Improve planning and ideation with divergent thinking

By questioning the foundations of our current systems and processes, divergent thinking can help us identify changes that substantially enhance productivity and effectiveness.

The path to innovation is rarely straightforward. Divergent thinking is a mindset that encourages us to consider multiple solutions and break free from conventional approaches when they aren’t serving our needs.

Divergent thinking doesn’t tend to be part of our day-to-day conversations, perhaps because it requires us to challenge ingrained habits and beliefs, pushing us outside of our comfort zones. We’re much more comfortable with incremental improvements. They’re easier to propose, measure, implement, and are implicitly less risky.

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