Category Archives: team building

Personal Vision Inspires Your Team

From  the Wharton School,

“In the following excerpt from Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead, business consultant Rob-Jan de Jong writes that you have to look beyond the obvious to what stretches the imagination without being absurd. A potent personal vision is imaginative, directed and often breaks paradigms. And it has the power to mobilize the people around you.”

For the article go here.

Teams Are Not The Best Brainstormers

Now here is some sensible research that finds individual brainstorming before sharing ideas with your team outperforms team brainstorming.  It makes sense

Terwiesch, Ulrich and co-author Karan Girotra, a professor of technology and operations management at INSEAD, found that a hybrid process — in which people are given time to brainstorm on their own before discussing ideas with their peers — resulted in more and better quality ideas than a purely team-oriented process.

“When it comes to innovation, however, what really matters is not getting many good ideas, but getting one or two exceptional ideas. That’s really what innovation is all about.”

More about the latest innovation research in the next blog.