Career Innovation

Warum disruptive Innovationen die globale Wirtschaft verändert. Erfahren Sie wie Sie Ihr Geschäftsmodel innovieren. Warum Sie sich dem digitalen Wandel nicht entziehen können. Welche Megatrends uns die nächsten Jahre erwarten.

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.

Through the eyes of an inventor of new markets, Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation tells the story of how financial innovation - a concept that is misunderstood and under attack - has been a positive force in the last four decades. If properly designed and regulated, these “good derivatives” can open vast possibilities to address a variety of global problems. Filled with provocative ideas and valuable lessons, this book will provide both an insightful interpretation of the last 40 years in capital and environmental markets.

In this sequel to The American Dream Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, Francisco Gonzalez introduces us to more innovators who are succeeding in today's economy despite the increasing challenges to the American Dream. In this volume, documenting Francisco's journey across America, he complements the ten characteristics of the mind with ten new uncommon characteristics of the heart. He demonstrates why it's essential to build an entrepreneur's mindset but also to understand that the driving force that keeps every entrepreneur going comes from the heart.

In today’s rapidly changing world, many leaders feel stuck—facing complex challenges that demand fresh thinking and adaptive strategies. The Curious Leader reveals an often-overlooked solution: curiosity. By cultivating curiosity, you’ll unlock the ability to drive innovation, achieve operational excellence, and create a culture of adaptability and growth.

Are you navigating the challenges of building an inclusive workplace? Do you struggle with gaining leadership buy-in, addressing cultural resistance, or leveraging diverse talents to drive innovation? You’re not alone but closer to the solution than you think. Modern Workplace Diversity is your essential guide to overcoming the hurdles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Packed with actionable insights, this book offers practical tools to help you create an environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and empowered to contribute their best.

Großartige Ideen entstehen nicht nur an der Spitze – sie entstehen dort, wo die eigentliche Arbeit passiert. Was, wenn der Schlüssel zur Innovation nicht in den Vorstandsetagen liegt, sondern an der Front? In Der Durchbruch – Wie Sie Innovationen von Grund auf vorantreiben zeigt Ihnen Rich Dunbar, wie eine gezielte Bottom-up-Kommunikation bahnbrechende Ideen entfesseln, Mitarbeitende stärken und nachhaltige Verbesserungen vorantreiben kann – ganz ohne riesige Budgets oder komplizierte Strategien.

A groundbreaking guide to creating the word-of-mouth magic that cuts through the skepticism and information overload of today's consumers, and drives sales-and profits-to new heights. What turns a "sleeper" into a box-office bonanza or catapults a just-released book to the top of bestseller...

Through the lens of Rayburn Electric Cooperative's incredible journey, *Status Quo is Not Company Policy* offers a roadmap for leaders seeking to build resilient, adaptive organizations. Whether you're a seasoned executive or an aspiring entrepreneur, this book will inspire you to embrace change, empower your people, and lead with fearlessness.

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.

Rediscover and liberate your creative genius. The challenge facing today's business leaders is how to transform the tension between running the businesses of today and innovating to build the businesses of tomorrow - how to change and innovate while dealing with the relentless and rapid changes buffeting us daily.

To keep your brand innovative, you need to feed your creative spirit, and the office is not the place to do that. So get out, disrupt and reimagine the status quo, get into a café, and dream.

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.

Big Bang Disruptions are new products and services that enter the market better and cheaper than established products, seemingly overnight. Larry Downes and Paul F. Nunes offer critical insights and strategies companies are using not just to protect themselves but to create and appropriate disruptive innovations for themselves. The authors detail the four stages of big bang innovation and show leaders how to see disruptions headed their way - and take action before it’s too late.

Almost 20 years ago, Clayton Christensen popularized the term disruption in his book The Innovator's Dilemma, describing it as a set of risks that established firms face. Since then, few have closely examined his account. Joshua Gans does so in this book. He looks at companies that have proven resilient and those that have fallen and explains why some companies have successfully managed disruption while others have not.

When Brigadier General John "Dragon" Teichert took command of legendary Edwards Air Force Base, it was characterized by a choking complacency. It was operating on autopilot when it needed to be in afterburner.

What Matters Now is Gary Hamel's impassioned plea to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about management, the meaning of work, and organizational life. He asks, "What are the fundamental, make-or-break issues that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead?"

The Entrepreneur Within is an innovator's playbook to help ideas gain traction, scale quickly and keep an entrepreneurial mindset alive within any organisation. Large companies often lose the creative spark that brought them success and get weighed down by the complex systems built up within them.

Change the Box: A Guide to Dream, Incubate, and Scale Your Innovations by John Spencer-Taylor reveals powerful strategies to transform bold ideas into thriving businesses. Drawing from his experience with BrainGu, Spencer-Taylor shares practical advice on balancing creativity with commercial viability. The book also introduces the "Change the Box" mantra, emphasizing small, impactful changes that drive significant results.

There once was a small town and school in Oregon with a dream that began afresh with an eighth-grader who asked her parents, “Why can't we just have a real track?” As it happened, the community and school had been talking about creating an athletic complex for over 25 years, without even approaching to the starting line. Michael Bergmann and IncubatorU™ showed up to help the town realize their vision and embrace this young girl’s dream. They built a framework using IncubatorU’s 5-Step Methodology.