Over on the Ideo Blog, there's a great post on brainstorming methods that work particularly well for introverts. Lots of good ideas here, and you should incorporate at least one of these methods every time you brainstorm because there are always introverts in your group.
Happy Monday! Welcome to your favorite meeting of the week. Here are a few things we found this week you might like:
What if you brought some Grand Canyon Focus to your next task?
Imagine you’re standing at the edge of a cliff, where you really need to concentrate in order not to fall into the abyss. Imagine the intensity of that, the forced focus, the complete and utter devotion to being present.
We've been kicking off our meetings lately with a simple exercise called "I like, I wish, I wonder" that helps participants share the things they'd like to get out of our day(s) together. On a half-page card, we ask everyone in the room to complete these three prompts:
I'd like if we did ...
I wish we might ...
I wonder if we could ...
Welcome to another Monday Morning Meeting! It has been a few Mondays since our last visit together, but we're back at it with a collection of a few things we thought you might find as interesting as we have.
Seth suggests all proposals include a pre-mortem:
If you want us to take your new proposal seriously, consider including a pre-mortem. Include a detailed analysis of why your project might fail. Specific weak spots, individuals who need to come on board, assumptions that might not be true… If you've got a track record of successfully predicting specific points of failure before they happen, we're a lot more likely to trust your judgment next time.
We've found it helpful to think about how we work here at Filament as our "Operating System." For our most recent version, we've focused on Our Purpose, Our Principles, and Our Priorities and turned it into this one-pager. Let us know what you think!
If you love to read business books but struggle to turn all those amazing ideas into actionable plans, please join us for the Filament Focus Club -- a collaborative, business-centered book club with a problem-solving twist. We'll be announcing our first date and book selections soon. If you're interested, check it out!