Harvard Business Review – The Best Leaders Encourage “Spacious Thinking”

Your teams spend a lot of time “doing,” accomplishing their daily tasks, but business professor Megan Reitz and researcher John Higgins recommend creating a “spacious mode” that gives them time to think, learn, collaborate and innovate. They recommend talking with your team about their ideas instead of their tasks, making conversation the focus of some meetings instead of goals and rewarding team members who spend more time in a spacious mode.