To really work and partner more effectively, a good rule of thumb is to stop looking at doing things the way they’ve always been done.
Albert Einstein said imagination is more important than education. And one good way to think creatively is to reverse your point of view. Doing so opens up endless unique approaches to take.
For instance if your viewpoint is that your boss wastes too much time and could be twice as efficient if she’d simply tighten up her schedule and not get so involved with everyone’s activities, reverse your thinking. Make up your mind that it’s great for your boss to “waste” time because it helps her understand what others really need or it keeps her out of your hair, or any number of other suppositions.
You’re opening yourself up to other ways to look at the situation and taking off the blinders you may have put on out of frustration. Ask yourself how someone else would handle this situation: the company CEO, a teacher, an inventor. We get stuck looking at things without really seeing the other options.
By using your creative imagination you can bypass these limitations and get more accomplished with greater ease.
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