The very best firms today are poietic organizations; thatis, they are exceptional at streamlining the processes ofideation, creation, and production. These poietic organizationsdo two things well: They design and develop highpower teams, and they create an organizational cultureand contextthat supports improvisation, design, experimentation, aesthetic awareness, and strengths development. Great teams exhibit the same characteristics-trust, commitment, and energy. Inside you'll learn how to design and develop creativehigh power teams and organizations by first assessing teammember strengths using personality factors and multipleintelligences theory. Following these assessments, how tobest represent and share this information to promote teamdevelopment is illustrated, while examining three typesof high performance teams-improvisational, design, andresearch teams. The second half of this book focuses onthe major models upon which organizations are built, thepros and cons of these choices, and strategy. Using currentresearch, examples and cases, the author articulates waysto transform your organization into a high power andpoietic organization. | Designing Creative High Power Teams and Organizations by Eric W Stein, Paperback | Indigo Chapters