Google has identified five traits shared by high performing teams. They have also made available their Team Effectiveness Discussion Guide as well as a tool for fostering psychological safety.
What Google learned about high performing teams
Google recently devoted considerable resources to determine what makes a high-performing team. What did they discover?
Carlos Santana on your creative genius
Carlos Santana on your creative genius: “Everybody is born with genius…Say to yourself, I am a beam of light from the mind of God and I am capable to create blessings and miracles.”
Beyond brainstorming: the evolution of idea generation
In the more than 60 years since its invention by Alex Osborne, brainstorming has flexibly evolved and creatively adapted into an even more productive group idea generation technique.
Improving your leadership team’s decision-making
Decision-making is a key leadership skill. But leaders rarely if ever receive decision-making training. Prism now offers hands-on training in the Eight Keys to Better Decision-making.
Review of “Eight Keys to Better Decision-making”
“While books like Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow bring theoretical ideas to a mass audience … You Are What You Decide takes a big step towards real-world decision-making showing how anyone can improve their decision-making by adopting a few simple behaviors.”
– Andrew Tait, Chief Technology Officer, Decision Mechanics
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Sketchy Andy and the nature of innovation
A great idea may fuel conversations or inform dreams. But the innovation requires disciple and action. Watch Sketchy Andy set the world record highline.
Lateral thinking
Whenever I need to recharge, I revisit Edward DeBono’s seminal Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step.
Reduce stress! Become more creative in three steps
Reduce your stress! Discover three strategies to help you face life’s challenges with a creative worldview. See differently, tame your fear and build social networks based on familiarity and reputation. Learn to navigate life’s quick waters with greater dexterity and joy at http://prismdecision.com/become-more-creative-in-three-steps
Changing Education Paradigms
Sir Ken Robinson’s fascinating, thought-provoking and highly engaging animated narrative of the history of formal education, its current failures and a better path forward. The presentation was given upon the occasion of his receiving the Benjamin Franklin Medal by the Royal Society of Arts in London at http://prismdecision.com/ddy