Perplexing Problem? Borrow Some Brains
More is better than less when it comes to brain power, Harvard Management Communication Letter declares. There are of course many ways to find and use that brain power in a team - and thereby avioding suboptimal solutions and bad choices - but I would say that knowledge and collaboration blogs(?) could be one very powerful alternative.
From the article:
"Leaders attacking a knotty problem that possesses an objectively correct solution must collaborate unfailingly with team members toward its resolution even when they are the best informed or most experienced or ablest of the group. This means setting up systems that ensure collaborative exchanges whether or not the collaboration seems necessary."
"First, the lone problem solver can't match the diversity of knowledge and perspectives of a multiperson unit that includes him".
"...diversity of input can do more than merely add to the storehouse of information that the best problem solver can employ; it can also stimulate thinking processes that would not have developed in wholly internal monologues."
Link via apcampbell.
