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Counter Wooden-Headedness and Break Your Echo Chambers
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Break Your Echo Chambers
For the first time in my life, the England football team made it to a final of a major competition, the European Championship.
The last time was 1966 when we won the World Cup. Fifty-five years of waiting. (update: still waiting, congratulations Italy)
A lot of attention and credit has gone to Gareth Southgate, the manager of the England football team. I enjoyed Matthew Syed’s article about his leadership and multi-faceted team.
Syed explores the limitations of a homogenous team of like-minded experts.
You would have an echo chamber. They would reflect each other’s assumptions back to each other. It would be comfortable, chummy and consensual. It would also be monolithic and non-creative.
