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The Innovative Team Chris Grivas

The Innovative Team By Chris Grivas

The Innovative Team by Chris Grivas


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New tools for tapping the creativity of teams and achieving breakthrough results The Innovative Team is an engaging business fable that reveals the impact our underlying work style preferences have on our teams and their results. The authors present a breakthrough thinking process for developing successful teams.

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The Innovative Team: Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results by Chris Grivas

New tools for tapping the creativity of teams and achieving breakthrough results The Innovative Team is an engaging business fable that reveals the impact our underlying work style preferences have on our teams and their results. The authors present a breakthrough thinking process for developing successful teams. 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 functioning * Outlines a new and effective set of tools for enhanced team performance * Details the four stages of a dynamic breakthrough thinking process The 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.

About Chris Grivas

Chris Grivas is an organizational and leadership development consultant focused on increasing the creative capacity of individuals, teams, and organizations. His clients have included Ernst & Young, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, and New York University, among others. Gerard J. Puccio is department chair and professor at the International Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State College and partner in FourSight, a training company and publisher of FourSight: Your Thinking Profile. He is an accomplished writer, speaker, and consultant to Fisher-Price, British Broadcasting Corporation, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Kraft, and others.

Table of Contents

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

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CIN1118115716VG
9781118115718
1118115716
The Innovative Team: Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results by Chris Grivas
Used - Very Good
Hardback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
20120120
272
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