Daniel Pink and “Flip Thinking”

The other day I came across an article by Dan Pink in the Telegraph.co.uk. In this article, Pink talks about various experiments in reversing the “natural” sequence of things.  For example, what if a teacher was to turn his or her classroom lectures into homework assignments and have the homework activities occur in the classroom? Karl Fisch, the author of the viral slideshow “Shift Happens” has been doing that with his high school algebra class. Fisch provides his student with videos of the lectures that one would typically present in the classroom for the students to view before class. He then uses his in-class time to answer questions, create discussions and practice the problems.  I believe there is a big opportunity to introduce flip thinking beyond the classroom and into other elements of our lives. Beyond traditional education and corporate training flip thinking could also be used in our daily home tasks or corporate projects.  At the end of the article, Pink poses his readers with a question, “What is one process, practice, method or model in my business, work or life that I can flip?”

So I too pose that same question to you, is there a process, practice, method, or model that you use on a daily basis that could use an innovative dose of flip thinking?

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