C'mon get HAAPI (A) Create a Fantasy Advisory Board

We know Fantasy Football, right? It's all about selecting the players we think will perform best, and putting them together on our own hypothetical team.

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This is like that — but instead we'll select advisors, mentors and leaders that would give us the best ideas and advice.

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It's "fantasy," so these advisors can be as rich, famous, dead or imaginary as we like.

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Identify five to start. And literally write their names down somewhere that's easy to see. (I'm partial to sticky notes on my monitor — but you do you.)

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When working on any challenges or projects that could use different perspectives, "ask" the FAB. ("Fantasy Advisory Board")

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It's easy to get stuck in our own thinking when approaching projects or challenges. But whatever it is we're working on, chances are that Steve Jobs — or Oprah Winfrey, or Seth Godin, or Voldemort — would approach it differently than we would.

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So, to boost your thinking — imagine what their advice would be.

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Imagine how they would solve the problem.

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Then, imagine new ideas based on that.

The great thing about your FAB is that you can quickly add new brains to your board — and replace perspectives that might turn out less helpful than you'd hoped.