The innovative team: unleashing creative potential for breakthrough results

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. Theauthors 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 canhelp 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. ÍNDICE: Acknowledgments About the Authors insert text break Introduction Part 1: The Story Chapter 1 We Have a Problem Chapter 2 Just What Kind of Duck Are We Dealing with Here? Chapter 3 The Sum of the Parts Chapter 4 The Need and the Way Out Chapter 5 Thinking About Thinking Chapter 6 Mapping a Minefield Chapter 7 The Power of a Good Question Chapter 8 From Wild to Workable Chapter9 Combining the Unlikely Chapter 10 Be Careful What You Wish For Chapter 11 Preserving the Novelty Chapter 12 Priming the Pump Chapter 13 The Pieces Come Together Chapter 14 What's the POINt? Chapter 15 Assisting Acceptance Chapter 16 Sealing the Deal Epilogue: Where Are They Now? Part 2: Exploring the Four Creative Thinking Styles Chapter 17 Applying the Framework Chapter 18 Clarifyingthe Situation Chapter 19 Generating Ideas Chapter 20 Developing Solutions Chapter 21 Implementing Plans Chapter 22 The Combination of Preferences Within People Chapter 23 Creating Conditions for Success

• ISBN: 978-1-118-11571-8
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 29/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés