{"71022":{"#nid":"71022","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Study: Individual Personal Ties Strengthen Teams\u0027 Overall Creativity","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith more employees working in teams, it\u0027s critical for companies to find ways to enable these teams be more creative in their work.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough creative ideas occur in the minds of individuals, ways of thinking about and approaching problems can be jointly developed by the team, according to a recent article in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal by Christina Shalley, professor of organizational behavior at Georgia Tech, and Jill Perry-Smith, assistant professor of organization and management at Emory University.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETitled \u0022The emergence of team creative cognition: the role of diverse outside ties, sociocognitive network centrality, and team evolution,\u0022 their article explores how imagination, insight, and creative ideas develop, evolve, and spread from one team member to another, ultimately increasing the team\u0027s ability to think creatively about a range of problems. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn essence, there is a team mindset that is greater than the sum of individual team members. When this synergistic process occurs, teams have the capacity to achieve high levels of creativity.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EShalley and Perry-Smith develop the concept of \u0022team creative cognition,\u0022 which refers to a shared repertoire of cognitive processes among team members that provides a framework for how the team approaches problems creatively.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Specifically, we propose that diverse personal ties outside of the team shape and strengthen individual team member\u0027s creative muscle, and that this individual creative cognition is infused within the team\u0027ultimately resulting in team creative cognition,\u0022 write the authors.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"With more employees working in teams, it\u0027s critical for companies to find ways to enable these teams be more creative in their work.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech professor researching the emergence of team creative cognit"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2008-09-05 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:15","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-09-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-09-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71023":{"id":"71023","type":"image","title":"Cristina Shalley","body":null,"created":"1449177338","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:38","changed":"1475894628","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:48"}},"media_ids":["71023"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/mgt.gatech.edu\/index.html","title":"College of Management"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1072","name":"Business"},{"id":"2014","name":"Cognition"},{"id":"2013","name":"Creative"},{"id":"14652","name":"Georgia TechCollege of Managemen"},{"id":"1052","name":"Management"},{"id":"3971","name":"t"},{"id":"2012","name":"Team"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBrad Dixon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECollege of Management\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brad.dixon@mgt.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Brad Dixon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-3943\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["brad.dixon@mgt.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}