What's Your Angle?Get fresh ideas when you change your perspective.
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By consciously shifting your perspective, you counter normaltendencies to stick with what you know either because you believeyou're the expert or out of comfort with the familiar. Thistechnique has two benefits: It can generate a solution to animmediate need and cultivate a new habit of mind. The goal is tofind several alternatives in any situation.
To begin, start idea meetings with a quick exercise to helppeople practice looking at things in different ways. Take a picturefrom the newspaper, and ask people to come up with differentexplanations of what's happening in the picture. Thoughit's usually a fun exercise, the message is serious: You'resignaling to your team you want them to behave differently and topractice generating more possibilities.
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