FourSight tools provide practical methods to harness the strengths of each thinking style. Here’s how they enhance creative problem solving and innovation:

In one of Matthew McConaughey’s latest movies “The Englishmen,” the movie opens to a scene where he is sitting comfortably at a table in his pub. As the leader and kingpin of his organization, he feels extremely safe in his establishment. Then, in the background we see a silent assassin pull out a gun with a silencer, point it at McConaughey’s character Michael Pearson, a shot rings out, and the scene fades out (Richie, 2019). Unresolved conflict is a silent killer of lead

15 Easy Ways to Bust Work Stress The average American man works 8.73 hours per day. If you feel like you need 8.7 hours in a day just to meet all of your deadlines, then you have a bigger problem than drowning under your inbox: You're setting yourself up for heart disease, finds a new study published online today in The Lancet. The study looked at workers under "job strain." That's just a fancy way of saying that you 1) have piles of work to do, and 2) feel like you have zer

This past year I have talked with a couple of hundred people from all generations. When I ask Traditionalists and Baby Boomers about servant-based leadership, most of them scoff. When I ask Gen X about it, they say they’ve heard about it, think for the most part it has good qualities, and wish that their bosses afforded them the personal appreciation that comes along with it. When I ask Millennials and Gen Z, the first thing they do is ask what it is. I explain it this way, i

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects, “between 2014 and 2024, 36.4 million workers will enter the labor force, and 28.6 million will leave”. Its statistics reveal that the makeup of the workforce is changing; it is getting older. Considering the changes coming and the effects they will have on team power, leaders need to re-evaluate their current workgroup makeup. If the team mix doesn’t represent members from all stages of life and different skillsets, change it. St

The more a company moves toward and enters into innovation, sustainability becomes a part of the fabric and culture of the organizational culture. Company's are expanding the role of Chief Sustainability Officer at an ever-increasing rate. They are finding that the CSO's strategic role in corporate governance is more and more important in the public's eyes as well as investors. The expanding role of CSO's is influencing, empowering, and enabling companies to structure thems

If implemented correctly the innovations and changes created through continuous improvement Value Stream Organizational (VSO) Leadership will: Raise customer satisfaction. Increase customer acquisition rates. Increase customer retention rates. Re-invent the way you market your services. Acquire larger more profitable sales accounts. Improve production quality. Reduce defects and waste. Reduce and control manufacturing costs. Waste and customer satisfaction issues are silent p

Millennials and Gen Z are not a disconnected group of people who only have their sights set on fulfilling their own needs. They are passionate, adventurous, team-oriented, and socially-minded. They grew up learning and studying in teams and expect to work in teams. By understanding group dynamics and using teaming models such as FourSight™, companies such as IBM, NASA, USBank, L'Oréal, Nike, and many others have unlocked latent team power. Employee potential, creativity, inno

As a part of the next phase in management evolution, the differences between those who lead using closed-system versus open-system methods will become blatantly clear. The more mature you grow as a leader, the more you will view the workplace and organizations as systems. Every aspect of organizational life and business process intertwine with one another. They create a network of systems or a meta-system. A change in one system will have a reactive change in another. Organiz

System thinking looks at the whole system, its parts, transforming functions, and outcomes, i.e., holistically. The system is the sum of its interconnected parts. If the systems’ components are not maintained and updated, they become outdated, worn, and eventually irrelevant as technologies advance. System thinking is the foundation for understanding how to create business value. As a people leader, it is your role to understand the system and how those you lead fit into

Appreciative Inquiry (AI). It is a set of skills based on positive psychology and the idea of creating a safe environment where people feel free to share and contribute. It is a positive, healthy leadership strategy and all of the generations are drawn to it. America’s culture of freedom connects all the generations in the American workforce. Our free market system is what made our economy the greatest on earth. Current and emerging leaders should develop these skills. AI sk

In 2013, a professor asked a group of university students to collaborate on a project. After completing it, the professor asked them to provide an independent private evaluation of their group peers. Incredibly, all five group members gave each other the same rating in every category! The professor scolded them, asking why they had given each other the same ratings. The leader responded by telling the professor, “Your instructions were contradictory to everything you’ve taugh

Imagine it’s a typical day in the office, and Monday morning's 11:00 am team meeting has just ended...Bob and Bill, a Boomer and a Gen Xer leave angrily... “Bill, what heck the was that?! These damn Millennials are so arrogant it’s unbelievable, can you believe Arden just let his team run off at the mouth. Does he think he can come in here and take over?” Bill responds, “I hear ya, Bob. He’s the FNG! Who does he think he is? They all think they’re entitled to everything

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