How to Get the Best Ideas Out of Your Team

The Muse: It’s hot in August, many of your employees are on vacation, and your best creative minds are not producing as well as usual.

Inevitably, creative droughts are going to happen every now and then. Scott Anthony, the managing partner of strategy consultancy Innosight and the author of The First Mile, tells the Harvard Business Review that it should be “no surprise that the ideas coming out feel as though they’ve all been done before,” when your employees are “seeing the same data, interacting with the same people, and having the same conversations.”