ODD

If you want to make decisions by voting and avoid stalling due to a tie vote, you need an ODD number of people.

But if you want to make optimal decisions, you need a number of ODD people. The ODD people will bring some perspectives that will help you see challenges in a new way.

Don’t disagree to be disagreeable. (That’s not ODD [unless it is oppositional defiant disorder]. That’s just poor communication skills and a focus on self instead of the greater need. And it is not PRODUCTIVE)  But if you can see things in an ODD way, you may just have the key to the next solution we need. Perhaps an AMBIVERTED  view is ODD if we were assuming introverted or extroverted approaches were the norm, but an ODD approach may help us avoid groupthink and use GROUP THINK.

Use the ODD to develop the GUIDE:

• Suffering from information overload? See a way to manage it that becomes a solution for others.
• Immobilized by uncertainty? Define a way to express it to empower others to know that we don’t know.
• Facing a seemingly insurmountable challenge? Find the people with the passion and skills to surmount it.

In a historical sense, transforming medical information processing from a centuries-old model (of reliance on individual experts with fragmented views of medical knowledge and a majority of science reports not following the “scientific method”) to a next-generation model (integrating systematic processes, critical appraisal, multiperspective inputs, and user-centered solutions) is a rather ODD confluence of developments. We need a number of ODD people to make this happen.