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The Adaption-Innovation theory is concerned with differences in the thinking style of individuals, that affects their creativity, problem solving and decision making. These concepts will have particular relevance for managers, since they focus on the interaction between people and their often changing work environment, offering managers new information on, and insight into, the personality aspects of change in organisations. Thinking style is the least understood element of human problem solving.
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This rendition of Saxe's poem is compiled from three sources:
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The Taylor mantra on managing for creativity goes something like this: All employees are inherently creative. That creativity is typically blocked by structural elements within a company. Eliminate the blockages, and you enable "group genius." In other words, you don't manage people; you manage the world in which they work, a world the Taylor's divide into seven key components, or domains.
Body of Knowledge Know what you know.
Recognize that your team's collective knowledge and experience are among your most valuable resources. Assess your body of knowledge; find out where -- in whom -- it resides. Spread it around: ensure that everyone knows "what is known" to eliminate duplicate efforts and build unity.
Process Design and Facilitation Clear the pathways.
In most companies the creative process happens by accident. Find out how it happens in yours. Discover your enterprise's internal processes, or pathways, and clear them of obstacles. Don't let tradition dictate how things are done. Meetings, for example, should be times of intensive interaction. They should be called only when a project or problem requires actual collaboration and group creativity.
Education Learn how you learn.
Discover the processes by which your team gathers information or explores new ideas, and assess your attitudes toward learning. If success depends on maintaining your body of knowledge, then learning must be a constant activity.
Environment
Establish the physical and psychological field for work. Creating a functional environment means departing radically from workplaces left over from the industrial era. Creative space must be adaptable to multiple uses -- from large meetings to small breakouts. It must be comfortable, healthy, homey, but fully functional -- a place that supports multiple styles of work and creativity, from writing on wall panels to pacing back and forth. Above all, your environment must allow team members to "work big and work collaboratively."
Technology
It works for you, not the other way around. Used appropriately, it lets an enterprise leverage its creative work. But technology is also a false "quick fix" that will simply magnify and accelerate whatever flaws remain in your creative processes. Make your technology yours. Customize it to your needs and systems.
Project Management
Manage the environment, not the people. Make sure that the environment maximizes creativity, that the body of knowledge is rich and accessible, that the team is as diverse as possible. Most important, facilitate. Lead team members through a clearly enunciated creative process -- like Scan, Focus, Act -- and evaluate the project and the team's progress at each step.
Venture Management
The big picture. Develop a specific corporate vision to bring "there" to "here." Choose a preferred future state, then determine how to modify daily actions and processes to achieve it. It also means maintaining your organization's health, preserving functional aspects, and searching for new, more effective, and creative methods.
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Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the fallacies of standard management thinking in First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently. In seven chapters, the two consultants for the Gallup Organization debunk some dearly held notions about management, such as "treat people as you like to be treated"; "people are capable of almost anything"; and "a manager's role is diminishing in today's economy." "Great managers are revolutionaries," the authors write. "This book will take you inside the minds of these managers to explain why they have toppled conventional wisdom and reveal the new truths they have forged in its place."
The authors have culled their observations from more than , interviews conducted by Gallup during the past years. Quoting leaders such as basketball coach Phil Jackson, Buckingham and Coffman outline "four keys" to becoming an excellent manager: Finding the right fit for employees, focusing on strengths of employees, defining the right results, and selecting staff for talent--not just knowledge and skills. First, Break All the Rules offers specific techniques for helping people perform better on the job. For instance, the authors show ways to structure a trial period for a new worker and how to create a pay plan that rewards people for their expertise instead of how fast they climb the company ladder.
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Free tutorials on many business topics
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Fee based access to articles and case studies on Communication, Finance & Accounting, Global Business, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Ogranizational Development, Sales & Marketing, Strategy, Technology & Operations
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Income/Outcome a simulation-based finance-learning tool that helps to develop business visualization skills in all employees. When they can see the business and identify their role in the business, they can make better business decisions which improve the bottom line results.
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Some people are very clear about a concern and can describe it with precise detail. Others experience more difficulty articulating a concern. Often we know that something requires a change in our lives and we are motivated to take action, but we need to gain more precision as to just what it is that is of concern to us. The following steps have been designed to help you assess your current concern, construct a clear statement regarding the concern, and determine what steps are necessary to initiate successful and effective resolution.
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Management training has never been easier, better or more fun that this!
Here's how it works: Pick a topic or movie title that interests you and download the Study Guides for movies dealing with that topic. (There is a $. fee for each guide, which is downloaded direct to your computer).
Then rent or buy the movie. Watch it, read the guide and you're on your way.
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The Parable of the Abilene Paradox
Four adults are sitting on a porch in the small town of Coleman, Texas, some miles from Abilene. They are engaging in as little motion as possible, drinking lemonade, watching the fan spin lazily, and occasionally playing the odd game of dominoes. The characters are a married couple and the wife’s parents. At some point, the wife’s father suggests they drive to Abilene to eat at a cafeteria there. The son-in-law thinks this is a crazy idea but doesn’t see any need to upset the apple cart, so he goes along with it, as do the two women. They get in their unair-conditioned Buick and drive through a dust storm to Abilene. They eat a mediocre lunch at the cafeteria and return to Coleman exhausted, hot, and generally unhappy with the experience. It is not until they return home that it is revealed that none of them really wanted to go to Abilenethey were just going along because they thought the others were eager to go. Naturally, everyone sees this miss in communication as someone else’s problem!
Dr. Harvey used this wonderfully simple parable to illustrate what he believes is a major symptom of organizational dysfunction: the management of agreementas opposed to the management of disagreement or conflict. This unique perspective has much to teach us about how we do or do not engage in deep inquiry and in self-disclosure when attempting to come to agreement with others.
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In reviewing the unconventional methods of these vanguard organizations, we found that, while innovation and breakthroughs can never be commanded from the top, leaders can do much to increase throughput of significant ideas. And indeed they must. We see these leading-edge organizations using seven key strategies for fortifying the idea factory:
* Invite everyone in the quest for new ideas.
* Involve customers in the process of generating ideas.
* Involve customers in new ways.
* Focus on the needs that customers don't express.
* Seek ideas from new customer groups.
* Involve suppliers in product innovation.
* Benchmark idea-creation methods.
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Tom’s Re-imagine Manifesto:
They say .my (Tom) language is extreme.
I say .the times are extreme.
They say I’m extreme.
I say I’m a realist.
They say I demand too much.
I say they accept mediocrity & continuous improvement too readily.
They say "We can’t handle this much change."
I say "Your job and career are in jeopardy; what other options do you have?"
They say Brand You is not for everyone.
I say the alternative is unemployment.
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Many managers get frustrated with subordinates who are obviously bright and intelligent, yet can't seem to use their ability in positive and useful ways. People like this are usually character-ized as "difficult" or "under-achievers." What's so maddening is that they have masses of talent, but seem bent on not using it in ways that the organization-or the boss-deems acceptable and useful. When the potential does appear, it's often of a kind that's almost willfully perverse.
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Though we have a wide range of products, each with its own specific features and applications, all of the packages and solutions we produce have one thing in common. Each is, in its own way, dedicated to pushing technology to its limits to deliver a unique recruitment resource.
At one end of our product range are Windows-based packages designed to address specific human resources needs. Discus® is one of these, a market leading DISC profiler with the most intelligent report generator available. Discus Team, too, falls into this category: a unique tool for developing and understanding teams.
Beyond these, Axiom's products have developed out onto the Internet. An important part of this development is Discus Online, a Web-enabled version of Discus that provides all the same features of the packaged version, but with all the advantages of an Internet site. Discus Online goes further than this, too, through its 'Synergy' interface. Discus Online: Synergy allows the service to be customised and installed into any existing Website.
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A series of simple questions, which can be used either individually or in groups, designed to support creative and divergent thinking when faced by a design problem. The questions need a point of focus, which could either be an existing solution or proposed concepts to a design problem. The questions should be taken one at a time, to explore new ways and approaches to the problem.
In a brainstorming session, it can be useful to write each statement on a card, and randomly select a card when discussing alternative solutions. Alternatively, paste the questions onto a board and place in the design team's environment.
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Project management isn't all just glitz and glamour. There's plenty of dirt in the trenches. Here are the stories of Real Project Management and real project managers. Problems solved, lessons learned, experiences shared--for your edification and entertainment.
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