Career Innovation

In today’s frenetic, uncertain world, the “same old, same old” routines are perfect ways to go nowhere fast. What has worked for you before - professionally or personally - no longer gets results. Whether you’ve been downsized, reached the end of a long relationship, or found yourself questioning where you are in life, it’s clear you need to change. To innovate. Make it new. Make yourself new. Now, in this invaluable audiobook, the world-renowned “Dean of Innovation”, Jeff DeGraff, shares his tried-and-true techniques on how to reinvent yourself.

Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel refute this idea, bringing together a vast array of data and case studies to tell a very different story. With expertise spanning academia and the business world, Erixon and Weigel illustrate how innovation is being hampered by existing government regulations and corporate practices.

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.

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.

In The Very Best Bad Idea, Kirk Westwood steamrolls the long-held premise that right is good and wrong is bad. He paves the way to give anyone who sees situations differently the permission to be proud of their brilliantly unbridled “bad ideas”.

The greatest challenge of any start-up and growth company is the transition from an early stage start up to a robust organization complete with a driving culture, contemporary leadership, organizational infrastructure and twenty-first-century operating methodologies. Ralf Specht provides inspiration, wisdom, and learnings gleaned from his role and experience in creating and scaling Spark 44, a Jaguar Land Rover joint venture from concept to an award-winning global marketing communications company with well over a thousand employees in eighteen countries in a few short years.

The Ways to New gives you a blueprint for innovation, helping you dig your organization out of the quicksand and get on the fast track to growth. Author Jean-Marie Dru is the originator of the disruption methodology, which he shares here; he is also an international authority on breaking the mold and leading the market, and this audiobook is his guide to making it happen. Too many companies are too slow with innovation. They lag behind, creating at a snail's pace, and thus miss out on any kind of organic growth.

Technologischer Fortschritt, Veränderungen im Kundenverhalten und die Globalisierung führen zu einem immer schnelleren Wandel der Märkte und verstärktem Wettbewerbsdruck...

The business Leaders Essential guide audiobook bundle contains The Business Leaders Essential Guide to Growth, The Business Leaders Essential Guide to Marketing, and The Business Leaders Essential Guide to Innovation, by renowned business adviser Stephen Dann....

Directing Creativity: The Art of Innovation is a practical guide to unlock creativity and drive innovation. Award-winning Hollywood film composer Alan Williams demystifies the creative process in practical, accessible terms that are applicable to every innovative passion.

Based on 10 years of research and interviews with 80 top executives, the award-winning The Samsung Way is the first definitive guide to the groundbreaking management principles that transformed a lagging electronics company into one of the most successful brands in the world.

Knowing how to correctly measure innovation is essential. It is essential since when you measure yourself correctly, then you put your focus on the right things, thus, accelerating your success. In the case of measuring innovation it's even more essential, because it allows innovation managers, who are establishing the credibility of unfamiliar innovation activities and their own professional credibility inside organizations, to demonstrate the value of their activities to the organization.

When a company can get its best ideas to market faster, its leaders can be confident that their most important strategic decisions will be executed faithfully, and their visions for the company’s future will be realized. They are also able to be agile in response to market changes, pursue new opportunities, and achieve ambitious plans for growth.

Experts Michael George, James Works, and Kimberly Watson-Hemphill explain the surprising and significant gap between the CEO's growth goals and actual performance. The authors, who are experts at connecting strategy to execution, give you a complete blueprint for exploiting the strategic and operational dimensions of innovation.

En marzo de 2020, a punto de que el mundo colapsara por una pandemia global, Carlos Master Muñoz sólo pensaba en una idea: «¿Cómo puedo hacerle frente a esta crisis y salir ganando?» La respuesta sigue siendo la misma: innovando. Como resultado, en lugar de perder dinero, Muñoz vivió el mejor año de su vida en términos financieros. La innovación salvó su vida y sus negocios en aquel año que para muchos fue nefasto.Y si tú entiendes esto, algo parecido te sucederá a ti. Para eso ha escrito este libro.

In The Smartest Places on Earth, van Agtmael and Bakker present a truly hopeful and inspiring investigation into the emerging sources of a new era of competitiveness for America and Europe that are coming from unlikely places - those cities and areas once known as "rustbelts" that have, from an economic perspective, been written off.

Practical. Challenging. Well-researched and unflinchingly candid, this book—based on a decade-long study—provides leaders at all levels an actionable framework for building cultures that support higher levels of engagement and innovation. Choose Love, Not Fear challenges listeners to overcome a history of fear-based processes that unnecessarily render us less capable, restrict what we see, and narrow what we believe is possible. This book shows how the best leaders build teams where love and positive emotion are the foundation of making the rhetoric of engagement a reality.

Die Strategien erfolgreicher Krimineller als Fundus für Innovation! Geschichten von erfolgreichen Kriminellen faszinieren und erschrecken uns schon immer. Ob "Scarface" als Alter Ego des organisierten Verbrechens oder "Mr. Nice" Howard Marks, der reale große Cannabisdealer und Bestsellerautor. Sie alle verbindet das Bild des kriminellen Genies. Vor allem ihr Einfallsreichtum und Innovationsgeist können dabei als Vorlage auch für legale Geschäfte dienen. Es gibt etliche Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen Kriminellen und Erfolgsunternehmern, u.a. sind die Grenzen der Legalität oftmals unscharf.

Innovation expert Marion Debruyne explains how to become an outside-in organization by constantly connecting with the market to anticipate changes, converting customer insights into actionable change and collaborating with others where their own capabilities fall short. Packed with real world examples from leading global companies, Customer Innovation provides the framework needed to shift from a product-oriented to a solutions-oriented focus and from a transaction-based to a co-creation-based customer relationship.

This book delves into the transformative potential of blockchain technology within the framework of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles, providing a comprehensive guide for leaders who aspire to pioneer sustainable and ethical innovations in their industries. It offers an in-depth exploration of how blockchain can serve as a powerful tool for addressing some of the world's most pressing challenges, including climate change, social inequality, and corporate governance.