Aligning 100 people perfectly, gains no more than what anyone of them would have been.–webionaire

I realized this while watching a group struggle toward, nope, stumble about in a team exercise for solution. The problems grew rather than shrank. Each person could, and did, pose another problem, another reason that would foil the answer, each and any answer proposed.

The solution that this group of new thinkers (all with advanced degrees, long stories and much experience) stumbled toward, kept sliding away. I left after the sixth hour. Went across the street to a coffee shop where I met the CEO having a tall one. We sat together and put together about fifteen options with pencil pricing in less than a half hour. With that, I left the meeting offsite. I hope he figured out how to let his team in on the answer they came up with.