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A great resource for ideas on reinventing organizations, 12 Dec 1998
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This review is from: Collaborative Creativity: Unleashing the Power of Shared Thinking (Paperback)
I read this book and used it for a community college seminar I taught Spring 1998. While the focus of the seminar was rather broad, including music, computers, scientific process and creative exercises, an underlying theme was simply collaboration: working in teams to accomplish a semester task. The students were a highly competitive group and getting them to work at a common goal was a terrific challenge.
I used the book as a resource for those problems that arose between students, trying to help them understand why collaboration could work and why it is important. I found the author to be witty, succinct, and read the entire collection of 72 essays drawn from business, the arts and sciences over and over through the term. Ricchiuto describes how the best ideas are "harvested in the garden of shared minds". Some of the more relevant topics for the course are listed below:
* Reinventing organizations to be more inventive * Collaboration technology * When you're not the facilitator * Two tips on teams * We are smarter together than we are apart
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Ricchiuto Rattles Our Resistance!, 23 Mar 1998
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This review is from: Collaborative Creativity: Unleashing the Power of Shared Thinking (Paperback)
Everyone who hates being on a team should read this book. Ricchiuto challenges our sensibilities by providing compelling illustrations of collaborative success stories. He combines the wisdom of those who have gone before us with his own field insights. His is a world of creativity and happy surprise. You will find yourself quoting this one.
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A must-have for organizations that need to innovate., 21 Mar 1998
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As a resource to help companies unleash their creativity, this book is a must. In easy-to- understand terms, the author identifies creative cultures and through a novel "idea garden" approach offers a tool to enable groups to reach creativity goals, painlessly.
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