{"product_id":"the-innovative-team-isbn-9781118115718","title":"The Innovative Team","description":"\u003cb\u003eNew tools for tapping the creativity of teams and achieving breakthrough results\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Innovative Team\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten as a business fable that recounts the story of a team's journey from dysfunctional to high functioning\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOutlines a new and effective set of tools for enhanced team performance\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDetails the four stages of a dynamic breakthrough thinking process\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Innovative Team\u003c\/i\u003e offers a great resource for management and leadership development professionals, team leaders, and anyone interested in kick-starting innovation in their workplaces and lives.\u003c\/p\u003e  Acknowledgments ix  \u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 The Story\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 We Have a Problem 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 JustWhat Kind of Duck AreWe Dealing with Here? 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 The Sum of the Parts 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 The Need and theWay Out 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Thinking About Thinking 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Mapping a Minefield 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 The Power of a Good Question 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 FromWild toWorkable 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Combining the Unlikely 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 Be CarefulWhat YouWish For 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 Preserving the Novelty 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 Priming the Pump 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 The Pieces Come Together 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 What’s the POINt? 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15 Assisting Acceptance 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16 Sealing the Deal 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue Where Are They Now? 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 Exploring the Four Creative Thinking Styles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 17 Applying the Framework 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 18 Clarifying the Situation 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 19 Generating Ideas 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 20 Developing Solutions 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 21 Implementing Plans 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 22 The Combination of Preferences Within People 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 23 Creating Conditions for Success 237\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Grivas\u003c\/b\u003e is an organizational and leadership development consultant focused on increasing the creative capacity of individuals, teams, and organizations. His clients have included Ernst \u0026amp; Young, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, and New York University, among others.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerard J. Puccio\u003c\/b\u003e 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.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through the lens of an engaging business fable, \u003ci\u003eThe Innovative Team\u003c\/i\u003e offers team leaders and team members a proven framework for promoting innovation and creativity within their organization. Based on more than twenty years of solid research and international field testing, \u003ci\u003eThe Innovative Team\u003c\/i\u003e tells the tale of a fictional dysfunctional team that needs to come up with a good idea or get canned by their client. The fascinating narrative introduces a uniquely effective set of tools built on the authors’ proven FourSight framework—Clarify the Situation; Generate Ideas; Develop Solutions; Implement Plans. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing the FourSight approach, team leaders and members can learn how to focus their creative thinking in order to respond to situations that have no easy answers or immediately apparent solutions. It enables teams to understand their unique patterns of thinking and gives them the ability to manage themselves more deliberately toward accomplishing a goal. Implementing this field-tested framework demystifies the process of creativity and innovation so that any team can achieve performance breakthroughs.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Innovative Team\u003c\/i\u003e offers a great resource for management and leadership development professionals, team leaders, and anyone interested in kick-starting innovation in their workplaces and in their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990265381093,"sku":"NP9781118115718","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118115718.jpg?v=1761787120","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-innovative-team-isbn-9781118115718","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}