Improv techniques to help team-building

I recently picked up a book called Blink by Malcom Gladwell (it’s by the same guy who wrote The Tipping Point). There’s a section in one of his chapters about structured spontaneity. What he means is that it’s possible to make good instantaneous decisions when you have a structured approach. In this chapter, Gladwell describes an improv troupe based out of New York City called Mother. Although their plays are entirely spontaneous – no rehearsal, no preparation, they are always hysterical and successful because the group operates under one simple rule: you must accept all possibilities.