The Innovative Team: Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (820 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1118115716 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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They introduce a uniquely effective set of tools built on FourSight, a measure of problem-solving preferences field-tested by top consultants, which can help anyone from professionals to novices solve problems and achieve performance breakthroughs. FourSight enables teams to understand their patterns of thinking and manage themselves more deliberately toward accomplishing a goal.Written as a business fable that recounts the story of a team's journey from dysfunctional to high functioningOutlines a new and effective set of tools for enhanced team performanceDetails the four stages of a dynamic breakthrough thinking processThe Innovative Team offers a great resource for management and leadership development professionals, team leaders, and anyone interested in kick-starting innovation in their workplaces and lives.. The authors present a breakthrough thinking process for developing successful teams. New tools for tapping the creativity of teams and achieving breakthrough resultsThe Innovative Team is an engaging business fable that reveals the impact our underlying work style preferences have on our teams and their results
Great insight for business and life I really enjoyed the way that Grivas and Puccio break down the creative process so that it becomes evident that creativity is not reserved for those typical "creative" types. In fact, a truly innovative powerhouse like Apple thrives when sleuths, hole pokers, and go-go deal closers get involved. It's not just the brainstorming whizzes who bring success to an innovative effort. If your company is stocked with so-called creative types, you will want to read this book. If you feel like there is no way your straight-shooting widget. How and why an innovative team can leverage its organization's creative resources to achieve and sustain breakthrough results Robert Morris By nature, an innovative team is one comprised of members who rely on innovative thinking to improve a concept, methodology, system, process, or product. Those who comprise a team know more and can do more than any of its members can. In Tom Davenport's latest book, Judgment Calls, he and co-author Brooke Manville offer "an antidote for the Great Man theory of decision making and organizational performance": [begin italics] organizational judgment [end italics]. That is, "the collective capacity to make good calls and wise move. "Innovative is Invigorating for Business as well as Education" according to Deborah Browne. This book was an eye-opener for myself as well as my Team, a alternative HS in Brooklyn. It is written in an extremely accessible way and is a game changer in terms of thinking about designing your team in work and all areas of life.I loved it so much that I showed it to my Principal, who was always looking for new angles on innovative approaches to education. She invited Mr. Grivas to speak to all of our team and he delivered a riveting presentation which allowed us to identify our roles on the team and re-think how we can rea
FourSight does that as well, but puts that insight squarely within a context – the context of how you prefer to approach solving problems, addressing challenges, or making change happen. When it's introduced mid-way through the life of a team, we have seen satisfaction and engagement increase and results accelerate. Recognizing elements of themselves and their teammates, they can understand and prevent sources of conflict and work better together. Equipped with this knowledge team members can plan their strategy and discover why they relate the way they do – thus circumventing conflict before it happens. This appreciation enables teams to reach the