Building a Better Business Using the Lego Serious Play Method E-Book

Per Kristiansen

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 272

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Unleash innovation potential with creative, serious play Building a Better Business Using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Method delivers a creative approach to enhancing innovation and improving business performance, with the focus on unleashing play. Written by the two original Master Trainers for LEGO SERIOUS PLAY (LSP), the book outlines how LSP can develop teams, people, relationships and business . Based on the merging of play with organizational development, systems thinking and strategy development, LSP can foster improved meetings, faster innovation processes, team growth, and better communication. The belief that everyone intends to "do good" and has the potential to do it is at the heart of LSP. The method nurtures the idea that everyone in an organization can contribute to discussions and outcomes. Building with LEGO bricks is a type of creative play that triggers a different kind of thought process, unleashing imagination and potential that is frequently untapped by the logical mind. The book explains this hands-on, minds-on approach, and discusses the theory as well as the practical implementation of LSP. Topics include: * Observation of internal and external interaction dynamics * Fostering a free and honest exchange of opinions * Suspending hierarchy for better, more effective communication * Facilitating change by encouraging exploration The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY method is employed by start-ups and multinational corporations alike to maximize synergy among teams and throughout organizations. For leaders looking to boost effectiveness and see better results, Building a Better Business Using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Method is a comprehensive introduction to this creative management technique.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Introduction—The Journey!

Part I: The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Territory

Chapter 1: The Need for Building Better Businesses

Beyond 20/80 and Creating Leaning In

Leading in Order to Unlock

Breaking Habitual Thinking

Contemplating the Needs

Notes

Chapter 2: The LEGO® Brick

Using the LEGO Brick outside the Playroom

The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Use of the LEGO Brick

The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Kits

Notes

Chapter 3: Defining Serious Play

Introduction to Play

Serious Play Defined

Resources

Notes

Chapter 4: The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Method

The Core Process

The Seven Application Techniques

The Facilitator Traps

Applying the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Method

Chapter 5: Contemplating the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Territory

The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Etiquette

Part II: LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®: The Science Platform

Chapter 6: Building Knowledge—Giving Your Mind a Hand

Building Knowledge by Building Things in the World

Concrete Thinking versus Formal Abstract Thinking

Using the Hand as the Leading Edge of the Mind

Notes

Chapter 7: Neuroscience—Understanding the Builder's Mind

Attention

Memory Formation and Retention

Memory and Attention: Two More Observations

Developing Insight

Notes

Chapter 8: Flow—The Joy of Effective Learning

Flow and the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Method

Notes

Chapter 9: Imagination—Seeing What Is Not

Descriptive Imagination: Making Sense of Things

Creative Imagination: Creating Something New?

Challenging Imagination: Challenge and Destruction

Strategic Imagination

Notes

Chapter 10: Play Is about Process

The Benefits of Play

More on Play

Applying Serious Play in a Workshop

Notes

Part III: LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® at Work

Chapter 11: LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® at Work in Business

Bird's-Eye Lens 1: The Market Uses LEGO SERIOUS PLAY to Get People to Lean Forward

Bird's-Eye Lens 2: The Market Uses LEGO SERIOUS PLAY for Enterprise, Team, and Personal Development

Bird's-Eye Lens 3: The Market Uses LEGO SERIOUS PLAY for Complex, Dynamic Challenges

Bird's-Eye Lens 4: The Market Uses LEGO SERIOUS PLAY to Bridge Diversity

Examples of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY at Work

Misconceptions

Chapter 12: LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® at Work in the LEGO Company

Examples of Use within the LEGO Company

Chapter 13: LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® at Work outside Business

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY in Education

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY in Research

Notes

Chapter 14: Contemplating LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® at Work

It Works across a Very Broad Range of Industries and Areas

It Works for Every Person in Any Culture

All Workshops Are Customized

Pitfalls

Chapter 15: Pushing the Boundaries with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®

Pushing Past the Challenges of Dynamic Complexity

Pushing Past Death by Data

Pushing Past “What Got You Here Won't Get Me There”

Pushing Past High-Tech Myopia

Pushing Past Hero Leadership

Pushing Past Relying on Individual Genius

Pushing Past the Carrot-and-Stick Approach

Notes

About the Authors

Index

End User License Agreement

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Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction—The Journey!

Part I: The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Territory

Begin Reading

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BUILDING A BETTER BUSINESS USING THE LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® METHOD

Per Kristiansen

Robert Rasmussen

Cover illustration and design: C. Wallace

Copyright © 2014 by Per Kristiansen, Robert Rasmussen. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Kristiansen, Per.

Building a better business using the Lego serious play method / Per Kristiansen, Robert Rasmussen.

pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-118-83245-5 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-118-93136-3 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-93137-0 (ebk)

1. Creative ability in business. 2. Teams in the workplace. 3. LEGO toys. I. Rasmussen, Robert, 1946- II. Title.

HD53.K75 2014

658.4'022—dc23

2014012279