Innovation Leadership

What do American Express, Converse, GE, and Lagunitas all have in common? They saw things differently. We've had our expectations turned upside down by leading brands like American Express, Converse, and Waze, simply because they saw things differently. How did they do that? By questioning the...

Every company wants to grow and become more successful. There is no magic formula to make this happen, but it is generally agreed that in order for this to happen the company cannot stand still. Instead, they always have to be trying new things and growing.

More than two hundred CEOs reveal their candid insights on how to build and foster a corporate culture that encourages innovation and drives results In Quick and Nimble, Adam Bryant draws on interviews with more than two hundred CEOs to offer business leaders the wisdom and guidance to move an...

We are terrible at managing creativity and innovation. But we're trying our best. Just beneath the ceiling of meeting rooms at night, everywhere around the world, from London to Lahore, Honolulu to Ho Chi Minh City, there is something sad happening. Above the long table and strewn chairs, amid the fluorescent light that has been left on despite the energy saving directive on the wall, there are a million little ideas just floating amongst the dust particles, drifting in the air.

The Invisible Advantage details how any organization can create a culture of innovation - an environment that promotes free thinking, an entrepreneurial spirit, and sustainable value creation at all levels and across all functions. It's a complete tool kit that anyone can use to uncover the unique, hidden drivers of innovation and then introduce fresh, intuitive approaches tailored to their organization's specific environment.

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.

From the bestselling author Napoleon Hill--Lessons on Success has helped millions of readers make the impossible, POSSIBLE! Napoleon Hill's 17 Essential Principles of Personal Achievement have served as an encouraging and illuminating guide for those seeking to improve all areas of their lives...

Today the market entry for new ideas and entrepreneurs is easier than ever as the digital age is reshaping how business is done. Through digitalization, the business environment has become highly open and widely connected. The combinations of digital technologies like edge computing and artificial intelligence, AI, enable new business model opportunities. In this fast-changing environment, the most important thing is to learn as fast as possible what to do next and what is worth doing at all.

Peter Drucker’s succinct summary of his book, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, considered the best book on entrepreneurship of all time. Discusses the seven areas for new businesses from the easiest to the most challenging.

Are you ready to tap into the hidden potential within your organization? Empowering Intrapreneurship is your guide to fostering innovation, motivation, and proactive leadership, especially in manufacturing environments.

Inclusion is more than a moral obligation; it's a competitive advantage. Inclusive leadership expert Melissa Majors is an innovator and optimizer of inclusion, leadership, and education strategies. In The 7 Simple Habits of Inclusive Leaders, she reveals how great leaders enjoy superior team performance and drive much higher profitability by incorporating inclusive practices. Through storytelling, research, and personal experiences, she offers a common-sense yet compelling and actionable approach to inclusion.

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.

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.

The Five Letter F Word™ brings culture center stage in creating a strategy to allow you to innovate. You gain insight into several key areas that often lead to busy teams not delivering the expected growth. With these insights are tools to define a meaningful strategy, how to prioritize, and how to get things done.

You've landed a job leading innovation. Congratulations! So what do you do now? That's where this audiobook comes in. It's designed to be a tactical guide for you, the person charged with leading innovation, regardless of the product or domain, no matter the organizational structure you've inherited or are meant to create, no matter the process you've adopted or want to adopt, whether you work in a brand-new start up or a Fortune 500 corporation.

Every company wants to grow and become more successful. There is no magic formula to make this happen, but it is generally agreed that in order for this to happen the company cannot stand still. Instead, they always have to be trying new things and growing. In an IT team, in order to make this kind of growth occur, innovation has to be encouraged to happen. All too often the workers on the team can get too involved in their day-to-day tasks to spend any time thinking about innovation. That's where the IT manager has to step in.

The New York Times bestselling authors of Reverse Innovation and How Stella Saved the Farm distill more than a decade of exclusive research into one short, powerful, action-oriented book. Companies stumble when they imagine that innovation is mostly about ideas. The reality is that ideas are...

Globalization has created a superheated competitive business environment that demands innovation to stay ahead. But it's also created a hidden source of innovation right in your midst: the people in your organization who have deep experience in more than one culture - multiculturals. Having to integrate different cultural frameworks has enabled them to develop abilities that can contribute powerfully to building innovative organizations.

As humans, what sets us apart is that we can achieve extraordinary goals when we focus, collaborate, and continuously check on our progress. However, even in large companies, only seven percent of the people know their company's top goals. OKRs, objectives, and key results, are what Google and many other top companies have been using deeply immersed into their culture from the very beginning.

From the beaches of Rio to the boardrooms of Madison Avenue, Shake the Cart is a delightful discourse on the art of creative disruption and millennial-driven innovation. Championing a brave new millennial-based outlook on life and business, Shake the Cart introduces three bold new ideas: the disruption mindset, the new adoption curve (the shaky-cart curve), and the way of the cart. With sportive case studies from Washington, DC to Wall Street, Shake the Cart envisions a diverse and inclusive world and workplace.