Perspective: How it Plays a Key Role in Decision-making!
divergent thinking if you were to use words like Profit, Productivity, Service and Quality. The language is the same, but the perspectives of the different functional areas are very different.
This is true in all organizations, not just business. The next time you have a meeting, give each subgroup a slip of paper (privately) that names a profession to which they belong during the exercise. The subgroup’s task is to describe the room in which we are working together from the standpoint of their profession. Professions might include: one group serve as “teachers,” another as “fire inspectors,” another as “interior decorators,” another as “janitors” and then, at the end, have one group represent “burglars.” When the subgroups have completed their internal discussions they then share with the group as a whole. You will find that each group comes up with
