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What are we reading? The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures.
Frans Johansson
If you are an expert in your field, how might this impact your ability to be creative and innovative? While mastery of a field is valuable, there may be a point where deep knowledge begins to hinder growth. It's easy to "fall in love with our own ideas." Many of the most significant innovations of our time have come from people who were able to look at problems from a perspective different from the experts in that area. Consider your hiring practices—how often do you require extensive experience for management or leadership roles? Might there be advantages to building teams with diverse backgrounds and varying levels of expertise? Could a team composed entirely of experts actually put you at a disadvantage?
Action Step
Is this your team? To be creative and innovative, you must be comfortable surrounding yourself with those who will question your ideas and freely disagree.
Purchase this book! https://www.amazon.com/Medici-Effect-Breakthrough-Insights-Intersection/dp/1591391865
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Two Tips
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
- Maya Angelou
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
- Peter Drucker
