IDEAS TRUMP IDEOLOGY

Our new Premier’s Chief of Staff is a friend of mine. In analyzing her remarkable victory, he said Alison Redford’s electoral magic is in her focus on “ideas not ideology.” There is a lesson in that.

This week's question:

Are there ideas and/or opportunities your organization might be missing because you are locked into the way you see your world? What might you discover if you asked outsiders, even contrarians, to join your strategic conversations....and really listened to their questions and ideas? What might you see if you used a competitor’s best idea (yes, a competitor’s best idea) as the jumping-off point for your next planning meeting?