Throwing out the box

Joyce Wycoff of the Innovation Network is conducting an online survey in search of a replacement for the hackneyed old cliche, "think outside the box."  (Long overdue in my opinion.  It isn't a phrase you ever hear me say!)  You can complete the survey at http://surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=17959827411.  It will only take you a few minutes to scan and select your preferred alternatives, and you also will have the opportunity to propose your own ideas.  I suggested a few including:

• Freely contemplate the extraordinary
• Consider what's beyond the world of your own assumptive design
• Think through the intersections and beyond the boundaries

If you offer any of your own ideas on the survey, please also post them here in the comments section.  While you're at it, and if you're so inclined, please post other innovation-related phrases that you think should be jettisoned in favor of new options.  Thanks!

Comments

[Jerry Elprin]

Malcolm Gladwell, author or 2002's "The Tipping Point" and the recent "Blink," wrote in a 2002 New Yorker article on McKinsey & Company's "star" talent system, "They were...looking for people who had the talent to think outside the box. It never occurred to them that, if everyone had to think outside the box, maybe it was the box that needed fixing."

[Shawn Lea]

I offered "It's time to reinvent the box." But I like your "freely contemplate the extraordinary" too. (On the survey, I voted for something about the box is gone. Hey, maybe we need a "The Box Has Left the Building!")