Mike Wagner is a skilled communicator, facilitator, and business consultant who believes you must “keep creating” to be successful. Mike develops engaging presentations, trainings and facilitations for clients from his vast work experiences with small and medium size enterprises, Fortune 500 companies, and leading non-profit organizations. He brings ideas to life through compelling stories to help clients to see their path to success.
Mike speaks and trains across the nation on leadership, creativity, and personal development, while also working on-site with organizational leaders to facilitate the creation of remarkable customer experiences.
- I want to talk to you about the positive power of strange.
- We make the space between strange and ourselves as large as possible. It’s human nature.
- You and I are living in a world where the complexity of the problems we face is growing bigger and bigger.
- Our ability to solve these problems is becoming more and more difficult.
- We keep looking for the lone geniuses, but they’re less and less common. It’s going to take you and me coming up with new solutions to solve the problems that we’re facing. (Essentially, the crowd-sourcing of leadership.)
- The shift in patent applications had moved from individuals, to duos, to teams.
- The best academic papers are now written by teams of people, not individuals.
- If you let all of your “strangeness” out at once, you’re going to overwhelm people.
- The key to strangeness is disrupting people’s routines in a subtle, yet measurable, way.
- What we know from brain research is that you’re more like a dim bulb than a bright one. We have about 40 watts of energy when it comes to brain energy. No more, no less.
- The brain says, “save your energy for the oddities. Ignore everything else.” We save ourselves for the differences.
- “By its nature, the metropolis provides us with that which would normally only be accessible by travel. Namely, the strange.”
- There is one square mile for every 55 Iowans. We are really good at avoiding the weirdos.
- 3M’s success as a company is in the “forced rotations” of having their employees work on products they’re unfamiliar with.
- The key to creating solutions is getting around one another.
- You and I live in a world where it’s very easy to make our own little echo chambers.
- There’s a positive power in being strange. Even for us Midwesterners.
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