The Secret to Truly Innovative Ideas

The most effective way of changing ideas, of finding truly innovative new solutions,

is not from a conflict resolution process among the team, but from insight rearrangement of

available information. When teams consider their emotional reactions to an issue,

they are reinforcing the value of emotional self-awareness, and the notion that the team as a whole

has emotions and emotional intelligence. There is value in seeing why an idea will not work,

not as a way to kill the idea, but as a way to give it shared space in the team's decision-making

process. The attitude that effective teams take is that there are always reasons

not to do something, but these reasons need not overwhelm us, either because of