Innovation Is About Arguing, Not Brainstorming. Here's How To Argue Productively - 0 views
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Science shows that brainstorms can activate a neurological fear of rejection and that groups are not necessarily more creative than individuals.
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To innovate, we need environments that support imaginative thinking, where we can go through many crazy, tangential, and even bad ideas to come up with good ones.
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Multiple positions and views are expressed with a shared understanding that everyone is focused on a common goal. There is no hierarchy. It’s not debate because there are no opposing sides trying to “win.” Rather, it’s about working together to solve a problem and create new ideas.
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Here are five key rules of engagement that we’ve found to yield fruitful sessions and ultimately lead to meaningful ideas.
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We conduct ethnographic research to inform our intuition, so we can understand people’s needs, problems, and values.
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accountable to something other than our own opinions, and it means we can push back on colleagues’ ideas without getting personal.
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The statement of purpose establishes the rules: It reminds us that we are working together to move the ball down the field. As much as we may argue and disagree, anything that happens in the room counts toward our shared goal. This enables us to argue and discuss without hurting one another.
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Deliberative discourse is a form of play, and for play to yield great ideas, we have to take it seriously.