Forming unique combinations

Less talented teammates require more intervention and supervision. And counterintuitively, the brighter and more talented your team, the more necessary it is to accept imperfection.

People love, implement, and improve their own ideas. So accepting imperfections makes people smarter as they ...

• Generate as many ideas as possible. For the purposes of this exercise, quantity is more important than quality.
• Don’t judge any ideas until the session is over. People will hold back if they think they may be judged negatively.
• Encourage people to think outsi...

Mediocre people need not be completely original. Some of the world's most successful ideas weren't exactly original. They were combinations of two or more old ideas, that clicked due to effort, persistence, timing, and luck. Try to push an idea even if it's not exactly gold.