Career Innovation

In today’s hypercompetitive business environment, the difference between winning and losing is often slight. It’s like a race, where the fastest runner who crosses the line just one step ahead of the pack is victorious—and the number two finisher is quickly forgotten.

The Zero in Formula, Dennis Geelen's latest book, challenges business owners, CEO's, and leaders to think differently about their company. The stats don't lie. A large percentage of businesses do not make it past the first few years. Of the ones that do, only a small percentage end up surviving past 15 years. Many of those that survive have now plateaued or are in decline. You will learn what it means to be customer centric, with strategies and tools you can apply to your business. You will be guided through the recipe step-by-step to build your successful foundation.

Are you looking for a proven method that allows your company to achieve continuous improvement, maximize production, and excel in management and leadership? How is a winning startup born? How does it grow and innovate? If you want to start a startup, you need to identify a gap in the market and fill it effectively using time and resources, track and optimize data through market analysis to capture consumer demand, and above all, manage continuous innovation.

Ninja Future is an essential listen for businesses and individuals striving to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving world: Gary Shapiro, the president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, casts his eye toward the future, charting how the innovative technologies of today will transform not only the way business is done, but society itself.

In the context of global economic recession, fear has become institutionalized in many organizations, both in the private and public sectors. Board directors are under pressure from shareholders, senior executives are attempting to maintain sales in a nervous market and many people are concerned about job security and maintaining their living standards. The Psychology of Fear in Organizations shows how fear manifests itself in large organizations and how it impacts on the workforce.

There is perhaps no leadership challenge more daunting than managing creativity - and more urgent than delivering breakthrough innovation. How do you harness some of the most passionate, intelligent people in your organization without stifling them? How do you simultaneously unleash their energy and channel it into something tangible? Lina Echeverría offers seven proven principles through which new ideas come to fruition, from unleashing passion and drive, and embracing productive conflict, to emphasizing excellence and structure while living values that liberate creativity.

You always knew digital was going to change things, but you didn’t realize how close to home it would hit. In every industry, digital competitors are taking advantage of new platforms, tools, and relationships to undercut rivals, get closer to customers, and disrupt the usual ways of doing business. The only way to compete is to evolve. James McQuivey of Forrester Research has been teaching people how to do this for more than a decade. He’s gone into the biggest companies, even in traditional industries like insurance and consumer packaged goods, and changed the way they think about innovation.

Zu Anfang scheint es sich bei diesem Werk um eine literarisch unterhaltsame Untersuchung zu handeln, doch nebenbei ist es auch eine Anleitung für neue Denkweisen. Ist es möglich Denken selbst zu einem sinnlichen Vergnügen zu machen? Mit Siegels sieben Schritten und Thinking-Tools zu neuen Denkansätzen auf jeden Fall! Und dazu bringt sie dem Leser auch noch bei eine Unternehmenskultur des kreativen Denkens nicht nur zu entwickeln sondern auch zu verwirklichen. Denn jedes Business startet mit einer Idee, die nur richtig umgesetzt werden muss.

Master the skills to address your biggest communication challenges at work. This audiobook provides tools and approaches you and your team can immediately apply to get the results you desire.

In BoxBreakers!, author and innovation consultant Fredda McDonald shares her experiences and insight gained from working with some of the world's most innovative companies, such as The Coca-Cola Company, MasterCard, and the International Olympic Committee, to name a few. You'll hear about the challenges many of the new industry disrupters have faced and the creative ways they have met them.

For too long, companies and their leadership teams focused primarily on their products or services. Leaders are deeply dialed into the minutiae of their companies' operations. But veteran Silicon Valley consultant Deborah Perry Piscione says investments in new technologies or operations do not create innovations - people do.

Turn creativity from a hit-or-miss proposition into something you can count on with this highly-praised program. Its co-authors, Alan G. Robinson and Sam Stern, are top thinkers in the field of corporate creativity and together they have advised dozens of major organizations in the United States and abroad.

Was Sie jetzt tun müssen, um Ihr Geschäft zukunftssicher zu machen. Der Masterplan für die Zukunft Ihres Business′ vom führenden Experten zum Thema Zukunftsmanagement. Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der nichts mehr voraussagbar und kein Unternehmen oder Job mehr sicher ist. Viele Unternehmen, gerade im Mittelstand, blicken voller Sorge in die Zukunft, denn sie drohen mehr denn je gegenüber China, den USA und den disruptiven Startups zurückzufallen. Wir entwickeln fleißig Innovationen und melden Patente an, doch die Umsetzung und der Umsatz finden woanders statt.

Using real-life practical experiences, serial entrepreneur and thought leader Faisal Hoque teams up with journalist Drake Baer to provide a personal and professional playbook that is part philosophy, part business, and part history. Everything Connects offers the wisdom of 2,500-year-old Eastern philosophies and the interconnected insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Couple that with Fortune 100 corporate cross pollination for creativity and startup thinking for how to adapt with ease, and you'll quickly discover that everything connects.

Today when the competition, technology, and the economy are evolving faster than ever before, organizations and the people like us who work in them need a proven approach to help us adapt - and succeed. The key, according to Paul B. Brown, is to think like an entrepreneur, no matter what your position or industry. What works for the most successful entrepreneurs will work for us, Brown argues, whether we want to stay employed working for someone else or are thinking of going off on our own.

Flat, Fluid, and Fast delivers the tactics and strategies you need to create a disruption-proof company during the talent mobility revolution. It walks you through the entire process, providing expert advice on new ways to draw top talent to your company, implement new training programs, create employee mobility plans, design innovative career paths for staff, leverage contractors and other contingent workers, and operate an adaptable organization for long-term success.

Der New York Times Bestseller, der in über zehn Sprachen übersetzt wurde! Das wegweisende Werk „The Innovator’s Dilemma“ zählt heute zu den wichtigsten Managementbüchern überhaupt. Warum versagen großartige Unternehmen im Wettbewerb um Innovationen, obwohl sie alles richtig machen? Warum erweisen sich die klassischen Erfolgsfaktoren wie Kunden-, Ertrags- und Wachstumsorientierung bei disruptiven Innovationen als geradezu gefährlich und existenzbedrohend?

You will learn how design and innovation are being impacted by new and emerging technologies, societal demands, cultural shifts, and broader world issues. The Future of Design is practical, concise, and includes guidelines for building and supporting creative teams, advice and strategies for evaluating product concepts, and interviews with product designers, inventors, and innovators from around the world.

Better executive health drives business performance and a stronger society. For the experienced manager as well as manager in training, business school professor, and executive coach; Steven P. MacGregor helps you leverage this truth in your life and your business. MacGregor shares breakthrough insights and techniques he's honed through seven years of pioneering the world-renowned Sustaining Executive Performance (SEP) program and working with thousands of top executives worldwide.

In The Change Maker’s Playbook, Amy Radin shares her insight-driven, down-to-earth approach to deliver innovation results under today's uncertain, complex, and rapidly changing conditions. Any leader in any size company, no matter the size or sector, feels the pressure to innovate, find new ideas and business models, and create enduring customer value. There is no one formula or set process to find and execute the ideas that achieve these goals.