Editor’s note: Hidden biases shape our ability to see the obvious. Sometimes we need a little ingenuity to overcome the tricks that our minds play, making it harder to identify problems and solutions. Dave Fleming, the author of Tribal Alchemy: Mining Your Team’s Collective Ingenuity, writes here about how the functional fixedness bias can get in the way. He shares an important lesson in how creative-solution making -and in turn, gray rhino spotting and wrangling- begins with how we see what we have. A Slice of the Knife Several weeks ago I was chopping veggies for a salad. Now right…
Author: Dave Fleming
Dave Fleming
Dave Fleming is a sought-after keynote speaker who invigorates audiences with thought-provoking lessons gleaned from two decades of studying ingenuity and coaching some of the world’s most ingenious tribes. Dave’s scholarly and professional experiences led him to develop a framework for collective ingenuity he calls Tribal Alchemy to help teams transform what they have into what they need.