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The must-read summary of Keith Sawyer's book: "Group Genius: the Creative Power of Collaboration".
This complete summary of the ideas from Keith Sawyer's book "Group Genius" shows how collaboration is the real secret to breakthrough creativity. In his book, Keith Sawyer reveals that new ideas actually emerge from the bottom-up, from the creative efforts of a large number of people, each of whom nudges the idea forward or adds a little twist. What finally comes out the other end of the creative process is an idea which cannot truthfully be said to be the exclusive result of any one person’s thinking. By reading this summary, you will learn how to generate innovation, making it possible and feasible for everyone to collaborate on developing new ideas.
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To learn more, read "Group Genius" and discover how you can create a working environment that encourages innovation through group thinking.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013
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Book PresentationGroup Genius by Keith Sawyer
Book Abstract
About the Author
Important Note About This Ebook
Summary of Group Genius (Keith Sawyer)
Part 1. The Highly Impressive Creative Power of Group Collaboration
Part 2. How Group Collaboration Works in Real-World Situations
Part 3. How to Build a Genuinely Collaborative World-Class Organization
Book PresentationGroup Genius by Keith Sawyer
Book Abstract
MAIN IDEA
Collaboration is the real secret to breakthrough creativity – not a lone genius having an “Aha!” flash of inspiration.
Genuinely new ideas are never the brainchild of a single person. Instead, they emerge bottom up from the creative efforts of a large number of people, each of whom nudge the idea forward or add a little twist here or there. What finally comes out the other end of the creative process is an idea which cannot truthfully be said to be the exclusive result of any one person’s thinking. Instead, all kinds of different people have added a little bit here and deleted what doesn’t work over there.
From an organizational perspective, if you want to generate more earth-shattering innovations, make it easier for people to work together on new ideas. Install collaboration as the central framework of your innovation projects, and don’t forget to invite your customers and your peers to be part of the overall process. Find new and better ways to help people collaborate using emerging communication technology and you will be well positioned to see some highly creative ideas come forward.
Above all, don’t delegate the responsibility for being innovative to some research and development unit or other designated part of your organization. Instead, make it possible and feasible for everyone to collaborate on developing new ideas. That’s the only way you can fully utilize the combined brain power of your people to best effect.
“Innovation is what drives today’s economy, and our hopes for the future – as individuals and organizations – lie in finding creative solutions to pressing problems. My goal is to reveal the unique power of collaboration to generate innovation. And it’s my hope that you’ll use these new insights about group genius to create more effective collaborations in your own life – at work, at home and in your community. We can all tap into the creative power of collaboration to make our own insights more frequent and more successful. Forget the myths about historical inventors: the truth is always a story of group genius. And today’s innovations emerge from ever more complex organizations and many interacting teams. Group genius creates today’s cutting-edge products.”
– Keith Sawyer
About the Author
KEITH SAWYER is associate professor of education and psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of ten books on creativity including Explaining Creativity and Creative Conversations. In addition to his research, Dr. Sawyer has experience as a management consultant, as a video game designer and as a successful public speaker.
The Web site for this book is at www.groupgenius.net.
Important Note About This Ebook
This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.
Summary of Group Genius (Keith Sawyer)
Part 1. The Highly Impressive Creative Power of Group Collaboration
Although crediting an individual for an innovation is a tidy and simple way to do things, the reality is most significant innovations which come about are actually an amalgamation of the thoughts and ideas of lots of different people. When people pool their talents and ideas in a group setting, some highly creative ideas can be generated. If the group is allowed to improvise by having the goal specified but the means left entirely open, it’s not at all unusual for some exceptionally creative approaches to get suggested and ultimately implemented.
Group collaboration has loads of untapped potential. You just have to develop some workable ways to channel this creative force in the right direction.
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright flew an airplane in a 12-second flight which landed him around 100 feet from where he took off from a beach in North Carolina. In doing so, Orville and his brother Wilbur beat leading scientists who had invested fortunes in funding and trying to win an international race to build the first airplane. Their achievement is typically cast as a breakthrough the two brothers came up with alone but in reality the Wrights achieved their feat by drawing on the power of collaboration rather than being limited by their own thinking.
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