First steps to take to make a project start right. An overview of the most basic concepts for helping project teams perform more effectively.
These materials are provided to help managers and students more effectively manage team projects. Based on more extensive materials developed for the management of large, complex creative collaborations, these are targeted to give the most basic and useful concepts and tools in a concise format.
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| Quickstart First steps to take to make a project start right. An overview of the most basic concepts for helping project teams perform more effectively. |
| Teamwork Goes Both Ways a clearer concept of teamwork and when it is useful |
| Fundamentals of Project Management and Time Management (In development) A review and overview of basic concepts and tools of optimizing use of available resources for project success |
| Developing Deliberate Leadership Approaching team leadership as a process of learning to invoke followership for strategic and ethical insights |
| Styles and Creativity Relating Kolb's learning styles to the facilitated steps of deliberate creativity |
| Cross Cultural Teamwork Building teams across cultural differences |
| Culture and Deliberate Team Creativity
Hofstede's Numbers Relating Hofstede's cultural styles to the facilitated steps of deliberate creativity |
| The Knowledge Creating Cycle Nonaka's description of the elements and phases of great product design |
| Brainstorming a review of the dynamics and rules of this frequently misapplied tool |
| What Do You Really Want to Do? Using the "black box" or "function" approach to accelerate insight and creativity |
| Unappreciated AHA: Why No One Listens to your Creative
Ideas. a basic description of our insight based model for creativity and some of its implications |
| Creative Problem Solving a proven plan of phase steps to guide creative efforts |
| Elephants and Coconuts: An Approach to Understanding Complex Topics |
| External Modeling The critical usefulness of external models in complex thinking and creativity |
| Fuzzy Logic and the Decision Matrix A quick exploration of fuzzy logic and its use in the criteria decision matrix. |
| Visualization and Imagery Basic methods for increasing your ability to develop mental imagery |
| Ethics and Values Based Management A Strategic Look at the Ethics and Values Issues Faced by Managers |
| Function Analysis and Modeling A workbook teaching this powerful analytic and creative tool. |