20090819 -- Improve Your Business With Bricks (2)

Improve Your Business With Bricks

Most companies face their problems by holding meetings. Unfortunately, meetings are not always the best way to resolve problems. Meetings can make it difficult for everyone to participate and can lead people to oversimplify problems. As a result, ideas are lost, misunderstandings occur, and some opinions are ignored. LEGO Serious Play uses play to overcome these difficulties. Participants use bricks to build models that show how they and their organization work. This is done over several rounds of building and then talking about what has been made.

There are many advantages to dealing with problems through play. While playing, everyone gets to participate. More importantly, the process helps people examine problems from different points of view. Does it work? "Oh, it really works," says David Gauntlett, a university professor and Serious Play researcher. "It gets people thinking and responding to each other in a different way."

You never know. The answer to your next problem may not be in discussion or a meeting. It may be in the toy box.


unfortunately adv.
=> it's too bad.
eg: Unfortunately, I'm afraid I don't know when Mrs. Stevens will be back in the office.

resolve v. 解決爭端/問題/危險
=> solve, bring it to an end, come to an agreement
eg: Sara wants to resolve the argument between her brothers as quickly as possible.
eg: We need to resolve our conflicts so we can really work as a team.

resolve v. 下定決心
eg: Hank resolved that he would walk 2 miles every day, but he never did.

oversimplification n.過度簡化
oversimplify v. 過度簡化
=> make it too easy
eg: People often try to oversimplify problems, but in the end, that is not helpful.

advantage n. 優點
=> good point/part
eg: Chandra's biggest advantage is her speed. She is an amazing runner.
eg: One of the advantages of traveling in an RV is the freedom it gives you.
eg: Years of experience gave Victor an advantage over his competitors.

respond v. 回應
=> communicate
eg: Erich will respond to your email later today.


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toy box
think outside the box 天馬行空的想
=> box:框架(象徵社會上的傳統規範/限制)
=> use your imagination instead of thinking a idea or a method that has been used
=> try to think a new one
=> If you work for a business, then you maybe think outside the box and come up with a new idea
=> that will make your business attractive
=> creative, look for new possibility
=> look at something from a new perspective

critical adj. 批判的
critical thinking 批判性思考
=> critical:carefully examine something
=> put a lot of efforts into thinking

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Meetings can make it difficult for everyone to participate.
=> Meetings can become a situation where it's hard for everyone to participate.

make it difficult for someone to ...
=> hard for someone to do something
=> to describe how a challenging situations is because of something else

eg: Janice's small income makes it hard for her to play all her monthly bills.
eg: The loud music from the party next door made it hard for Clarence to fall asleep.