Why Every Business Manager Needs to Make Sausage - Ignite Boise

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I believe passionately that it’s imperative for every desk jockey, managerial ‘buck-stops-here’er’ to get their hands dirty and make sausage…literally. A world of meetings, strategic exercises, emails and conference calls have blunted our senses and neutered our ability to truly create something. Without the joy of creation, our ability to think creatively is stunted. Every business founder, owner, leader or manager needs to commit to creating, crafting, producing, building or cranking out something physical weekly. This is my call to pull out the meat grinders and canvases, knitting needles and shovels and get your hands dirty. This is my presentation from Ignite Boise #10 http://igniteboise.com/

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@JessFlynn

Why Every Business ManagerNeeds to Make Sausage

I Like Cured Meatand…

homemade pasta,hand-crafted cheese,

home-infused adult beverages,personally pickled items,hand-grown & cut herbs

@JessFlynn

Typical DayAnswering Emails

Conference Calls

Virtual to-do lists

Online Calendaring

Internal Meetings

Writing Emails

External Meetings

Whiteboard to-do lists

Counseling clients

Counseling colleagues

Putting Off Emails

Redoing to-do lists @JessFlynn

Best Part of My DayCutting

ChoppingHackingDicingSlicing

MincingMashingSmashing

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CHECK OUT MY SAUSAGE!

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EFFORT-DRIVEN REWARDS

Survival-Based Outcome

Physical effort =

Something tangible, meaningful =

Deep sense of satisfaction & pleasure

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The IKEA Effect• Labor enhances affection

for its results• Confidence and pride

(even when unfounded)• Happiness in imperfection

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The Art of Making & Fixing

“..misguided separation of thinking from doing, the work of the hand

from that of the mind.”

WHAT’S YOUR SOULCRAFT?

SLOW DOWN, SAVOR, HOLD ON

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CREATE WITH ABANDON

RIGHT BRAIN TERRAIN

“You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don’t have to be. Just create to create.

Create to remind yourself you’re still alive.

Make stuff to inspire others to make something too.

Create to learn a bit more about yourself.” @JessFlynn

GET IN THE…

UNCLAMP

MAKE S#&! MANIFESTO

I will honor physical labor as much as office effort

I will respect the analog as much as the digital

I will invest in my tools as much as my technology

I will revel in the often messy process of discovery and making s#&!

I will embrace the flow

I will commit to creating something physical and tangible weekly

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MY MAKE S#&! BUCKET LIST

Create something in a 3D printer

Sew something I would not be embarrassed to wear

Learn to weld

Learn to letterpress

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MY MAKE S#&! BUCKET LIST

Hack, Make, Create, Invent

Don’t just consume,Don’t just converse,

@JessFlynn