You want to lead a good team―a team that gets results, a team you look forward to working with every day. But many leaders are surprised to find themselves bogged down by people problems. They can’t get people to row in the same direction―or row at all. They have a nagging sense that the team isn’t reaching its full potential. This book is a primer for busy leaders who want actionable ways to build a better team with the people they have. Sarah Thurber and Blair Miller combine their decades of team-building experience with research from the fields of cognitive diversity and creative problem solving to help people lead teams that collaborate, innovate, and get results. Their advice? If you want to lead a good team, don’t follow your instincts. Follow the science.
A business parable that combines practical problem-solving tips with a story that shows how FourSight helps a team expand their effectiveness.
This book dispel the myth that creative talent is something possessed by a gifted minority and provides insights into enhancing your innate creativity.
This training manual is a fun, fast introduction to core concepts of creativity. It includes dozens of creative thinking tools.
This training manual helps you improve your facilitation skills and lead others successfully through a creative problem solving process.
The Innovative Team is a business parable that combines practical problem-solving tips with a story that explains how the FourSight framework helps members of a team expand their effectiveness when they learn to appreciate their own thinking profiles. Watch the "book trailer."
"The power of a good story to teach us important life and business lessons is strikingly evident in this enjoyable, realistic, and practical business tale. It's two books in one, really—both a fictional story and a factual tutorial on how you can move a group intentionally through the important stages of innovation. When you read The Innovative Team you'll travel down the path of breakthrough thinking and experience the many twists and turns, ups and downs, detours and speed bumps of a group that's challenged to solve a tough business problem. At the completion of the journey, you'll be treated to a master class in creative problem solving. You'll learn practical tools, valuable tips, and important concepts that you can apply to your own innovative team. It's a must-read for all leaders who want to improve the ways in which their groups find new and sustainable solutions to the ever-increasing challenges that organizations face."
—Jim Kouzes, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge; Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
The Innovative Team, co-authored by Chris Grivas and Gerard Puccio, offers a great resource for anyone interested in kick-starting innovation. Read an excerpt.
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