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Creative Conspiracy: Harvard Business Review Press

Autor Leigh Thompson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 ian 2013

Urgența de a regândi colaborarea în echipa dumneavoastră este critică: într-o piață unde viteza ideilor noi dictează supraviețuirea, metodele tradiționale de lucru în grup au devenit cel mai mare obstacol în calea progresului. Apreciem Creative Conspiracy pentru modul curajos în care dărâmă miturile confortabile despre munca în echipă. Găsim în această lucrare un avertisment sever: fără o structură deliberată, echipele tind să devină mai puțin creative decât suma părților lor componente. Leigh Thompson demonstrează că succesul nu vine dintr-o colaborare spontană, ci dintr-o „conspirație creativă” planificată, unde regulile, nu libertatea totală, sunt cele care deblochează inventivitatea.

Ca și Alexander S. McKay în Creative Success in Teams, autorul distilează experiență reală în principii acționabile, însă Thompson merge mai departe, propunând tactici contraintuitive, cum ar fi prioritizarea cantității în detrimentul calității pentru a stimula fluxul creativ. Această abordare pragmatică se înscrie perfect în linia editorială a autoarei, care în The Truth about Negotiations sau Stop Spending, Start Managing a explorat mereu soluții concrete pentru scenariile critice de business. Dacă în lucrările anterioare se concentra pe negociere și eficiența resurselor, aici Thompson aplică aceeași rigoare analitică procesului de ideare. Cartea nu este un manifest teoretic, ci un ghid de management care explică de ce variația membrilor unei echipe sau impunerea unor constrângeri clare sunt, de fapt, motoarele performanței. Ritmul este alert, susținut de date din laboratorul de cercetare Kellogg, oferind liderilor instrumentele necesare pentru a transforma inerția de grup într-o forță inovatoare reală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781422173343
ISBN-10: 1422173348
Pagini: 244
Dimensiuni: 163 x 241 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Harvard Business Review Press
Colecția Harvard Business Review Press
Seria Harvard Business Review Press


De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte liderilor de proiect și managerilor care simt că ședințele de brainstorming au devenit sterile. Veți învăța cum să implementați „reguli” care, paradoxal, eliberează creativitatea și cum să gestionați dinamica echipei pentru a obține rezultate superioare. Este lectura esențială pentru a transforma colaborarea dintr-o activitate consumatoare de timp într-un avantaj competitiv măsurabil.


Despre autor

Leigh Thompson este profesor distins „J. Jay Gerber” în Rezolvarea Disputelor și Organizații la Kellogg School of Management, Universitatea Northwestern. De asemenea, conduce Laboratorul de Cercetare Comportamentală AT&T și programul executiv „Leading High Impact Teams”. Consultant activ pentru corporații globale, Thompson a publicat peste 65 de articole în jurnale de management prestigioase și este autoarea unor volume de referință precum The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator. Expertiza sa îmbină cercetarea academică riguroasă cu aplicabilitatea imediată în mediul de afaceri, fiind recunoscută internațional pentru strategiile sale în domeniul muncii în echipă.


Descriere scurtă

Embracing the Counterintuitive Side of Collaboration

Think of your to-do list at work. Chances are the most important tasks require you to work with others—and the success of those endeavors depends on the effectiveness of your collaboration.

According to management expert Leigh Thompson, collaboration that is conscious, planned, and focused on generating new ideas builds excitement and produces what she calls a “creative conspiracy.” Teams that conspire to organize themselves, motivate one another, and combine their talents to meet creative challenges are the hallmark of the most successful organizations.

In this book, Thompson reveals the keys to the kind of collaboration that allows teams to reach their full creative potential and maximize their results. She also reveals a host of surprising findings; for example:

• Left to their own devices, teams are less creative than individuals
• Providing “rules” to teams actually increases inventiveness
• Striving for quality results in less creativity than striving for quantity
• Fluctuating membership enhances a team’s innovation
• Most leaders cannot articulate the four basic rules of brainstorming


Thompson combines broad-ranging research with real-life examples to offer strategies and practices designed to help teams and their leaders capitalize on what actually works when it comes to creative collaboration. Creative Conspiracy challenges managers to adopt an unconventional approach to leading teams that, done right, will lead to the creative success of every team—and every organization.

Recenzii

“Thompson shows that by devising rules and sticking to them and by carefully crafting the make-up of a group, they can become a source for creative collaboration. Her advice is practical and is applicable to everything from start-up teams trying to come up with new ideas to musicians working together, to advertising executives and creative directors developing pitches....[and] could save thousands of business managers, entrepreneurs, art directors and others, hours of time when coming together to generate new ideas.” — Business Day

“This is a useful book for leadership teams that want to refresh their practices. It will certainly provoke lively dialogue.” — School Administrator magazine (AASA)

“This is a great book on teamwork in business and other types of organizations. Leigh Thompson, with her knowledge, teaching and many years of experience, has made a valuable contribution with it to help teams formulate goals and achieve them.” — BIZ INDIA

“Her book provides solid guidelines for any organization that relies on teamwork to get things done.” — BizEd magazine

ADVANCE PRAISE for Creative Conspiracy:

Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr., former Chairman and CEO, Baxter International—
“Whether you’re a senior executive or a junior manager just starting your career, you’ll find Leigh Thompson’s ideas and advice on creativity challenging, insightful, and extremely valuable. I wish she had written this book ten years ago!”

Mark A. Rittenberg, Lecturer, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley—
“Leigh Thompson tears down popular team-building myths and provides fresh solutions to common challenges in this engaging, counterintuitive book. Creative Conspiracy is a must-read for leaders of high-impact teams working to make a difference.”

Claudia Poccia, President and CEO, Gurwitch Products—
Creative Conspiracy breaks traditional paradigms by emphasizing the significance of supporting individual creativity to achieve an innovative group dynamic.”

Pierre Casse, Professor of Leadership, Skolkovo Moscow School of Management—
“In this provocative yet practical book, Leigh Thompson provides eminently useful guidelines for effective collaboration as well as unexpected answers to critical leadership questions: Are individuals or teams the source of outstanding creativity? Where do performance, progress, and success come from? Be ready for some major surprises.”

Stephen M. Calk, Chairman and CEO, National Bancorp Holdings and The Federal Savings Bank—
“Professor Thompson’s unique and thoughtful insight into the true drivers of creativity is required reading for any CEO interested in effective and timely return on investment. Her thorough research is a real wake-up call to leaders who want to ensure that creativity is not only fostered but embraced in both mainline and cutting-edge organizations.”

Karen Jehn, Professor of Management, Melbourne Business School—
“A true myth buster! Creative Conspiracy is a must-read for anyone interested in creating dynamic, high-performing teams.”

Notă biografică

Leigh Thompson is the J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. She directs the highly successful Kellogg executive course, Leading High Impact Teams, and the Kellogg Team and Group Research Center. She also codirects the Negotiation Strategies for Managers course. Thompson has published more than 100 research articles and has authored nine books, including The Truth About Negotiations, Making the Team, and The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator.