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How Asynchronous Work Helps You Leverage Your Team’s Diversity
Saved by Laura Pike Seeley and
“Sometimes I’ll talk to folks in advance of a meeting, saying ‘Hey we’re going to have this meeting, I know you have a particular viewpoint, I think it’s very important that it gets heard, I’d like to make sure you share it with the group.’ ”
To prevent groupthink, it’s critical that each member of the trio start by developing their own perspective before the trio works together to develop a shared perspective. This is counterintuitive. It’s going to feel inefficient. We are used to dividing and conquering, not duplicating work. But in instances where it’s important that we explore mult
... See morethe overhead of arranging synchronous communication becomes onerous, leading to drawn-out games of secretarial phone tag and piles of missed-call message slips.