{"id":16931,"date":"2014-05-18T22:02:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T22:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/sometimes-in-meetings-i-sense-people-seizing-up\/"},"modified":"2014-05-18T22:02:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T22:02:58","slug":"sometimes-in-meetings-i-sense-people-seizing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/sometimes-in-meetings-i-sense-people-seizing-up\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sometimes in meetings, I sense people seizing up, not wanting to even talk about changes, so I try to trick them. I\u2019ll say, \u2018This would be a big change if we were really going to do it, but just as a thought exercise, what if \u2026\u2019 Or, \u2018I\u2019m not actually suggesting this, but go with me for a minute \u2026\u2019 If people anticipate the production pressures, they\u2019ll close the door to new ideas\u2014so you have to pretend you\u2019re not actually going to do anything, we\u2019re just talking, just playing around. Then if you hit upon some new idea that clearly works, people are excited about it and are happier to act on the change. Another trick is to encourage people to play. Some of the best ideas come out of joking around, which only comes when you (or the boss) give yourself permission to do it. It can feel like a waste of time to watch YouTube videos or to tell stories of what happened last weekend, but it can actually be very productive in the long run. I\u2019ve heard some people describe creativity as \u2018unexpected connections between unrelated concepts or ideas.\u2019 If that\u2019s at all true, you have to be in a certain mindset to make those connections. So when I sense we\u2019re getting nowhere, I just shut things down. We all go off to something else. Later, once the mood has shifted, I\u2019ll attack the problem again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Pixar director\u00a0Pete Docter (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.maxistentialism.com\/\">maxistentialist<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes in meetings, I sense people seizing up, not wanting to even talk about changes, so I try to trick them. I\u2019ll say, \u2018This would be a big change if we were really going to do it, but just as a thought exercise, what if \u2026\u2019 Or, \u2018I\u2019m not actually suggesting this, but go with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4p5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}