This is a post after a bit of a gap. I guess I'm as prone to the writers' block as anyone else ;-)
Thought I'd post a few comments on how we are NOT trained in our schools to visalize. ...
As most people in our Business Team will tell you, I have this pet peeve that people cannot put together a proposal if they cannot visualize the work to be done. This may sound insane, but, the idea is to get them to think about what needs to be done before they go about describing it in words.
This is exactly the same principle that is used in design (E-R diagrams, state diagrams, Business flow diagrams) or even in mindmaps.
Unfortunately, this continues to be a struggle. Probably the issue is much deeper ?
Late yesterday evening, I was in conversation with one of the senior members who was going to go to Chennai to train a few people. He mentioned that one of his standard questions to guage thinking capability is to ask people to "draw" the equation (a+b) square. ie. get people to explain the concept of why there should be the "2ab" portion. I was not surpised to hear that less than 30% of the people asked to explain could do so !
Maybe we should do a company wide session on visualization followed by De Bono's 6 thinking hats ?
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