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Ken Hudson

Ken Hudson

Dr Ken Hudson, Australian author of "Switch Thinking" (Wiley) and organisational creativity expert; former Marketing Director at American Express.

Oct 8, 2026

11:51
But how then do they, you know, maybe even put the brakes on that a bit so that they don't have 47 projects on the go and nothing gets finished? [laughs]
12:00
Yes.
12:01
Yes.
12:01
No, I, I know that feeling.
12:03
So [laughs] just look- One, one way to think about it is, um, just to make that kind of switch, if you like, from let's...
12:10
If you assume from kind of in the example that I gave from Mandarin to English and back to Mandarin.
12:16
Both equally valid.

19 MINS LATER

31:44
Do you think there's a danger, though, of offloading your creativity to AI?
20:28
Mm-hmm.
20:29
The problem with – and the other reason I like box mode was people would say, well, let's think outside the box.
20:36
But no one knew how to do it.
20:38
And secondly, the moment you start thinking about the box, you actually – you get contained by the box.
20:43
Because you visually start picturing a box.
20:45
Exactly right.
20:46
You can't help it.

9 MINS LATER

29:37
What's a starting point for them?
16:30
Let's talk about, you know, switch thinking, the thinking that can be changed in that, you know, brief, you know, moment between stimulus and response.
16:39
Yeah, I really like that analysis.
16:46
What I've tried to do with switch thinking is I've given the idea of switch thinking a two-minute framework.
16:55
And in a sense, that's kind of what I was trying to do was to capture this idea that you can make a change, for example, or in my language, switch, but you only have to do it for two minutes.
17:08
And it's a really interesting idea because what people, you know, even the most resistant people have changed, you know, and you're kind of almost in their minds.
17:17
You can almost see that it's ticking away.
17:20
And you say, look, it's only for two minutes.
20:37
I wish I was, but I'm

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