On: How to Avoid Idea Averaging

[erikrothoff]

What would you call this topic or category of theory? I'm interested in learning more. Any books or literature that's recommended?

I've become the "product" guy in the startup I'm in, and would love to learn more about helping a group innovate and push forward.

[andrewxhill → erikrothoff]

Not sure... what part of it interests you? Teamwork? Innovation? Decision making?

I was putting together a "best read of 2015" type post but never finished it. There were a couple on my list that I think are related and maybe you'd find interesting.

This one from HN a few weeks back, http://justinkan.com/three-stories

Higher level company organization stuff I thought these two books gave at times contradictory and at times very complimentary thoughts on what made teams work. In reality, neither were exactly about making teams work though :)

Playing to Win http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Win-Strategy-Really-Works/dp/1... is on creating strategies

Reinventing organizations http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Organizations-Frederic-Lal... is about holacracy but talks a lot to people's motivations in a company.

Hopefully I have a couple more interesting things to say on andrewxhill.com too, so keep an eye on it!