When your team is exploring a problem space and hits a tough challenge (strategic drift, team misalignment, unclear priorities) but defaulting to internal voices risks recycling the same thinking.
Adaptive work requires outside perspective, but that can be expensive and time-consuming to gather, and often it's unclear which voice would actually help. Reading another book won’t necessarily cut it. Neither will having another meeting.
Use a structured process to match questions with thinkers and thoughts. Then simulate or surface their guidance through discussion, prompts, or AI-generated dialogue.
It breaks monocultures of thought, slows reactive decision-making, and invites curiosity over certainty. It also teaches people to seek patterns across disciplines rather than falling back on a single framework.
Create a “Thinker Index” in your org: a shared doc with 12–20 thinkers (authors, systems, principles, frameworks). For any given challenge, have the team pick 3 that offer different lenses (e.g. emergence, ethics, pragmatism). Let each person roleplay one thinker in a short dialogue. Bonus: ask AI to simulate the discussion afterward to see what you missed.
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