What is *Good Team, Bad Team* by Sarah Thurber and Blair Miller about?

*Good Team, Bad Team* provides a leadership toolkit grounded in cognitive diversity and problem-solving science. It introduces the FourSight System—a framework based on 6+ million data points—to help leaders manage team dynamics, resolve conflicts, and drive collaboration. The book contrasts how good teams (focused on challenges) and bad teams (stuck in infighting) operate, offering actionable strategies to align diverse thinkers.

Who should read *Good Team, Bad Team*?

This book is ideal for leaders, managers, and HR professionals seeking science-backed methods to improve team performance. It’s particularly valuable for those navigating cognitive diversity in fast-paced industries like tech, healthcare, or education. Entrepreneurs and team facilitators will also benefit from its practical exercises and case studies from organizations like NASA and Nike.

Is *Good Team, Bad Team* worth reading?

Yes—the book combines rigorous research with relatable examples, making it a standout in leadership literature. Its focus on the FourSight System and cognitive diversity offers fresh insights beyond typical team-building advice. Readers praise its actionable tools, such as problem-solving style assessments, to diagnose and fix team inefficiencies.

What is the FourSight System in *Good Team, Bad Team*?

The FourSight System identifies four problem-solving stages: **Clarify** (defining the problem), **Ideate** (generating solutions), **Develop** (refining ideas), and **Implement** (executing plans). Teams often stall when members prioritize different stages. The book provides strategies to align these preferences, helping leaders harness cognitive diversity for better outcomes—a framework validated by NASA, Nike, and the U.S. Navy SEALs.

How does *Good Team, Bad Team* address cognitive diversity?

Cognitive diversity refers to how individuals approach problems differently. Thurber and Miller explain that unmanaged diversity causes conflict, but structured through FourSight, it fuels innovation. The book teaches leaders to identify team members’ problem-solving styles (e.g., clarifiers vs. implementers) and create workflows that leverage these differences.

What real-world examples does *Good Team, Bad Team* use?

The authors cite Disney’s cross-departmental collaboration, Nike’s product innovation teams, and NASA’s crisis-response protocols. These cases show how aligning problem-solving styles prevents miscommunication and accelerates results. For example, NASA teams used FourSight to balance rapid ideation with meticulous risk assessment during missions.

How does *Good Team, Bad Team* help resolve team conflicts?

The book advises leaders to diagnose conflicting problem-solving styles (e.g., an ideator clashing with a developer) and refocus the team on shared goals. Tactics include structured brainstorming sessions, role clarity exercises, and “energy mapping” to redirect frustration toward challenges, not colleagues.

What are key quotes from *Good Team, Bad Team*?

1. **“Good teams aren’t perfect—they’re purposeful.”** Emphasizes aligning on objectives over seeking harmony. 2. **“Don’t follow your instincts—follow the science.”** Encourages data-driven leadership over gut feelings.

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The Power of Cognitive Diversity: Why Some Teams Soar While Others Crash

Picture this: A team meeting where everyone feels genuinely heard. Where different perspectives aren't just tolerated but actively sought out. Where the quiet analyst, the bold idea generator, the careful planner, and the action-oriented implementer all contribute their unique strengths to create solutions none could have developed alone. This isn't fantasy-it's what happens when leaders understand the science of cognitive diversity. Sarah Thurber and Blair Miller's "Good Team, Bad Team" has become a staple on executive bookshelves precisely because it offers something revolutionary: a practical framework for transforming team dynamics based not on personality types but on thinking preferences. Endorsed by Fortune 500 executives and startup founders alike, this book has helped thousands of organizations move from dysfunctional "storming" to high-performance collaboration by revealing the invisible patterns that make or break teams.

Capítulo 2

The Hidden Language of Team Dynamics

Leadership can be profoundly isolating when you're reluctant to share your shortcomings. I discovered this firsthand as a new managing partner, attempting to be "hands-on" by doing everything myself rather than delegating. This approach left me drowning in tasks and unable to focus on bigger goals. The irony? Most leaders are selected for being high performers, not for their ability to lead teams. My breakthrough came when I realized I needed to stop leading tasks and start leading people. Working with team-building experts, I discovered that productive teams require three essential elements: clear purpose, healthy team dynamics, and a shared problem-solving process. By hiring team members with diverse thinking styles who shared our company's purpose, we experienced sixfold growth. The fundamental challenge is that most leaders have too much to accomplish alone. The solution isn't cloning yourself-it's building a team that can solve challenges together. This means understanding your own thinking preferences and recognizing how they influence your leadership style. Your thinking preferences unconsciously dictate where you focus your energy. Leaders with different preferences naturally emphasize different aspects of leadership: Clarifiers focus on structure and defining problems; Ideators concentrate on vision and innovation; Developers optimize solutions with meticulous attention to detail; and Implementers drive for results with deadlines and action. Each preference brings strengths but also potential blind spots that can derail team performance if left unchecked. The most effective approach is "hands-in" leadership, which creates community by inviting meaningful contribution, unlike the "hands-on" approach that maintains tight control. When leaders ask people to contribute with challenging tasks that fit their skills, they create ownership and belonging. This requires patience and relinquishing some control-difficult for many leaders who value speed and efficiency-but creates sustainable teams where everyone feels invested.

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The Babel Effect: Why Smart Teams Make Dumb Mistakes

When team members approach problems differently, frustration inevitably follows. What feels like a personality conflict often stems from something more fundamental: thinking preferences-measurable differences in how people approach challenges. Research shows we need four distinct thinking types to solve complex problems effectively, yet most people naturally prefer some types over others. These preferences function like different problem-solving languages, creating a modern Tower of Babel in teamwork. We speak different cognitive languages in our heads, making collaboration difficult. We can't objectively examine our own thinking patterns-they feel normal to us-which is why we need tools to understand these differences. Gerard Puccio, chair of the Creativity and Change Leadership Department at Buffalo State University, discovered thinking preferences after noticing radically different reactions to the same problem-solving tool. His research revealed three critical insights: effective problem solving requires four distinct thinking types, people naturally prefer some types over others, and we gravitate toward those who share our preferences-meaning we often avoid the very people who could help us most. The universal problem-solving process-the FourSight Framework-requires four types of thinking: • Clarifiers work to understand challenges thoroughly, studying problems carefully and asking questions to close information gaps. • Ideators generate possibilities, powering up imagination to explore beyond obvious solutions. • Developers optimize solutions by weighing ideas, finding the best ones, and turning them into plans. • Implementers get into action, seeing what needs to be done and making it happen. When these different thinkers collaborate without understanding each other, cognitive "slugfests" ensue. People with different thinking preferences approach problems in fundamentally different ways. Clarifiers are factual, focused, and deliberate, sometimes suffering from "analysis paralysis." Ideators are adventurous, spontaneous, and playful, seeing big pictures but sometimes getting distracted. Developers are reflective, cautious, and planful, sometimes getting stuck pursuing perfection. Implementers are persistent, decisive, and action-oriented, sometimes rushing ahead too quickly. Understanding thinking preferences transforms collaboration. In one example, a clarifying superintendent and implementing board president realized their conflicts stemmed from different thinking styles, not personal antagonism. Similarly, a fire chief who delegated truck purchasing to an implementing rookie could have provided better guidance had he understood these differences. Thinking preferences provide positive labels for differences that might otherwise create conflict.

Capítulo 4

The Blind Spot Phenomenon: When Leadership Teams Fail

When a Sydney-based HR firm faced sudden revenue decline after LinkedIn's Australian launch, innovation consultant Dr. Ralph Kerle discovered a startling pattern in their leadership team: of 41 managers, 38 preferred implementation thinking, with only two preferring clarification and one ideation. This extreme homogeneity explained why no one had anticipated market disruption-they'd all been busy implementing rather than clarifying trends or ideating solutions. Teams reflect their members' combined thinking preferences, creating natural blind spots when preferences are too similar. When team members share thinking styles, they feel compatible because everyone focuses on the same aspects of problems while collectively overlooking others. This homogeneity feels comfortable but creates dangerous gaps in problem-solving capability. Leaders must be particularly cautious about surrounding themselves with like-minded thinkers, as they have power to hire, promote, and reward those who think similarly while dismissing those who don't-potentially creating teams vulnerable to significant blind spots. This favoritism extends beyond business. When teachers discover their thinking preferences, they gain profound insights about how they've been teaching. Math teachers who prefer to clarify realize they've been boring students with excessive information, while social studies teachers who prefer to implement understand why clarifier students constantly ask for more direction. Research shows teachers unconsciously favor students who share their thinking preferences, idealizing traits that match their own cognitive style. At a Canadian financial services company, a young, charismatic president with a strong ideation preference had gained industry recognition for innovative products. When his leadership team developed a strategic plan focusing on operational efficiency rather than more innovation, he initially rejected it. After the team confronted the president-framing his fixation on new products as a thinking preference rather than a personality flaw-he listened, checked his ego, and changed course. Leadership requires healthy ego to strive for greatness, but ego can convince you to defend your thinking preferences when you should be curious about others' perspectives. Cognitive diversity-differences in perspective and information processing-impacts team performance more significantly than age, ethnicity, or gender. However, cognitive diversity remains challenging because it's invisible and we unconsciously avoid it.

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Capítulo 5

Purpose: The Invisible Rudder That Guides Great Teams

A good team must have a clear purpose-something many smart leaders fail to establish. Purpose is one of three essential elements for productive teams. A team without clear purpose is like a rudderless boat-harder to steer and navigate. Many teams, even executive ones, struggle to articulate why they exist beyond their organization's mission statement. Etienne, newly promoted to lead a division bringing a billion-dollar discovery to market, inherited 150 mid-career professionals who had survived five corporate reorganizations. With impossible deadlines and fierce competition, he needed to transform their cautious mindset. Working with a consultant, Etienne had each functional team identify their purpose in simple terms anyone could understand, along with key questions they were addressing and an animal mascot. At an all-team meeting, this clarity created immediate excitement and collaboration. With everyone understanding how they contributed to the whole, the team achieved record-breaking patents and FDA approval. Clear purpose creates alignment, builds trust, and increases motivation. Bill Will, a camp director, exemplified good leadership by giving his junior counselors clear directions, challenging work, and autonomy, making them feel inspired and valued. In contrast, Blair's artist mother assigned yard tasks in an unstructured manner without clear purpose, leaving him frustrated. Leaders who prefer clarifying naturally enjoy higher trust from followers. When expectations aren't met, good leaders ask: "Was it their lack of effort or my lack of clarity?" A team charter helps establish purpose, answering questions before they're asked and connecting daily tasks to meaningful goals. Purpose has a shorter half-life than expected and must be communicated regularly. Jonathan Vehar, despite being a leadership coach, discovered this when his product development team stalled mid-project. A new team member had no idea of their purpose. Jonathan corrected course by starting every weekly meeting with the company mission and team purpose, despite complaints. The result? His team launched the most successful courses the company had seen in twenty years. Teams succeed on purpose-without it, they flounder.

Capítulo 6

The Physics of Trust: What You Give, You Get Back

Trust follows the laws of physics: whatever you give your team, they give back in equal measure. Shyla led a team of biomedical engineers supporting clinical trials for a medical device company. After building initial trust through intensive onboarding, Shyla's communication deteriorated when the company faced financial troubles. Rather than being transparent, she shared information selectively with team members. The engineers quickly discovered the inconsistencies, and trust eroded completely, leading nearly every new hire to seek employment elsewhere. Research by Paul J. Zak shows trust physically changes the brain, with high-trust companies reporting 74% less stress, 106% more energy, and 50% higher productivity. Leaders build trust by recognizing excellence, assigning achievable goals, giving discretion, letting people play to strengths, sharing information broadly, building relationships, and showing vulnerability. Gallup research reveals ignoring team members drops engagement by 40%-twice the impact of criticism. The key is to engage genuinely, praise liberally (aim for a 6:1 praise-to-criticism ratio), and know your people by name. Listening builds relationships and trust simultaneously. Research shows leaders skilled at listening generate more trust. Different thinking preferences affect listening styles: Clarifiers ask questions, Ideators seek big pictures, Developers offer improvements, and Implementers focus on action steps. Each style requires self-awareness to ensure others feel fully heard before responding. Trust builds in progressive layers: Safety forms the foundation (physical, psychological, emotional, financial); Clarity and transparency follow with honest communication; Belonging emerges when teams tackle meaningful challenges together; Respect means valuing differences, not just tolerating them; and Psychological safety-identified by Google's Project Aristotle as key to high performance-allows teams to harness diverse thinking and take on big challenges. Beyond trusting the leader, team members also need to trust each other for the team to truly thrive. Leaders like Jeri build trust by recognizing excellence, assigning challenging but achievable goals, giving people discretion in their work, letting them play to their strengths, sharing information broadly, building relationships intentionally, facilitating growth, showing vulnerability, and acknowledging people.

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Capítulo 7

Accelerating Team Development Through Understanding

Lena's team faced a trust crisis following a merger of two high-performing teams. Despite everyone being skilled professionals, collaboration had deteriorated into gossip and backbiting, especially challenging in their remote work environment. During their first in-person meeting, a workshop facilitator recognized they were stuck in the "storming" phase of team development. Bruce Tuckman's research identified distinct team development stages: forming (the honeymoon phase when everyone seeks commonality), storming (when power dynamics emerge and personalities clash), norming (when acceptable interaction patterns develop), performing (when collaboration thrives in psychological safety), re-forming (when membership changes reset the cycle), and closure (when the team's work concludes). Many teams get stuck in early stages-polite but conflict-avoidant in forming, tension-filled in storming, or functional but underperforming in norming. Team-building expert Doug Reid explained that trust issues often stem from thinking preferences-people may trust colleagues personally but not trust their problem-solving approaches. Research by Ashley Goodwin showed people prefer working with others who share their thinking preferences: Clarifiers want to work with Clarifiers and Developers, Developers with Developers and Clarifiers, Implementers only with other Implementers, while Ideators want to work with everyone (though not everyone wants to work with them). At Lena's workshop, the facilitator discovered the team was dominated by Clarifiers-people who need complete information before proceeding. The two "difficult" team members were actually those with different thinking preferences: Tyra (an Ideator) and Libby (an Implementer). Through structured activities, the team realized Tyra's constant idea generation wasn't a personality flaw but a thinking style that could be managed through better communication. Similarly, Libby's perceived "pushiness" was reframed as valuable implementation energy. After this breakthrough, the team gathered around Lena, sitting close together and openly discussing their differences with humor and understanding. Patrick Duhoux, pedagogical director of Dodeca, discovered how FourSight can accelerate team development: a common language speeds up forming, understanding thinking preferences eases storming, problem-solving tools enhance norming, and self-awareness with process-awareness helps teams excel in performing. Leaders can further accelerate development through specific actions at each stage, from creating team charters during forming to celebrating progress during performing.

Capítulo 8

Creating the Climate for Team Success

Unlike organizational culture, which takes years to develop, team climate can be rapidly influenced by leaders who control up to 67% of it. Goran Ekvall identified ten dimensions affecting team climate-nine positive and one negative. The positive dimensions include: Challenge and Involvement (finding work meaningful), Dynamism and Liveliness (positive energy), Playfulness and Humor (ease and spontaneity), Freedom (autonomy), Risk-Taking (moving forward despite uncertainty), Idea Time (space for creative thinking), Idea Support (curiosity about new proposals), Trust and Openness (psychological safety), and Debate (constructive challenging of ideas). The destructive dimension is Conflict-when tensions become personal with plotting, gossiping, and backstabbing. Blair created psychological safety in teams by using a simple "Suggestions for Working Together" handout listing observable, actionable behaviors rather than making rigid rules. This approach established trust without formal declarations and provided a North Star for teams when things went off track. When a new head coach named Aziz took over the author's high school field hockey team, he arrived with a secret agenda to groom twelve talented freshmen for a state championship. Instead of holding fair tryouts, he assigned teams by grade level, keeping his favorites together regardless of skill. He ignored parents' complaints, attempted to schedule an impractical tournament, and grew increasingly disorganized when thwarted. After Aziz abruptly quit mid-season, the author reluctantly stepped in as head coach, immediately establishing a collaborative approach by enlisting captains and assistant coaches to help. She recognized that while the team had a strong culture, it suffered from a terrible climate-which could be changed quickly with the right leadership approach. Leaders can transform teams by focusing on just a few key dimensions, as demonstrated by the author's experience turning around a struggling field hockey team by addressing challenge, trust, and conflict.

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The Secret Language of Problem-Solving

Challenges provide teams with purpose and satisfaction. As Teresa Amabile's research shows, making even small progress on difficult goals creates happiness. Challenges and teams have a symbiotic relationship-the right challenges bond people to common goals. Challenges come in four types: Simple (fun puzzles with right answers), Complicated (demanding but doable tasks requiring learning), Complex (multi-layered problems with multiple solutions), and Chaotic ("wicked" intractable global issues). As leadership level increases, challenge complexity rises too. While education prepares us for simple and complicated challenges, today's workplace demands skills for complex problem-solving. Technology has eliminated simple tasks, leaving even non-executive leaders facing complex challenges requiring critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. Given the surge in complex problem-solving demands, numerous processes have emerged in business. While they use different language and stages, they all share one unifying factor: they're powered by the same four types of thinking-clarify, ideate, develop, and implement. This explains why understanding thinking preferences is crucial-it reveals how people will engage with any problem-solving process you introduce. Different problem-solving methods serve different purposes. Design Thinking centers on user needs to create tested prototypes, emphasizing clarify and develop thinking. Lean Six Sigma combines waste reduction with quality improvement for operations, focusing on clarify and develop. Agile provides an iterative framework for software development using develop and implement thinking. Sprints are time-boxed exercises to rapidly create working prototypes using ideate and develop thinking. FourSight serves as a comprehensive system incorporating all four thinking types for complex problem solving. Mike Ackerbauer, a "cognitive sherpa" at IBM, navigates teams using different problem-solving languages. He uses the four thinking types as his decoder ring to connect various methodologies. Design thinking emphasizes clarifying user needs-crucial because designers naturally prefer ideating. Agile focuses on implementation-essential because IT developers tend to linger in development. FourSight stands out from personality assessments by providing both self-awareness and process-awareness, helping teams tackle challenges more effectively through understanding how people think when solving problems collaboratively.

Capítulo 10

Unleashing Creative Problem-Solving in Teams

The key to superior solutions lies in incorporating creative thinking into problem solving. In the 1950s, J.P. Guilford urged psychologists to study creativity, specifically how people add creative thinking to problem solving. He discovered that creative thinking requires more breathing room than linear thinking, pulsing between two movements: diverge and converge. Diverging expands thinking to generate numerous options, while converging evaluates these options to select the best ones. This process needs psychological safety, with specific guidelines for each phase: when diverging, defer judgment, strive for quantity, build on others, and seek wild alternatives; when converging, be affirmative, check objectives, be deliberate, and preserve novelty. Divergent thinking is a core leadership competency that produces better solutions and more devoted followers. Military research shows it's more predictive of leadership success than experience or intelligence, and significantly predicts promotion to higher ranks. When collaborating, diverging before converging leads to superior outcomes. Greg Sonbuchner, FourSight's tech lead, demonstrates this by having his IT team mock up multiple options before making decisions, allowing time to refine and improve rather than rushing to implement. Bad meetings become verbal volleys where the first idea gets debated, egos become involved, and only the loudest voices are heard. Good meetings phrase problems as questions, allow everyone to diverge on ideas, build on them, then converge on the best ones. Research from the Center for Applied Imagination found that groups trained to separate divergent and convergent thinking improved output quality and quantity by 300 percent. Two problem-solving tools stand out as most valuable for leaders tackling challenges. First, phrase challenges as questions. When Deanie's team insisted they couldn't execute a product sampling with only $1,000 of a $10,000 budget, she reframed it: "How might we make the sampling happen on time and with the budget we have?" This simple technique works because questions engage the brain's problem-solving capacity, while negative statements trigger stress responses. Second, use the POINt evaluation tool (Pluses, Opportunities, Issues, New thinking) to strengthen ideas while building relationships. Instead of immediately criticizing new ideas, first acknowledge their value through four steps: what's good about it, what might be possible, concerns phrased as questions, and generating ideas to address issues. This approach takes no more time than standard critiques but produces better results with fewer hurt feelings.

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Transforming Conflict into Connection

When team conflicts arise, they often happen unexpectedly over seemingly minor issues. New team leader Frances confronted Craig for leaving a meeting cleanup, publicly questioning his behavior and creating tension throughout the office. Such emotional upsets can derail productive work as evolution has conditioned humans to react with specific responses when conflicts emerge: flight (avoiding the issue), fight (responding aggressively), or freeze (ignoring the problem). Instead of these instinctive reactions, effective leaders learn to pause, breathe, and approach situations with curiosity rather than judgment. Thinking preferences influence how people express emotional distress-clarifiers disengage, ideators emote dramatically, developers become critical, and implementers try to take control. The Situation Behavior Impact (SBI) method provides a structured approach for addressing breakdowns: identify the specific situation, describe the behavior objectively, share the emotional impact it had on you, and listen to understand the other person's perspective. Frances learned that Craig left cleanup because his son was injured at school-information that completely changed her interpretation of his actions. Good feedback involves owning your emotions ("I felt disrespected") rather than blaming others ("You showed no respect"). Different thinking preferences also affect how people respond to change. Clarifiers tend to see problems and pitfalls, taking a wait-and-see approach; they need facts and time to adjust. Ideators often welcome change, seeing opportunities and adapting easily; they need a vision and chance to contribute ideas. Developers react cautiously, questioning the need for change; they need logical explanations and time to evaluate. Implementers accept change readily and want to take immediate action; they need to understand personal benefits and have clear action plans. After addressing emotional challenges, effective leaders debrief by asking: What went well? What would you do differently? What did you learn? What learning will you apply next time? Good feedback should be direct, specific, behavior-focused (not personality-focused), well-timed, appropriately limited, clearly communicated, and balanced with positive feedback.

Capítulo 12

The Good Team Challenge: From Disconnection to Purpose

Despite our technologically connected world, we've never felt more disconnected-more "dissed" (from Latin meaning "lack of, apart, asunder"). But we now have tools to change that in our own teams by articulating clear purpose, building trust, and leading inclusive problem-solving processes. Imagine a world where everyone has the chance to be part of a good team. Following a problem-solving path, we can align people with clear purpose, understand their hopes and fears, and give them a common language for solving complex challenges. The approach is straightforward: learn what team members care about, understand thinking preferences, clarify team purpose, build trust through meaningful challenges, and use shared problem-solving processes. This approach fights against disconnection by building purpose-driven teams that make the world better. Dennis Carter, nearing retirement after 30+ years at a Buffalo manufacturing plant, lost his dream organizational development job during corporate downsizing. The plant manager offered him the only remaining position: managing the notorious night shift waste management crew-the "ultimate demotion" supervising workers with attitude problems who were one step from termination. Dennis embraced this challenge, getting to know each team member's strengths, hobbies, and financial obligations. He gathered the team and confronted their precarious situation, then proposed transforming their reputation by responding to all requests with "We'll take care of that." He established their purpose as problem-solvers and helped them tackle challenges together without solving problems for them. Within two years, his once-notorious team had developed pride in their work and transformed their reputation. When the next downsizing came, not a single member was laid off, and Dennis retired to his dream home having successfully created a good team from those deemed most likely to fail-by combining purpose, trust, and process. These aren't just leadership skills but human skills that can help lead not just a good team, but a good life. The journey to building a good team begins with a single step-trying just one promising idea and seeing where it leads. In a world increasingly defined by division and disconnection, the ability to bring diverse minds together to solve shared challenges may be the most essential skill of all.

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Citas de Buen equipo, mal equipo

Leadership can be profoundly isolating when you're reluctant to share your shortcomings.
When team members approach problems differently, frustration inevitably follows.
We speak different cognitive languages in our heads, making collaboration difficult.
Leaders must be particularly cautious about surrounding themselves with like-minded thinkers.

Personajes en Buen equipo, mal equipo

Sarah ThurberAuthor and expert on cognitive diversity
Blair MillerAuthor and expert on team dynamics
Gerard PuccioResearcher who discovered thinking preferences

Sobre el Autor

Sarah Thurber y Blair Miller, coautoras de Good Team, Bad Team: Lead Your People to Go After Big Challenges, Not Each Other, son reconocidas expertas en liderazgo y pioneras en la investigación de la diversidad cognitiva. Basándose en décadas de experiencia en la formación de equipos y la resolución creativa de problemas, su trabajo tiende un puente entre la investigación académica y las estrategias organizacionales prácticas.

Thurber, socia directora de FourSight, y Miller, doctora y profesora adjunta en el Centro de Imaginación Aplicada de la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York en Buffalo (SUNY), desarrollaron el marco FourSight, una herramienta reconocida mundialmente para mejorar la creatividad y la colaboración en equipo. Sus métodos han sido implementados por empresas de la lista Fortune 500 como Mars y Kraft, generando más de 1.500 millones de dólares en ahorros operativos.

La experiencia del dúo en dinámicas laborales e innovación se refleja también en sus obras coescritas, que incluyen The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker y Creativity Unbound. Miller, galardonada con el Premio al Liderazgo Distinguido de la Creative Education Foundation, y Thurber han aparecido en la revista Inc. y en diversos podcasts por sus enfoques transformadores del rendimiento de los equipos. Good Team, Bad Team debutó como el lanzamiento número uno en ventas en Amazon, consolidando su estatus como líderes de opinión en el desarrollo organizacional.

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