Description: "You want to lead a good team--a team that gets results, a team you look forward to working with every day. But many leaders are surprised to find themselves bogged down by people problems. They can't get people to row in the same direction--or row at all. They have a nagging sense that the team isn't reaching its full potential. This book is a primer for busy leaders who want actionable ways to build a better team with the people they have. Sarah Thurber and Blair Miller combine their decades of team-building experience with research from the fields of cognitive diversity and creative problem solving to help people lead teams that collaborate, innovate, and get results"--
Brief description: Sarah Thurber is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and team leader. As managing partner at FourSight, she has led a diverse team of experts to develop the FourSight System, which empowers teams to embrace their diverse strengths and enhance performance. Thurber works directly with academic researchers, professional facilitators, technical leaders, and designers to spearhead the development of online and print-based tools that support cognitive diversity and creative problem solving. She is coauthor of The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker: How to Make Connections Others Don't as well as many popular FourSight training manuals and resources.
Review Quotes:
"We take good teams for granted, when we should be building them with intent. Here's a powerful blueprint to get you started." --Seth Godin, author, The Song of Significance
"This is a fabulous book for leaders and team members to better understand themselves and each other. I use this approach in my Creativity and Innovation class at Harvard to teach students that it's our differences, not our similarities, that help in problem solving." --Margaret Andrews, Harvard University instructor "We've engrained this approach into our culture. We use it within teams and across team to increase empathy, cooperation, and innovation." --Ingrid De Clercq, Chief People Officer at Deliverect