A few years ago, I led a creative session and I opened with an old Japanese Proverb, “None of us are as smart as all of us.”

I told the group that when I first heard this bromide at an innovation seminar in Chicago, I didn’t have the expected reaction.  I said, have you watched C-span lately?  Have you been ever been on a committee?  Have you listened to talk radio?

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