[compute] Re: [Sigia-l] "Team work" not what's cracked up to be?

[tOM Trottier]

On Monday, June 26, 2006 at 0:20,
Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:

> tOM Trottier:
> 
> > Agreed. So how do YOU dissolve box walls?
> 
> The art of strategy/design starts, as my sig below suggests, by framing the
> question. 
> 
> So, if you are asking me if one can get original, competitive, inventive
> solutions out of homogenous corporate groups long-accustomed to groupthink
> by way of brainstorming, my answer would be: why bother?
> 
> If you think simply allowing such groups to brainstorm somehow unleashes a
> hitherto hidden trove of ideas, I'm afraid we disagree.
> 
> I'm sure someone can dig up an episode of corporate mavens blossoming with
> unorthodox ideas of immense value at some brainstorming retreat somewhere up
> in a Montana ranch, but the fat part of the Bell curve tells a different
> story.
> 
> In risk-averse, team-worshipping, process-based corporate cultures, whatever
> comes out of brainstorming, two steps downstream, is evaporated by the sheer
> preponderance of groupthink and conformity, for which employees are most
> often rewarded.
> 
> That's a long way of saying diversity is what ensures the viability of
> brainstorming output.
> 
> ----
> Ziya
> 
> Usability >  Simplify the Solution
> Design >  Simplify the Problem

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tOM

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