Turning a Corner with Turner Broadcasting Co.

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 ‘Tis the season to be gaming. And many great games were played during a recent 2-day Gamestorming session with Turner Broadcasting Co. in Atlanta, GA. We were thrilled to be invited by the Strategy Development AYAKM group to host their offsite this year. The offsite was designed to support a work-flow transformation for a small but super-dynamo internal consulting team. (Repeat after me: Cartoon Network and Adult Swim rock.) This was arguably one of our most challenging gamestorms for a group because the burden of the thinking wasn’t carried by the games. (Although, technically, it rarely is.) But this team was asked to put on some serious deep-thinking caps so they could articulate not only a new vision for their high-performance team, but also a new method of orchestrating highly complex and multi-stakeholder projects. Thankfully, quick thinking and VISUAL thinking seemed second nature, so we moved through a ton of games in a short period of time and ultimately met the goal of the offsite. And now, after all that, I’m gonna go watch me some Robot Chicken.

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