Category: Diversity of Thought
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What Happens to Teams That Really Use Diverse Thinking
A room full of different people can still end up with groupthink. Difference doesn’t automatically produce different thinking. This video covers what high-functioning teams actually do, inviting the different perspective explicitly, protecting ideas before critiquing them and the three specific…
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Wisdom Moves in Both Directions
There is a special kind of silence in a meeting: the sound of people all pretending they already understand. It often leads to the most important questions never getting asked. We often feel pressure to be seen to understand, to…
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Exchanging Wisdom
We often feel pressure to have the answer. To solve the problem. To offer advice. To fix the situation. But what if the most valuable thing we can offer isn’t an answer at all? What if it’s our curiosity? Curiosity…
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Barriers to Growth
One of the biggest barriers to growth is assuming our perspective is the complete picture. Weird Wisdom® reminds us that difference expands understanding. Every perspective reveals something. Every viewpoint contains information. The question is whether we’re willing to listen. What…
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Beginning or End?
Diversity of thought is where it begins, not where it ends. People hear what I do and say, “Ah, so it is diversity of thought.” Close, but not quite. Having different thinkers in the room is the easy part. Plenty…
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WWW part 6
You do not have to overhaul your culture to begin. That framing stops more good leaders than it should. A sensible first move is small and specific. Pick one recurring decision that matters, and change one thing about how the…
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WWW Part 5
Two things tend to be true when an organisation is ready to take diversity of thought seriously, rather than ceremonially. One: someone with authority has felt the cost of its absence personally. A decision that went wrong in a way…
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WWW part 4
“Diversity of thought” has a credibility problem with results-driven leaders, and it earned that. Too often it arrives as a values poster, a workshop, a warm feeling, and no measurable difference once everyone is back at their desks. So let…
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WWW part 2
When a leader decides how much dissent a team can hold, they are rarely deciding for themselves alone. That decision travels. It reaches the junior analyst who watches what happens to the person who pushed back, and calibrates accordingly. It…
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Diversity is Perspective.
Last week I wrote that you shouldn’t treat your people as a collective but as a collection of individuals. Here’s what makes that more than a turn of phrase: it’s the only way collective intelligence ever actually emerges. That sounds…
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