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    Innovative Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
    Innovative Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
    Innovative Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
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    Innovative Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)

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    Don't leave creativity up to the "creatives" in your organization. Fostering creativity within your team can help your organization solve problems, create innovative products, break out into a new market, and even communicate and collaborate more effectively. Innovative Teams shows you how to:

    • Create the right environment for inventive thinking
    • Build a diverse team
    • Generate a wide array of new ideas
    • Manage disagreements
    • Make sure your ideas actually get implemented

    Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly read and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives--from the most trusted source in business. Also available as an ebook.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarvard Business Review Press
    Release dateApr 7, 2015
    ISBN9781633690059
    Innovative Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
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      Innovative Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series) - Harvard Business Review

      Innovative Teams

      Get up to speed fast on essential business skills. Whether you’re looking for a crash course or a brief refresher, you’ll find just what you need in HBR’s 20-Minute Manager series—foundational reading for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives. Each book is a concise, practical primer, so you’ll have time to brush up on a variety of key management topics.

      Advice you can quickly read and apply, from the most trusted source in business.

      Titles include:

      Creating Business Plans

      Delegating Work

      Finance Basics

      Innovative Teams

      Getting Work Done

      Giving Effective Feedback

      Managing Projects

      Managing Time

      Managing Up

      Performance Reviews

      Presentations

      Running Meetings

      Innovative Teams

      Unlock creative energy

      Generate new ideas

      Brainstorm effectively

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      Copyright 2015 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation

      All rights reserved

      Portions of this work, including core concepts, are derived from the book When Sparks Fly: Igniting Creativity in Groups by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap (Harvard Business School Publishing, 1999).

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior permission of the publisher. Requests for permission should be directed to permissions@hbsp.harvard. edu, or mailed to Permissions, Harvard Business School Publishing, 60 Harvard Way, Boston, Massachusetts 02163.

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publishing Data

      Innovative teams : unlock creative energy, generate new ideas, brainstorm effectively.

         pages cm.—(20 minute manager series)

      Includes index.

      ISBN 978-1-63369-004-2

      1. Creative ability in business.   2. Creative thinking.   3. New products.   4. Teams in the workplace—Management.   I. Harvard Business Review Press.

      HD53.I5645 2015

      658.4'022—dc23

      2014044998

      ISBN: 9781633690042

      eISBN: 9781633690059

      Preview

      You have a problem: Perhaps your company needs a new service to offer its customers or an internal process is taking too long. Your usual solutions aren’t working, so you need something different, something creative. Innovative thinking can help you and your team meet urgent needs or make small but important improvements. This book walks you through each step of the creative process. You’ll learn to:

      • Build the diversity of your team to maximize creative potential

      • Establish the right time and setting for idea generation

      • Set ground rules for team interactions

      • Draw on a variety of approaches to crafting ideas

      • Narrow down your options to a useful solution

      • Instill a culture of creativity within your organization

      Contents

      Enhancing Your Team’s Creativity

      What is creativity?

      Situations that call for creativity

      Benefits of the creative process

      What this book will do

      Building Your Team

      The characteristics of innovative teams

      Assess your team

      Seek new members

      Enhance creative potential on an existing team

      Setting the Stage for Creative Thinking

      Find the right time

      Set the scene

      Do your homework

      Establish rules of conduct

      Generating Ideas

      Brainstorming

      Mind mapping

      Catchball

      Individual idea generation

      Choosing the Right Option

      Evaluate useful ideas

      Narrow down your list

      Identify next steps

      Promoting a Creative Culture

      Enrich the physical environment

      Encourage risk and learning

      Establish a reward system

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      Index

      Innovative Teams

      Enhancing Your Team’s Creativity

      Enhancing Your Team’s Creativity

      Do you need to create a new, innovative product? Is your organization looking for a unique plan for entering into new international markets? Or do you need to think differently about how to break down silos

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