Collaborating for Change: Think Like a Genius Process
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Book Description
Summary
This booklet gives an overview of the Think Like a Genius Process, a change strategy which helps individuals and organizations go beyond narrow, compartmentalized thinking; improve communication, teamwork, and collaboration; and achieve breakthrough thinking.
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Description
The TLG Process has three clear-cut purposes:
* to develop our natural abilities to create, invent, discover, learn, and communicate
* to act as a catalyst for breakthroughs and innovation
* to see the factors that really matter in growing an organization's success and leveraging those factors
The Think Like a Genius Process transforms an organization's knowledge, resources, products, and successes in new ways--and transports the organization to new heights of excellence. The TLG Process can function as a virtual mass transit system capable of transporting the imaginations of thousands anywhere they choose to go. “The multitude of the wise” can use it to get to the land of real opportunity and productivity.
The TLG Process is a universal key that opens minds and removes mental barriers that block creative, feasible solutions. Participants share knowledge through a simple yet sophisticated model-building activity that stimulates collaborative learning. They follow a four-step process:
1. Connection: Make a comparison connecting two or more things;
2. Discovery: Explore the connections in depth to generate fresh insights and discoveries;
3. Invention: Create or invent something based on the insights and discoveries;
4. Application: Apply the invention in innumerable ways and contexts; then do it again, endlessly.
This four-step process is called metaphorming. It is an ageless, versatile process of creative and critical thinking. It is the core of the Think Like a Genius Process.
The TLG Process allows participants to envision a solution in some tangible, direct and immediate way. Its wide range of visualization and conceptualization techniques is drawn from the arts, sciences, engineering and technology. Its visual orientation is important to today's visually oriented culture.
TLG owes a large part of its effectiveness to its experiential nature, or as Aristotle put it, “What we have to learn, we learn by doing.”
Perhaps the defining distinction of the TLG Process is that success revolves around fostering “expert novices”: people who have learned to suspend what they know in order to discover what they don't. This means pushing aside one's previous successes and achievements to engage in the discovery process with an open and fresh mind. The openness is crucial. It contributes to the speed, richness, and sophistication of this process.
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Synopsis
The Collaborating for Change series offers concise, comprehensive overviews of 14 leading change strategies in a convenient, inexpensive format. Adapted from chapters in The Change Handbook, each approximately 48-page booklet is written by the originator of the change strategy or an expert practitioner, and includes
* An example of the strategy in action
* Tips for getting started
* An outline of roles, responsibilities, and relationships
* Conditions for success
* Keys to sustaining results
* Thought-provoking questions for discussion
If you're deciding on a change strategy for your organization and you need a short, focused treatment of several alternatives to distribute to your colleagues... Or if you've decided on a change strategy and want to disseminate information about it to get everyone on board, the Collaborating for Change booklets are the ideal choice.
Other titles in the Collaborating for Change series:
* Appreciative Inquiry
* The Conference Model
* Future Search
* Gemba Kaizen
* Open Space Technology
* The Organization Workshop
* Participative Design Workshop
* Preferred Futuring
* Real Time Strategic Change
* The Search Conference
* The Strategic Forum
* The Think Like a Genius Process
* Whole-Scale Change
* Whole Systems Approach
Collaborating for Change: Think Like a Genius Process,Todd Siler,Berrett-Koehler Publishers,1583760466,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Structural Adjustment,Business
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