{"id":63139,"date":"2018-04-07T10:54:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T14:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=63139"},"modified":"2018-04-07T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T14:54:02","slug":"better-brainstorming-gregersen-hbr-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/04\/07\/better-brainstorming-gregersen-hbr-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Brainstorming [Gregersen; hbr.org]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/03\/better-brainstorming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Better Brainstorming<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from hbr.org by Hal Gregersen<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Brainstorming for questions, not answers, wasn\u2019t something I\u2019d tried before.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nUnderlying the approach is a broader recognition that fresh questions often beget novel\u2014even transformative\u2014insights. Consider this example from the field of psychology: Before 1998 virtually all well-trained psychologists focused on attacking the roots of mental disorders and deficits, on the assumption that well-being came down to the absence of those negative conditions. But then Martin Seligman became president of the American Psychological Association, and he reframed things for his colleagues. What if, he asked in a speech at the APA\u2019s annual meeting, well-being is just as driven by the <em>presence<\/em> of certain <em>positive<\/em> conditions\u2014keys to flourishing that could be recognized, measured, and cultivated? With that question, the positive psychology movement was born.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Brainstorming for questions rather than answers makes it easier to push past cognitive biases and venture into uncharted territory.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<br \/>\nThe methodology I\u2019ve developed is essentially <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/01\/are-you-solving-the-right-problems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a process for recasting problems<\/a> in valuable new ways. It helps people adopt a more creative habit of thinking and, when they\u2019re looking for breakthroughs, gives them a sense of control. There\u2019s actually something they can do other than sit and wait for a bolt from the blue. Here, I\u2019ll describe how and why this approach works. You can use it anytime you (in a group or individually) are feeling stuck or trying to imagine new possibilities. And if you make it a regular practice in your organization, it can foster a stronger culture of collective problem solving and truth seeking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better Brainstorming &#8212; from hbr.org by Hal Gregersen Excerpt: Brainstorming for questions, not answers, wasn\u2019t something I\u2019d tried before. &#8230; Underlying the approach is a broader recognition that fresh questions often beget novel\u2014even transformative\u2014insights. Consider this example from the field of psychology: Before 1998 virtually all well-trained psychologists focused on attacking the roots of mental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,419,180,74,431,173,196,101,20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-organizational-change","category-pedagogy","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-psychology","category-strategy","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63142,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63139\/revisions\/63142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}