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The extra-Ordinary Leader with Dolly Waddell
Dolly Waddell
Dolly In My Pocket Ep7: Think Differently: The Two Modes Your Meetings Are Missing
NOV 26, 20256 MIN
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Description
Welcome to Episode 7 of Dolly in My Pocket, where we dive into one of the most overlooked elements of effective collaboration: how we think together.
We often enter meetings with agendas, pre-reading, the right people in the room… but there’s almost never an agreed approach to how we should be thinking and communicating in that space.
In this episode, I introduce two essential modes of thinking:
Divergent Thinking – expansive, open, idea-generating
Convergent Thinking – narrowing, critical, decision-making
We explore:
What goes wrong when teams mix the two without clarity
How to introduce "thinking objectives" into your meetings
Why this approach increases both creativity and efficiency
How personality types naturally lean towards one mode — and how to flex between them
If you’ve ever felt frustrated in meetings where ideas get shut down too fast - or where nothing ever gets decided - this is the tool you didn’t know you needed.

