Think about people you respect, but don’t always agree with people who listen, question and challenge and those who come at things from a different angle. I use many of these techniques to good effect in my coaching for individual clients and in facilitation to get the best thinking out of groups.ģ steps to unlock better thinking, plus the offer of a free-thinking session, to get you started. There are many practical clues in Nancy Kline’s work on the ‘thinking environment’. Even the mighty Microsoft talks about the need for a ‘porous membrane’ with the communities it serves. Success came from building networks and alliances to encourage cross-fertilization. This is why Silicon Valley became a hub for companies tackling the opportunities of technology. His compelling argument is underpinned by evidence from psychology and academia. It builds on the idea of ‘the wisdom of crowds’ and that groups of people are collectively smarter than individual experts, when it comes to problem solving, decision making, innovating and predicting.įor small businesses and start-ups, there is a need to overcome isolation and seek out diverse perspectives that can fuel innovation. With fascinating examples from counter terrorism, aviation, medicine, football and mountaineering, Matthew Syed’s ‘Rebel Ideas’ demonstrates the power of divergent thinking and the perils of not achieving it. Many factors get in the way of ‘real thinking’. You observe how people are distracted, not really listening to each other, or just waiting to get their own points across. We have all sat in meetings or on conference calls in which a few voices dominate, some people just try to sound smart and others simply ‘zone out’.
#Great minds think alike how to#
The challenge is how to harness the power of divergent thinking at work. But the best ideas generally come from thinking differently. The proverb 'great minds think alike' has a straightforward literal meaning.
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