At FourSight, we believe the fastest way to high performance is to give diverse thinkers a common language to solve problems together. Drawing on ...
Building a good team is harder than it looks. People’s personalities, approaches, backgrounds, and styles don’t always line up. In fact, they don’t ...
A fast-growing HR firm based in Sydney was stunned when revenues suddenly plummeted. LinkedIn had just entered the Australian market. The HR firm had ...
As a team leader, you have lots to do. You have goals to meet and people to manage. You have to make assignments, clarify roles, communicate, fix ...
The following is an excerpt from the upcoming book, Good Team, Bad Team: Lead People to Go After Big Challenges, Not Each Other, written by FourSight ...
What happens when your team's thinking preferences are really lopsided? When I was in grad school, everyone in my class took the FourSight Thinking ...
While teams can lead to great accomplishments in the workplace, they can also be unproductive. More often than not, the difference is dictated by how ...
Do you know what Lego, Google, and Tesla have in common? Aside from being wildly successful, these businesses place a strong emphasis on teamwork and ...
We’ve all experienced it: group meetings where you sincerely felt like you just wasted an hour of your life. Group projects that went nowhere fast. ...
The thinking profile that risks “losing their own voice,” has plenty to say. They may just have a hard time saying it to you. “I often find myself in ...
We all have thinking preferences. Each of us has a high, neutral or low preference for every stage in the problem-solving process. We like to spend ...
What if I told you that the Golden Rule—the one that says “treat others the way you want to be treated”—can actually kill collaboration and ...
"I'll never see people in the same way again..." How learning about thinking preferences impacts individuals, teams and collaboration. Yesterday, on ...
Hear how one team expert enhances two of business's most popular process models by using FourSight to understand the people side. IBM's Mike ...
Learn how your team can collaborate better together, apart. In this guide, we’ll look at the upsides and downsides of remote work, and explore how a ...
A tale of two employees: She was the best of employees. He was…well, let’s just say he didn’t last. I once hired two managers. We’ll call them Ahn ...
As part of our nature, humans are born into the world with two innate qualities that promote survival and growth. All humans are wired to find and ...
It was six hours before the big workshop in Las Vegas. 88 people were signed up, and less than half had done their FourSight assessment. The group ...
“How might we…” Those are 3 of the most powerful words in innovation. Learn a turn of language that can transform a complaint into a question that ...
In a team building session with 25 members of a leading French luxury brand, Paris-based facilitator Patrick Duhoux found a simple way to help team ...
Recently a FourSight facilitator wrote in the following question: Can I use FourSight profiles for hiring? —Harry Dear Harry, Your simple request ...
Developers are the rarest of the four profiles. Only 6% of people in our database are single-preference Developers. People often say they find the ...
In this brief yet insightful video, the FourSight team presents intriguing research findings on how thinking preferences can influence career ...
In this enlightening video, researcher Serap Ozdemir delves deep into teachers' perceptions of the "ideal" student. Through a comprehensive study ...
Ideas fuel innovation. No ideas? No innovation! But what are ideas exactly? In this interview we ask Gerard Puccio PhD, author of “Creative ...
In this insightful video, Sarah Thurber, the Managing Partner at FourSight, debunks five common myths and misconceptions about creativity that might ...
#1. Creativity fuels innovation. Today, it’s hard to find an organization that doesn’t have “innovation” in its mission statement. Professor Felix ...
A recent study on health and wellbeing reported a surprising discovery: People with the longest commutes have the lowest life satisfaction. Most of ...
The FourSight database reveals a remarkable shift in cognitive profiles as leaders move up the organizational ladder. Here is a link to the original ...
What do assessments and your nose have in common? Believe it or not, your nose is the perfect analogy for assessment. Video Transcription So today I ...
Secrets of Extraordinary Performance Mozart was a creative genius. The question is, why? Find out the three keys to extraordinary performance. Video ...
Q&A with Russ Schoen Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management students wanted their teams to work better together. FourSight expert ...
(hint: It isn’t criticism) Often our first instinct is to criticize new ideas. But there is a better approach and one that leads to more creative ...
Q&A with John Champlin, Human Resources Team at Wake Forest University How did you hear about FourSight? When I joined the HR staff at Wake ...