Innovation Culture

Art and science are famous opposites. Contemporary innovation mostly keeps them far apart. But in this book, David Edwards, world-renowned inventor; Harvard professor of the practice of idea translation; creator of breathable insulin, edible food packaging, and digital scents, reveals that the secret to creating very new things of lasting benefit, including innovations we will need to sustain human life on the planet, lies in perceiving art and science as one.

Today’s board rooms, think tanks, and staff lounges are more diverse than ever before. These cultural differences can either lead to gridlock among stubborn, single-minded thinkers or they can catalyze innovation and growth among an expansive team of creative, distinctive individuals. Diverse teams are far more creative than homogenous teams—but only when they are managed effectively. Driven by Difference identifies the management practices necessary to minimize conflict while maximizing the informational diversity found in varied values and experiences.

What can you learn from the most successful companies in the world? The Capital One Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled an unlikely credit card startup to revolutionize the credit industry.

We have been underselling the future. In fact, the future will be neither dystopia nor utopia (which is an actively harmful dichotomy) - it will be what we do the work to make it. And the best way to the brightest future is to focus on what we can do, and make sure we are working to get there. Kate O’Neill, author of Tech Humanist and Pixels and Place, explores the ways we have already begun to solve human problems at scale, and makes the case for an approach that’s both hopeful and strategic as our best chance at a truly bright future.

This is an excerpt (three sections total) from J. Munro's justly famous book, Heroes of the Telegraph.

Flipping TVs is a business model that is often overlooked, but those who are getting involved and know what to look out for can make impressive additional incomes–with very little effort.

The book is a collection of intriguing stories that cover a wide range of topics, including nutrition supplements, transformative inventions, and various energy sources. It's a journey of exploration, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of knowledge. The book aims to inspire listeners to stay curious and hungry for learning as it takes them on a captivating adventure through the world of science and technology.

The US Army entered World War II unprepared. Lacking Germany's blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was organized to fight two wars: one on the ground and one in the air. Previous commentators have blamed Congressional funding and public apathy for the army's unprepared state. David E. Johnson believes instead that the principal causes were internal: army culture and bureaucracy, and their combined impact on the development of weapons and doctrine.

Everyone says that innovation is important. The problem is that no one tells you how to be innovative. Innovation is a State of Mind sets out a step-by-step guide to creating innovative ideas and putting them into action. You'll learn how to generate more ideas with greater potential, how to grow and evaluate them, test their effectiveness, and then implement the ones that are going to improve your business.

Wer hat's erfunden? Und wann? Und wie? Dieses Hörbuch entführt auf eine Wissensreise in die Geschichte der Mobilität - zu den klugen Köpfen, die das Fahrrad, das Luftschiff oder das Auto erdachten. Große Namen wie Carl Drais, Graf Zeppelin, Carl Benz oder Rudolf Diesel sind nur einige der bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten, die hier vorgestellt werden.

In this audiobook, you'll learn how to invest in ICOs, know what ICOs are and how they work, the risks involved in investing in ICOs, general investing principles, cryptocurrency investing strategies, and how to choose ICOs to invest in.

This guide aims at expediting your discovery of smarter investment strategies by providing basic information about Ethereum to help you seamlessly build your investment portfolio, while confidently navigating the various concepts of mining, smart contracts, and gaining returns. This guide is also fully aware that Ethereum is still in its infancy and is laced with unique risks and complexities.

Dieses Hörbuch bietet eine kurze Historie der Kommunikation. Erfahren Sie Interessantes und Nützliches über Erfinder wie Johannes Gutenberg, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Werner von Siemens und andere bedeutende Tüftler. "Große Erfinder: Kommunikation" zeigt abwechslungsreich und informativ die Bandbreite ihres Einfallsreichtums, der dazu beigetragen hat, die Welt zu vernetzen - lange vor Smartphone, Tablet und Datenwolke.

A renowned business innovation leader teams up with a social-personality psychologist to offer that something else—a collection of ten visionary principles to obliterate barriers to change and ignite a whole new level of creative problem-solving. Drawing upon decades of experience working with the world's best-known organizations and their teams, the authors provide practical advice that goes beyond "business as usual" for successfully tackling intractable challenges. The Breakthrough Manifesto explores why these principles are critical for the current times.

As Audrey Kurth Cronin explains in Power to the People, what we are seeing now is an exacerbation of an age-old trend. Over the centuries, the most surprising developments in warfare have occurred because of advances in technologies combined with changes in who can use them. Indeed, accessible innovations in destructive force have long driven new patterns of political violence. When Nobel invented dynamite and Kalashnikov designed the AK-47, each inadvertently spurred terrorist and insurgent movements that killed millions and upended the international system.

Young adults are coming of age at a time when work is temporary, underpaid, incommensurate with their education, or downright unsatisfying. Despite these challenges, media scholar S. Craig Watkins argues that this moment of precarity is rife with opportunities for innovation, and that young adults are leading the charge in turning that into an inventive and surprisingly sustainable future.

The challenges of today's new work-from-home environment have transformed the role of employers from mere beneficiaries of workforce health to essential partners in supporting employees' total wellbeing. It's Personal: The Business Case for Caring serves as a strategic and tactical guide for company leaders who want to embrace this transformational change, improve employee engagement, and drive business results.

This selection comes from the 1910 book on the history of the telephone by Herbert N. Casson. The two sections cover the birth of the phone and its future. What makes this fascinating is how 110 years ago writers viewed the future of such a communicative device.

Stell dir eine Welt ohne Elektrizität vor, eine Welt ohne Plastik. Es gibt kein Licht, das abgeht, sobald du auf den Schalter drückst. Es gäbe kein Radio, keinen Fernseher, kein Telefon und Internet natürlich auch nicht. Von Computern ganz zu schweigen! Stell dir eine Welt vor, in der noch keine Narkosemittel entdeckt wurden - müsste man dich am Bein operieren, wärst du hellwach und würdest genau mitbekommen, wie der Arzt an deinen Knochen herumsägt.

From years of research and practical experience as a consultant, Jeff DeGraff has learned that when it comes to any innovation initiative, disharmony is crucial. We innovate when we disrupt, and we first have to disrupt each other.