Podcast 072: Granularity part 2 – Snowmobiling
Playfully decomposing and recombining meetings
“… when the person with the deciding power goes ‘ah, that makes sense, that feels coherent, that feels like something we can try,’ then you know you’ve got there.”
Ever been in a situation where people were grumbling about meetings?
Perhaps you wanted to reduce the meeting load or change who attends, but you didn’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Rather than simply cutting meetings, perhaps it’s time to remix them!
In this episode of Trigger Strategy Podcast, we talk through a real situation when meetings were frustrating people at one company and how Tom helped them shift to a different set up.
We also read out the Snowmobiling card (from Innovation Tactics) – this gives you the exact steps to follow to harness the awesome power of remixing.
The decompose/recombine approach can be used in tons of different situations where you need to make something better, or to come up with new ideas. Don’t sweat over a blank whiteboard, trying to conjure something brilliant out of nothing. Get inspired by playing with new combinations of existing stuff!
Listen now, you legend (29 minutes):
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Tom & Corissa x
References from this podcast episode:
Austin Kleon's Keep Going
John Boyd's Destruction and Creation (1976)
Innovation Tactics: https://bit.ly/innovation-10
Granularity over at Cynefin.io
Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash