In this episode, she explains the ways design thinking informs her life and her work, and she shares some of the strategies she uses with friends, family, colleagues, and clients.<br> In addition, you will learn:<br> <br> how to unleash your creativity through design thinking<br> why everyone can be creative<br> creative openers you can use with your teams<br> questions that actually limit our creativity<br> how to push people to create something better without making them feel bad<br> the most important question for designing solutions<br> which assumptions hold us back<br> what it is like to be a woman of color leading a design company<br> the power of a design-centered culture in the workplace<br> <br> If you enjoyed the podcast, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/curious-minds-innovation-inspiration/id1049183266?mt=2" target="_blank">please rate and review it on iTunes.</a> For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/curious-minds-innovation-inspiration/id1049183266?mt=2" target="_blank">subscribe</a>. Thanks for listening!<br> Links to Topics Discussed<br> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Reframe-Shift-Work-Innovate-Think-ebook/dp/B00VTZX9XK">Reframe: Shift the Way You Work, Innovate, and Think</a> by <a href="http://www.motivatedesign.com/about/mona">Mona Patel</a><br> <a href="http://www.motivatedesign.com/">Motivate Design</a><br> <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jck_articles/KaufmanBeghetto2009.pdf">Four-C Model of Creativity</a> by <a href="http://www.jamesckaufman.com/">James Kaufman</a> and <a href="http://www.ronaldbeghetto.com/">Ronald Beghetto</a><br> <a href="http://tedxnewbedford.com/">TEDx Talk by Mona Patel</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography">Ethnography</a><br> <a href="http://www.kodak.com/">Kodak</a><br> <a href="http://www.motivatedesign.com/blog/fear-and-excuse-personas-why-isnt-innovation-happening">Excuse Personas</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space_(visual_arts)">White Space</a><br> <a href="https://www.projectgreenlight.com/">Project Greenlight</a><br> <a href="https://www.ideo.com/work/human-centered-design-toolkit/">Human-centered Design</a><br> <a href="http://esd.ny.gov/mwbe.html">Woman and Minority Owned Business</a><br> <a href="http://www.indeed.com/q-Happiness-Coordinator-jobs.html">Happiness Coordinator</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs">Maslow Hierarchy of Needs</a><br> Thank you to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarknowlin">Clark Nowlin</a> and his sound engineering team at <a href="http://www.claritypodcasting.com/#about">Clarity Podcasting</a> and to Emmy-award-winning Creative Director <a href="https://vimeo.com/vanidavae">Vanida Vae</a> for creating the Curious Minds logo!<br>
