Create permission to think bigger

If you want to cancel all your meetings for like a day or for an entire week and just go play around with every AI product you think could be relevant to Airtable, go do it.

I call this... You have to give teams permission to think. So create these moments in your company culture, in your overall business processes, where you're asking people, you're literally saying, 'Hey, this is part of your job to think bigger.'

Komoroske is describing the ground rules for his "strategy salons" - informal discussion groups he creates to generate ideas in low-stakes collaborative environments.

This is a collaborative debate environment. This is only 'yes, and'. If somebody says a thing in this group that is optional and secret and completely off the side of anything that matters, if they say something that you think is an actively dumb idea, you are free to not engage. Just leave it. That's fine. Because nothing's going to happen. We're deciding anything interesting or important here.

The opposite of play is fear. And I realized I think that's what I was seeing a lot of in my team and that's why the ideas were getting more incremental.