Innovation Leadership

The digital economy demands that high-performing and highly adaptive teams work creatively and collaboratively to identify and seize new opportunities quickly. Managers who are serious about innovation have to abandon old and broken hiring practices in order to identify and hire the right people to build the future.

Innovation is no longer the exclusive domain of the Silicon Valley elite. Reverse Innovation will open your eyes to the fact that the dynamics of global innovation are changing-and if you want your firm to survive, you'd better pay attention. The gap between rich nations and emerging economies is closing. No longer will innovations travel the globe in only one direction, from developed to developing nations. They will also flow in reverse.

This audiobook explores this culture of psychological safety and provides a blueprint for bringing it to life. The road is sometimes bumpy, but succinct and informative scenario-based explanations provide a clear path forward to constant learning and healthy innovation. With the strategies, processes, and methods discussed in innovation prowess, leaders can build a tested and comprehensive strategy for driving organic growth year after year.

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.

The era of process management is fading away, and the age of innovation is upon us. This is ushering in the era of knowledge creation where the goal of organizations is to discover how to find and take advantage of new value in the market. However, people are products of their environment. The culture that you have built for your organization is either stimulating creative thought or stunting it. Facilitating Innovation explains how the leader impacts the environment and describes the best practices of building a creative culture.

Everyone has the right to be well managed. And it is possible to be “just” at work - to treat others as you would be treated. These are radical propositions. When you live by them, the people you lead through your management hierarchy understand the context of the work they’re doing. They feel connected to the overall purpose of the enterprise and are aligned to its vision and values.

This book is dedicated to all the awesome inventors and innovation strategists. The mavericks that embrace innovation. Those that embark on the journey of the unknown. Those that take the familiar and transcend it to something completely new. Those that seek to create something genuinely special for other people’s experience.

En el Kamasutra de la sexualidad se requiere una flexibilidad física fuera de serie, pero yo no alcanzo a hacer ni la mitad de las posiciones. Lo bueno es que en El Kamasutra de la innovación no necesitarás una gran flexibilidad física, sino mental, porque llegarás a soluciones que nunca antes te habías imaginado.

This small but powerful book takes on the conventional thinking that says more resources are the answer to new product delys - helping you to see what is really going on as your organization seeks to innovate and launch new products. In an open and straight-talking manner, it teaches you to challenges the premises undermining your performance. Then, it shares strategies that strike directly at the root causes, so you can start taking action immediately.

Otro gran librito repleto de sabiduría e instrucciónpara añadir a la exitosa serie Maxwell 101. John C. Maxwell cree que "trabajar en equipo seencuentra en el corazón de los grandes logros". La pregunta no es si los equipos tienen valor. La pregunta es si nosotros reconocemos ese hecho y nosconvertimos en mejores trabajadores en equipo.

First introduced in Anne Marie Knott's influential Harvard Business Review article, RQTM (Research Quotient) is a revolutionary new tool that measures a company's R&D capability - its ability to convert investment in R&D into products and services people want to buy or to reduce the cost of producing these.

Leaders are under increasing pressure to ensure their businesses are gender-balanced and inclusive for the benefit of the economy and society.

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.

Imagine a company where everyone loves to work, where employees feel not just "satisfied" but truly cared for, respected, and energized. Think of the impact this would have on recruitment, retention, customer satisfaction, innovation, and overall performance. Aron Ain, the award-winning CEO of Kronos, a global provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions, believes that anything is possible when people are inspired.

Without a strong grasp of performance metrics, a company can have no clear, quantitative indication of its performance improvement. Six Sigma Business Scorecard offers a unique approach to measuring performance. Listeners will learn how to track their improvements in operations and financials - and make critical adjustments if such improvements are not up to expectations - using Six Sigma. This much-needed second edition of Six Sigma Business Scorecard delivers an innovative Execution Map allowing you to implement, reap, and quantify the many advantages of Six Sigma.

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

Informed by interviews with corporate strategists at leading companies around the world, eminent consultants at firms such as Bain, the Boston Consulting Group, and McKinsey & Co., and the internal archives of strategic innovators such as General Electric and Shell, this book provides vivid insights into the trials and tribulations of practice innovation in strategy, and stresses the hard work of the little recognized and sometimes eccentric innovators within the profession.

Authentic Inclusion™, an idea originated by Frances West, former IBM chief accessibility officer, is defined as the institutional insight that human diversity is at the core of disruptive innovation. It calls for holistic actions across an institution to respect an individual's ability to make a difference despite being different. Frances describes how her personal and professional journey led her to this thinking and work. The book addresses the diversity issues and proposes new ways that business leaders can think about inclusion as human first.

The nature of services in society and the economy is wide-ranging and complex, and the management of services and their innovation provokes a number challenges for practitioners, professionals, and academics. This book provides a range of perspectives on understanding, managing, and reconceptualizing service by bringing together contributions from leading figures in service research, to make a timely and significant multi-disciplinary contribution to the theory and practice of service management.

The Ultimate Sales Revolution explains how to reach the highest level of a professional relationship and become an indispensable partner in your client's success. You attain this exalted level of trust, respect, and differentiation from your competition by ensuring that every client request and activity delivers meaningful results, builds the strongest and most sustainable client relationship, avoids the three sources of miscommunication, and delivers massive value and impact.