In the Champions League semi-final between Liverpool and Barcelona, something happened that the world’s football experts - top players, coaches and experienced pundits - had never seen before.

In hindsight it seems obvious. As my wife said, as obvious as putting wheels on suitcases.

Yet in the many thousands of elite level games of football in the last 50 years it seems no player had taken a corner kick by simply passing to a teammate in a goal scoring position before the defending team could get organised.

It seems ridiculously simple but when Trent Alexander Arnold set up Divock Origi in the 79th minute of the game he was doing something different.

He didn’t feel constrained by processes or hierarchy or by others saying, “that’s not how it is done” or “you can’t do that”.

In his own way he was replying, “why not?”

Being 20 years old perhaps gave Alexander Arnold the freedom of youth and inexperience to take a corner in a way that was unorthodox and challenged the status quo.

Ask yourself: in what way can this approach help you to work or communicate better?

Why are your internal meetings run in that way?
Why are all meetings in your diary an hour long?
Why do you describe what your business does using those same old stories?
Why are your pitch decks so focussed on your business rather than someone else’s problem?
Why do you begin every e-mail asking the other person if they are well?

Sometimes things happen for a specific reason but all too often teams and businesses operate in a certain way because it has always been done that way.

Unless we challenge the status quo, we will never know if there is a better way.

So, what will you do differently this week that might help you save time, money, generate new ideas, win new business, help you communicate better or leave experts speechless at your audacity?