Chris Grivas - The Innovative Team: Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results

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Great teams pursue innovation, and this book tells you how. Drawing on years of research, the authors offer a process you can use with your team. They show you what successful breakthrough teams do; they pull you toward your teams possibilities.

Geoff Bellman, consultant and author of Extraordinary Groups and Getting Things Done When Youre Not in Charge

If youre looking to up your performance as a team or simply increase your chances of getting change adopted, youll get there with The Innovative Team . Backed by research-based tools and twenty years of experience, this book teaches individuals and teams how increasing their awareness of the breakthrough thinking process can accelerate performance. From fable to process deep-dive, this is a must for your toolbox.

David Gonzalez, design and delivery manager, Center for Creative Leadership

Copyright 2012 by Chris Grivas and Gerard J. Puccio. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Grivas, Chris, 1965
The innovative team : unleashing creative potential for breakthrough results / Chris Grivas and Gerard J. Puccio. 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-118-11571-8 (hardcoer); ISBN 978-1-118-15082-5 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-15083-2 (ebk.); ISBN 978-1-118-15084-9 (ebk.)
1. Problem solving. 2. Creative thinking. 3. Creative ability in business. 4. Teams in the workplaceManagement. I. Puccio. Gerard J. II. Title.
HD30.29.G747 2012
658.4022dc23
2011029331

FIRST EDITION

Acknowledgments

About fifteen years ago Gerard Puccio shared his initial FourSight theory and measure with Blair Miller and Sarah Thurber, who soon after became partners in establishing FourSight as a commercial venture. We wish to express our deepest gratitude to these FourSight partners whose painstaking efforts and commitment transformed FourSight into a visible, viable, and valuable concept and tool that has benefited people around the world. It was Blair who first recognized the potential to bring FourSight to a much larger audience and it was this vision that has enabled tens of thousands to benefit from the insights associated with the theory and measure. It was his ability to dream big while focusing on the pragmatic details that provided the right platform for FourSight to take off. And much appreciation is owed to Sarah Thurber, whose twin skills in the visual and written medium lifted the aesthetic quality of FourSight and the suite of FourSight products to a world-class level. Her ability to be part artist and part business manager is rare and invaluable in advancing FourSight and The Innovative Team.

As with most creative endeavors, this book took a team to make it happen. The authors are blessed to have a uniquely talented creative community of colleagues and friends to rely on when they needed support. In addition to Blair and Sarah, our innovative team also includes Jonathan Vehar, who was unfailingly generous with his own time and expertise, providing feedback and encouragement throughout the writing process. And perhaps most significantly, Erica Browne Grivas, whose imagination, humor, and deep commitment provided the breath for helping this book find life. She is by far the best writer in the family.

Several other colleagues and friends provided help, encouragement, and support (both moral and tactical) along the way. The authors are deeply grateful to Geoff Bellman, Rigby Biddle, Byron Schneider, Russ Schoen, JD Schramm, Nate Schwagler, and Susan Williams for their contributions to making this book a reality.

Thank you all!

About the Authors

Chris Grivas is an organizational development consultant who for more than fifteen years has been actively managing change and facilitating growth for leaders and companies worldwide, including Ernst & Young, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, New York University, and Blessing White. Whether consulting with individuals, teams, or entire organizations, Chris partners with his clients to customize comprehensive development approaches to support their unique needs and cultures. He helps teams come together, solve problems, and position themselves for future success. He consults with leaders on how they can develop themselves and build an organization designed to produce the behaviors and results they desire.

Exploring the nature of innovation and the corporate culture of creativity has long fascinated Chris since he earned his MS in creativity and innovation from the International Center for Studies in Creativity. Chris is qualified to use many psychological instruments, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, DiSC Behavior Styles Indicator, and a host of 360-degree and multi-rater instruments. One measure that he is particularly impressed by because of its ease of application and its focus on innovation is the FourSight measure, introduced by coauthor Gerard J. Puccio, which forms the basis for The Innovative Team.