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What It Takes to Be a Visionary Leader With Doug Patton of Patton Design

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Doug Patton is the Founder & CEO of Patton Design, a design company based out of California. Doug is a successful inventor, having created over 300 products in 20 international market categories and received over 150 patents and international design awards. He works with companies like Apple, Microsoft, Disney, IBM, and Mercedes-Benz, putting his mission of inspiring others to live more authentic lives into practice by sharing his unique creative problem-solving process.

Doug has been featured on Simon Cowell’s American Inventor. His new book, Conquering the Chaos of Creativity, is the culmination of four decades of inventing and sharpening his creative problem-solving process.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

  • Doug Patton talks about going to high school with Steve Jobs and his experience working and inventing products at Apple
  • Doug’s transition to Microsoft and why many people go this route
  • What does it take to be a visionary leader?
  • Why inventors should create a strong foundational problem statement
  • Doug talks about the 3 parts of the ecology of invention and how to decide on whether to invent
  • Why Doug wrote his new book, Conquering the Chaos of Creativity
  • Where to learn more and get in touch with Doug Patton

In this episode…

A visionary leader must have a grand vision based on a foundational problem statement. According to Doug Patton, a visionary leader must be familiar with the many languages of invention, including engineering, patents, marketing, business, and any other areas necessary for innovation. And the visionary leader must know how to integrate all of this into one seamless vision that allows for a flawless execution.

A leader without a grand vision will create unsuccessful products for one simple reason: they don’t solve a specific problem for people. A good vision is the foundation of a successful idea or concept. Without a strong foundational problem statement, an inventor isn’t able to come up with the right solution to a problem—or any at all.

Doug Patton, the Founder & CEO of Patton Design, is Rich Goldstein’s guest in this week’s episode of the Innovations and Breakthroughs Podcast, where they discuss what it takes to be a visionary leader. Doug shares his creativity compass, talks about the 3 parts of the ecology of invention, and explains the benefits of having a strong foundational problem statement. Plus, he tells us why he wrote his new book, Conquering the Chaos of Creativity.

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Sponsor for this episode…

This episode is brought to you by Goldstein Patent Law, a firm that helps protect inventors’ ideas and products. They have advised and obtained patents for thousands of companies over the past 25 years. So if you’re a company that has a software, product, or design you want protected, you can go to https://goldsteinpatentlaw.com/. They have amazing free resources for learning more about the patent process.

You can email their team at welcome@goldsteinpc.com to explore if it’s a match to work together. Rich Goldstein has also written a book for the American Bar Association that explains in plain English how patents work, which is called ‘The ABA Consumer Guide to Obtaining a Patent.’

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