I had the privilege of attending the Forbes Leadership conference yesterday. If you ever have the chance to attend, it's a must.
The topic was innovation, and one panel was on innovation and teams. One panelist mentioned that he believed innovation was a team sport, an idea that I subscribe to.
We talked a bit about how to structure a team for innovation - what individual backgrounds, personalities, and roles make a great team that comes up with breakthrough innovations? Judy Estrin had a great answer - what's most important is not the specific backgrounds, but that the team has cognitive diversity. If you're trying to come up with a disruptive product, you need a team of people who each approach problems from different angles - who will challenge one another and help spark creative ideas by following brainstorming paths they might not have otherwise followed.
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I am a team player, and sadly, my team lacks of strengths which are necessary to win, but my coach is a bit inflexible, so it is kind of hard for anyone to make him undertand.
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