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Rules of Thinking, The
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Rules of Thinking, The

by Richard Templar
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
Pearson Business
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RULE 64

Leave your ego behind

An effective team of thinkers should listen to everyone’s ideas. However they can’t follow through on all of them. Inevitably some ideas fall by the wayside as you start working through them. Others will be developed into something new so you can’t recognise the original idea at all, although you needed it to arrive at the destination.

If you’re looking for one answer and you have a hundred suggestions, that’s great, but in the end 99 of them won’t feature heavily in the final result. That’s just common sense. However it can feel frustrating if one of those 99 was your suggestion. It’s even more frustrating if there were only two viable suggestions and the one that didn’t get used was yours.

It’s natural to feel ...

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ISBN: 9781292263823