have coffee with someone from a different part of your organization....

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When I took Model Thinking (my first Coursera class, taken during the fall of 2012), Scott Page talked about how projects (and decisions) can benefit from input from many different people.  Over the intervening couple of years, I've heard several different things in support of that idea.

Dr. Page also talked about how a lot of innovation results from rearranging existing ideas.

The University of Michigan has been working, for the last few years, on getting people from different departments to talk to each other about their work, and has been offering seed money to help jump start cross-disciplinary work.

Here's an idea that's upstream of that -- the U is facilitating faculty having coffee with random other faculty, with the intent that they talk about their work.

Sounds like a great idea to me -- very little cost to anyone, and who knows what might result?

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