TEAM PROBLEM SOLVING GIVEN THE NEW CORPORATE REALITIES

Dr. Paul A. Johnson

The “ideal team” evolves, over time, into “one brain.” Today most effective leaders are increasingly discovering the need to assume a facilitative, rather than a supervisory mentality and style with their team(s). To create effective teams, members must realize their deep interdependence on one-another to enable collective learning and collective innovation/creativity to happen. Businesses today need to learn and internalize TRIZ methodology but the “customer” is impatient and demanding of immediate gratification. Seems that TRIZ facilitators must become experts on leveraging “team process,” along with knowing how to get an audience and then manage the politics of complex corporations. Keep in mind, however, that team-based organizations are vastly different than the traditional (power-based) organizations that many of us grew-up with.