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#037 – Wisdom – A word from the wise

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Broaden the insight and creativity of your team – Use TED wisdom to stretch your thinking

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The benefits of wisdom sources

Why take this challenge?

Introduce regular wisdom sessions into your team meetings

Stimulate creativity through broad insight from loosely related fields

Encourage your team to share what interests them

 

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There is masses of free wisdom available through the internet. The issue for most of us is sifting the nuggets of pure gold from the mega-masses that aren’t. One really good way of doing that is to find sites that are consistently good at providing quality, and one such site is TED.com.

The wisdom on TED ranges across a broad selection of topics, delivered eloquently in around 20 minutes by renowned experts in their field. One such talk (included in the Pack section below) is Tim Harford’s ‘A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity’. In it he explains how the greatest and most creative thinkers throughout time had interests in a wide range of disciplines.

As he puts it “It’s easier to think outside the box if you spend your time clambering from one box into another.” And this works also for us mere mortals; I too have found this fact to be true for me in my work.

 

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You may find the following resources helpful in tackling your challenge or in gaining further benefits from the skills and insights you develop

To catch up on past adventures you may have missed, feel free to browse our Adventures Library

 

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Who are these people?

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In my long career, I have had the privilege of working, thinking, and looking at things alongside many different wonderful people. Over many years of consultancy, and seeking to change the World together in different ways, the people have become friends.

In developing these Adventures to share with you, I reached out to these friends for the insights and ideas that have most blessed them, or have proven the most helpful to them in their lives and careers. And many of them responded, with one or two things that they look back on as being something that made a big difference for them. So I mention their names as a thank you for their offering.

That they should single out these things in reflecting on long and industrious lives, make those things important.

We are all different people, from different backgrounds, living different lives. So these ideas will not work for everyone. But they will all work for some people (different people each time) and I suspect some of them may work for everyone.

But to be frank, having them work for you is not the point. The purpose of Leading by Adventure is about developing our skills and attitudes to adventure into new thoughts and perspectives and to appreciate them.

That they might benefit you is an added bonus.

It is the adventuring that is key: the curiosity; openness; flexibility; growth; and optimism. The ‘sense’ of adventure and expectation (whether it is fulfilled or not). These are the things that will help us to handle the rates of change that the future brings. And to do so with spirit and mental health.