Do you carry on meaningful conversations with the engineer down the hall, the HR director across the courtyard or the marketing manager on the next floor? Or have departments kept you separated so that you miss opportunities to learn from others?
That’s changing in state of the art companies and more effective ways are being used to link ideas across disciplines so that smart people can solve problems together. Knowledge and skill sets can act in wonderful synchrony in the human brain whenever we use tactics such as multiple intelligences to tie them together at work. It’s humans who separate out facts and figures … and this division pattern seems to be changing. Along with complex problem solving … comes the growing need for integration of facts and skills … and successful firms such as
If you believe in the wonder of discovery… or if you have sensed your spirit lift during Brahms' Third Symphony… or if great literature nourishes your mind and soul … you may just be a leader they’re looking for to help integrate more facts, figures and people … across departments to solve problems at work.
Based on the fact that we each possess varying degrees of intelligences in at least eight domains and in various mixes of acumen, it makes sense that workers use and develop more of what I call “smart skills” in the workplace. What do you think?
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