Wednesday 16 January 2008

We are all equals here (aren't we?)

In Time to Think, Nancy Kline points out that we are often intimidated in to thinking that 'the higher up in an organization you are, the better you can think'.

In your new role, do you think that it would make you look incompetent to seek out ideas from junior members of staff, or even from yours peers. Did you not get promoted because you had so many good ideas of your own?

Or are you sitting quietly at the back, not sure how you ended up in a room with all the big thinkers of the company and dreading least they should all suddenly look your way and ask 'what do you think?'

If you knew that your thinking was equal to that of anyone else in your organisation, how much more might you learn and contribute?

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