Consider this, if you will, for the next time you need an icebreaker or warm-up activity for a team or group of people who might not be totally familiar with each other. It’s also a fun topic of conversation for a spare moment with your family and friends—and could lead to some interesting debate and discussion.
The question is this: If you could invite any three people, living or dead, to a dinner party, who would you invite? You can take various approaches to the question in terms of whether you want participants to focus on living celebrities or famous people, living notable movers and shakers—but not necessarily celebrities—or historical figures, celebrity or otherwise.
(Do be careful how you ask the question however. Asking, “What three people would you like to have for dinner?” could lead to very different answers, and perhaps criminal charges related to the desecration of corpses, should such a dinner occur.)
Take note: You can also play the game at work—imagine that! Games at work—by focusing on people from your practice, profession, industry, or even company. For example: What three living marketing leaders would you want to have coffee with? What three historic marketers would you invite to a dinner party? (P.T. Barnum, anyone? Totally.)
Depending on how you approach the game and question, the results can be fun, as well as productive, especially if you’re focusing on industry or professional luminaries—and provided you further explore why you’d want to hang out with them. What questions would you ask them? What would you seek their help and assistance with? What do you think they’d bring to a project that you and your team can’t currently bring yourself? How do you think they’d approach a given challenge or problem?
In any event, here are three people that I’d like to invite to dinner—and why. I would not, however, have these people for dinner.
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