More Lightning, Less Thunder: How to Energize Innovation Teams

More Lightning, Less Thunder: How to Energize Innovation Teams Introduces the fundamental behaviors and specific attitudes necessary to function in a team environment. It's designed to help you work more effectively with others to create innovative results and bottom-line improvements. Mere tools and techniques are not enough to change the way people and organizations work together. Innovation demands that individuals adopt specific behaviors and attitudes in order to flourish within teams. This book shares how to spark your brain and your teams to generate more creative results. So read on and find out how to wire your brain to work with other brains to achieve success!

Jonathan Vehar and Robert "Bob" Eckert: are Senior Partners at New & Improved, a consulting company that works with a range of organizations to create Innovation Teams: teams who work together productively to create innovation. Their quick wit, piercing insights and commitment to excellence create powerful programs in the areas of creative thinking, team development, strategic planning, creative problem solving, leadership development and meeting facilitation.

Some of the organizations to benefit from their training and facilitation include: Andersen Consulting; Clorox; Deloitte & Touché; Ford; General Mills; Kodak; Kraft; Merck; Nestle; New York State Department of State; Nokia; Pfizer; Xerox; and the US Navy, as well as many social service agencies and school systems.

Jonathan was formerly the Director of Training and Consulting for the Creative Education Foundation and prior to that worked in the field of advertising and marketing. He holds a Master's Degree in Creativity and Innovation from the State University of New York. They are both regular instructors at the Creative Problem Solving Institute.

Bob speaks from a background which includes: management experience in both manufacturing and retail, work as a family therapist, creation/direction of the nationally renowned Leadership and Healthy Lifestyles program, teaching in both youth and adult criminal justice systems, and work as a senior "Outward Bound" instructor for incarcerated juveniles. He is on the design team for the Creative Education Foundation's Global Odyssey program.