The Innovative Team
Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results
Published on 2. November 2011
256 pages
978-1-118-15084-9 (ISBN)
Description
New tools for tapping the creativity of teams and achievingbreakthrough results
The Innovative Team is an engaging business fable thatreveals the impact our underlying work style preferences have onour teams and their results. The authors present a breakthroughthinking process for developing successful teams. They introduce auniquely effective set of tools built on FourSight, a measure ofproblem-solving preferences field-tested by top consultants, whichcan help anyone from professionals to novices solve problems andachieve performance breakthroughs. FourSight enables teams tounderstand their patterns of thinking and manage themselves moredeliberately toward accomplishing a goal.
* Written as a business fable that recounts the story of a team'sjourney from dysfunctional to high functioning
* Outlines a new and effective set of tools for enhanced teamperformance
* Details the four stages of a dynamic breakthrough thinkingprocess
The Innovative Team offers a great resource formanagement and leadership development professionals, team leaders,and anyone interested in kick-starting innovation in theirworkplaces and lives.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Chris Grivas | Gerard Puccio
The Innovative Team
Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results
Book
01/2012
Jossey-Bass
€24.00
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Chris Grivas is an organizational and leadership developmentconsultant focused on increasing the creative capacity ofindividuals, teams, and organizations. His clients have includedErnst & Young, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, and NewYork University, among others.
Gerard J. Puccio is department chair and professor at theInternational Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo StateCollege and partner in FourSight, a training company and publisherof FourSight: Your Thinking Profile. He is an accomplishedwriter, speaker, and consultant to Fisher-Price, BritishBroadcasting Corporation, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Kraft, andothers.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
About the Authors xi
Foreword xv
Introduction 1
Part 1 The Story
Chapter 1 We Have a Problem 13
Chapter 2 JustWhat Kind of Duck AreWe Dealing with Here? 27
Chapter 3 The Sum of the Parts 33
Chapter 4 The Need and theWay Out 41
Chapter 5 Thinking About Thinking 59
Chapter 6 Mapping a Minefield 67
Chapter 7 The Power of a Good Question 77
Chapter 8 FromWild toWorkable 89
Chapter 9 Combining the Unlikely 99
Chapter 10 Be CarefulWhat YouWish For 109
Chapter 11 Preserving the Novelty 121
Chapter 12 Priming the Pump 127
Chapter 13 The Pieces Come Together 139
Chapter 14 What's the POINt? 153
Chapter 15 Assisting Acceptance 163
Chapter 16 Sealing the Deal 181
Epilogue Where Are They Now? 187
Part 2 Exploring the Four Creative Thinking Styles
Chapter 17 Applying the Framework 193
Chapter 18 Clarifying the Situation 195
Chapter 19 Generating Ideas 205
Chapter 20 Developing Solutions 215
Chapter 21 Implementing Plans 225
Chapter 22 The Combination of Preferences Within People 231
Chapter 23 Creating Conditions for Success 237
