# Professor Aline Wolff explains how to practice innovative thinking

1 Faculty News June 22, 2015 ![Batterii blog logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/batterii.jpg?itok=fIxcEfNv)>

Excerpt from [Batterii blog](http://blog.batterii.com/the-power-of-innovative-thinking) -- "What if we really looked at a whole range of different possible answers when we look at a problem? 'What if you had five answers instead of one answer, and then you debated the strong and the weak points of each?' says [Wolff](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aline-wolff). If we, as individuals and teams, can actually get into the habit of saying, 'What if there were better solutions?' we could come up with many valuable, new-to-the-world answers."

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