Jason Shen
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Exec coach helping founders and brilliant misfits build companies and partnerships they’re deeply proud of.
Jason Shen
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The ostrich really needed a carrot
This is an example of what’s called a “divergence test” (as opposed to a test like the Raven’s, which asks you to sort through a list of possibilities and converge on the right answer). It requires you to use your imagination and take your mind in as many different directions as possible. With a divergence test, obviously there isn’t a single right
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Some people are stronger at converging than diverging
"In addition, there are problems that humans rather than computers will have to solve for purely practical reasons. It isn’t because computers couldn’t eventually solve them. It’s because in real life, and especially in organizational life, we keep changing our conception of what the problem is and what our goals are."
— Geoff Colvin, Humans Are
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"We had field days in elementary school where in May you'd go out and have a 100-yard dash," he says. "Even then, Mike, he hated losing. Some of the memories I have on activity buses going to football, basketball, baseball games. There was many times we'd have a game of cards on the activity bus. And we'd get to the school we were playing, and Mike hadn't been winning the last few hands? He wouldn't let anybody get off the bus."
2 Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
Black Swan author's rules for living - Boing Boing
Nassim Taleb on leveraging serendipity of social gatherings
The fact is, meetings are often ineffective because most workers aren't disciplined enough to:
share an agenda in advance of the meeting
prioritize discussion topics
make crisp decisions
provide constructive feedback
assign next steps / follow ups
Do you really think that if we cancelled the meeting, they'll be disciplined enough to write clear... See more
share an agenda in advance of the meeting
prioritize discussion topics
make crisp decisions
provide constructive feedback
assign next steps / follow ups
Do you really think that if we cancelled the meeting, they'll be disciplined enough to write clear... See more