Adam Grant wrote Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers.
I’ve often witnessed an amazing power in collaboration around brainstorming and great ideas. It is amazing when it happens and has led to some of the best work in which I’ve participated. At times, though, managers will need to nudge their teams along when it comes to brainstorming. We’ve all avoided sharing the dumb idea or suggesting something tried before.
This talk by Adam Grant about the Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers and the accompanying discussion guide may help you to appreciate how your team may process their ideas, come up with creative ideas, and communicate about those ideas.
In global health, we strive to be innovative and come up with creative approaches to solving complex health issues. It is a task with significant weight–truly lives are on the line.
Might you be up for leading your team in a discussion about creativity and original thinking? Hopefully we can help to support the creativity of our teams and help to grow comfort in thinking about the same old problems in new sorts of ways.
PS: The Lean In website has lots of great resources that you can use. I am a fan of the discussion guides that can be used to guide our teams through difficult conversations or to help set team norms.
PPS: I used some of Grant’s ideas as inspiration for the training I did for CDC Haiti. I can do the same for you!