Sarah Miller Caldicott

Midnight Lunch (eBook, ePUB)

The 4 Phases of Team Collaboration Success from Thomas Edison's Lab

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How Thomas Edison's system for collaboration can benefit any team Thomas Edison created multi-billion dollar industries that still exist today. What many people don't realize is that his innovations were generated through focused approaches to teamwork and collaboration. Authored by the great grandniece of Thomas Edison, Midnight Lunch provides an intriguing look at how to use Edison's collaboration methods to strengthen live and virtual teams today. Edison's four phases of collaboration success offer a simple yet powerful way to see how different combinations of live and digital resources can multiply results and deliver outstanding ROI now. * Shows how to draw together individuals from diverse disciplines, ensuring multiple perspectives and rapid problem-solving * Explains how to mix specialists and generalists on the same team, preventing groupthink and discouraging a culture of "superstars" * Reveals the steps needed to reskill team members for collaboration in the digital era Team members from any field can take Midnight Lunch to their project meetings, engage instantly, identify action steps based on the book, and generate high-impact results.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118417850
• Artikelnr.: 37361266

Autorenporträt

SARAH MILLER CALDICOTT is a great-grandniece of Thomas Edison, and a seasoned executive with years of hands-onexperience driving growth in new and existingbusinesses. Coauthor of Innovate Like Edison, a groundbreaking book on Thomas Edison's innovation best practices, Sarah inspires audiences around the world through her keynote speeches and executive programs on how to integrate Edison's Five Competencies of Innovation in organizations today. Sarah also advises leaders on how they can use Edison's time-tested methods to create a culture of innovation, as well as accelerate the development of individual and team capabilities that propel collaboration success.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Matthew Greeley xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Chapter 1
What Is True Collaboration? 1 Is It True Collaboration, or Is It a Team? 4
Team A versus Team B 5 Thomas Edison Mastered Collaboration as a Force for
Success 12 Tracing Edison's Collaboration Beliefs and Practices 17 Edison's
Four Phases of True Collaboration 18 True Collaboration Fosters a Growth
Mindset: Balancing Learning and Performance 25 True Collaboration Is a
Superskill That Builds a New Type of Knowledge Asset 32 Chapter 2 Why Is
True Collaboration So Crucial Now? 35 Shift #1: The Rise in Complexity Due
to Massive Generation of Data and Real-Time Data Synthesis 40 Shift #2: The
Rise of the Metalogue as a Tool for Creating Purpose and Connection 47
Shift #3: The Need for Reskilling Workers in the Innovation Age 53 Chapter
3 Phase 1: Capacity--Creating the Foundations for Collaboration to Thrive
57 Part i, Phase 1--Capacity 60 Part ii, Phase 1--Capacity 72 True
Collaboration Toolkit: Hands-On Exercises--Phase 1 89 Chapter 4 Phase 2:
Context--How Context Accelerates Collaboration and Innovation 92 Part i,
Phase 2: The Solo Meld 98 Part ii, Phase 2: Group Meld 119 True
Collaboration Toolkit: Hands-On Exercises--Phase 2 146 Chapter 5 Phase 3:
Coherence--Building Coherent Teams 150 Part i, Phase 3: Coherence 153 Part
ii, Phase 3: Coherence 169 True Collaboration Toolkit: Hands-On
Exercises--Phase 3 194 Chapter 6 Phase 4: Complexity--Forming Smart Layers
and Developing Collective Intelligence 198 Part i, Phase 4: Complex Systems
and Smart Layers 202 Part ii, Phase 4: Footprinting Captures Collective
Intelligence 237 Chapter 7 True Collaboration: A Look into the Future 250
Notes 255 About the Author 271 Index 273