Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Managing this tension is the key to success in growing and stable organizations—regardless of industry, size, years in business, or profit motive. Here are my five insights on how to manage chaordic tension: 1. Idea people are more comfortable with risk. I’m a big believer in the power of assessments.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 3, 2013

While teambuilding and sensitivity training workshops abound, they typically deliver little in the way of long-term impact, often because they overlook an essential factor driving team performance: thinking. How do these different modes of thinking affect team dynamics, process flows, idea generation and problem-solving approaches? •

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you’ve ever agreed to a decision at work even when you believe it to be the worst move your company could make, you need to learn how to avoid groupthink. It can be a good idea to look out for signs and verify with employees how they actually fee l about different decisions to get a better handle on how to handle them.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Here’s how to get your creative juices flowing so that you can out-think and out-earn your competition. But for the masterminds behind these great ideas, the risk paid off and so too can your next great idea. In three parts, it teaches readers how to get off the ground and thrive in the social mediasphere. The lightbulb.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

First, few people get training in how to be creative in their education. Resolving the first issue requires getting your employees to learn more about the way they think… a tall order for managers. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Everyone also gets to enhance the ideas generated by their colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

One of the most promising approaches for understanding patients’ experiences has been design thinking , a creative, human-centered problem-solving approach that leverages empathy, collective idea generation, rapid prototyping, and continuous testing to tackle complex challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

2) Provide training in creative thinking. For example , teaching people to detect novel ideas, take on challenging tasks, retrieve knowledge outside their main area of expertise, or combine unrelated things or ideas can all boost creativity. Several exercises have been found to enhance creative performance.

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