by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the better things to do in a thinking meeting is to find things you don’t want to do.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “That’s not it!” is one of the better things you can hear at a thinking meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, a few years or decades ago\u2014I lose track\u2014I was standing at the white board with a couple dozen thinkers in the room. We were trying to find a strategy for something that needed strategizing and such. I wrote feverishly on the white board for a few moments, turned to the rest of the thinkers, and asked, “Well, what do you think?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nothing but frowns and side-to-side wagging of heads greeted me. A few mumbled “nah.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n I immediately replied, “Great! That’s not it!” as I turned to the board and erased everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We had eliminated a major line of thought from consideration and saved ourselves months of wasted effort. It was a triumph\u2014one of the more significant things I had done in a meeting in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At such a moment, when suggesting an idea that everyone else hates, don’t be down on yourself. Celebrate with the group. Move forward with enthusiasm to the next idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It really is easier than you might think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips One of the better things to do in a thinking meeting is to find things you don’t want to do. “That’s not it!” is one of the better things you can hear at a thinking meeting. For example, a few years or decades ago\u2014I lose track\u2014I was standing at the white board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,25,85,50,306],"tags":[165,147,202,172,307],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-meetings","category-success","category-thinking","category-visibility","tag-ideas","tag-meetings","tag-success","tag-thinking","tag-visibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}