The Innovative Team

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.

New tools for tapping the creativity of teams and achievingbreakthrough resultsThe 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 thinkingprocessThe Innovative Team offers a great resource formanagement and leadership development professionals, team leadersand anyone interested in kick-starting innovation in theirworkplaces and lives.

Acknowledgments ixAbout the Authors xiForeword xvIntroduction 1Part 1 The StoryChapter 1 We Have a Problem 13Chapter 2 JustWhat Kind of Duck AreWe Dealing with Here? 27Chapter 3 The Sum of the Parts 33Chapter 4 The Need and theWay Out 41Chapter 5 Thinking About Thinking 59Chapter 6 Mapping a Minefield 67Chapter 7 The Power of a Good Question 77Chapter 8 FromWild toWorkable 89Chapter 9 Combining the Unlikely 99Chapter 10 Be CarefulWhat YouWish For 109Chapter 11 Preserving the Novelty 121Chapter 12 Priming the Pump 127Chapter 13 The Pieces Come Together 139Chapter 14 What's the POINt? 153Chapter 15 Assisting Acceptance 163Chapter 16 Sealing the Deal 181Epilogue Where Are They Now? 187Part 2 Exploring the Four Creative Thinking StylesChapter 17 Applying the Framework 193Chapter 18 Clarifying the Situation 195Chapter 19 Generating Ideas 205Chapter 20 Developing Solutions 215Chapter 21 Implementing Plans 225Chapter 22 The Combination of Preferences Within People 231Chapter 23 Creating Conditions for Success 237