Take action: How to form teams to innovate

Recruit 300 employees for a new 100-bed facility in 30 days. That’s the challenge the United Nations presented the International Rescue Committee earlier this year following the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

And at this month’s Career Development Roundtable in Oslo, Norway, Allan Freedman asked participants to gather in groups and brainstorm strategy to tackle the same challenge — encouraging each team to develop the maximum number of ideas without editing or censoring.