Business Innovation

So how do we move the future from the distant horizon to the present day? We need Intellectual Anarchy. The accelerating challenges facing our planet—such as climate change, food scarcity, sustainable energy, overpopulation, nuclear proliferation, income inequality, and rising healthcare costs—are solvable. The question is not if, but when. All these challenges directly impact our lives and our unwritten future. They have enormous economic consequences for humans and society. They also provide incredible opportunities for investors and innovators.

Revolutionize Your Business with 'Optimizing Operations' The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Outsourcing In the world of business, staying ahead means staying efficient. 'Optimizing Operations' is a groundbreaking eBook designed to transform the way your company views and utilizes outsourcing. Whether you're at the helm of a startup or an established corporation, the insights within these chapters promise to unlock new levels of productivity and innovation. Discover the untold narrative of the outsourcing revolution. This comprehensive guide will lead you through the historical evolution of ...

Discover the Essence of Innovation and Success with "Entrepreneurial Wisdom" Unlock the secrets of building a thriving business with "Entrepreneurial Wisdom," your comprehensive guide to navigating the exhilarating world of entrepreneurship. From the foundations of crafting a resilient business mindset to the intricate processes of expanding into global markets, this eBook encapsulates the crucial facets of modern entrepreneurship. Chapter by chapter, this guide will lead you through the intricate maze of opportunities and challenges that today's entrepreneurs face. Delve into the ...

Paul Falcone, author of 101 Sample Write Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems and renowned HR and leadership expert, breaks down the best practices for progressive employee discipline and structured terminations into easy-to-understand steps that will help you avoid common legal and ethical pitfalls.

It's no secret that continuous innovation is the key to seizing and maintaining the competitive edge in today's increasingly challenging business environment. Unfortunately, the process for achieving this holy grail of business has been a mystery - until now. Built to Innovate delivers a proven system for building relentless innovation into your company's DNA.

The Monkey and the Fish decodes profound shifts and events taking place in the world today due to globalism, multiculturalism and technology, and introduces an original approach to ministry, church, and leadership known as The Third Culture. The book title refers to an Eastern parable that will challenge you to reexamine fundamental assumptions of the evangelical movement, including erroneous interpretations that have made the church increasingly irrelevant in North America and the global village.

In today's fast-changing, hyper-competitive market, developing your ability to creatively solve problems is mission critical. Creativity fuels growth, serves clients, and contributes to mission-based pursuits. Across every industry, organizations have an insatiable appetite to find creative problem-solvers, who can crack the code to unlock innovative outcomes and drive measurable results.

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.

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.

In Turning the Giant, John Berra shares his amazing life's journey that took him from being a shy, uncertain university student to becoming the Chairman of Emerson Process Management. As someone who was voted into the Process Automation Hall of Fame, Berra writes from a place of authority and conviction. Because he has faced countless giants along his path, he knows what it takes to turn them.

Niccolò Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about - innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Harvard professor Amy Edmondson and journalist Susan Salter Reynolds explore how to bring into being systems that transform human experience and make the world more livable and sustainable.

In today’s fast-paced market, businesses must innovate to stay competitive, but many struggle to find opportunities for growth. Behzad Mahdavi’s book, Mastering Commercial Innovation, addresses this challenge through the engaging story of Kevin, a consultant dedicated to boosting the profitability of struggling companies worldwide. Kevin works with clients from various industries to improve their innovation culture and financial performance, offering insights into commercial innovation in an accessible way.

One of the key themes of the audiobook is showcasing how "effective" leadership resulted in billions earned and how "ineffective" leadership resulted in missed opportunities and disaster. In Secret Stories of Leadership, Growth, and Innovation, entrepreneur David Radlo follows up the 11 principles of leadership, growth, and innovation found in his first book, The Principles of Cartel Disruption, and adds a 12th secret and hidden key principle.

Best-selling author Lynda Gratton - one of the top 20 management thinkers in the world according to the Financial Times - follows up her best seller Hot Spots (over 16,000 sold) by taking a deep look at people who GLOW - individuals in organizations who radiate energy and attract others to them - who are able to create, find, and flourish in hot spots of innovation.

Innovation requires solving big problems from a new perspective, but many struggle to successfully innovate in their work or personal life when faced with a problem that requires innovative thinking. Author and researcher April Bell has zeroed in on the power of empathy and the ability to embrace risk when solving big problems in the unknown. In her book, The Fire Starter: Igniting Innovation with Empathy, Bell combines engaging personal stories with research to provide listeners with a simple framework helping them connect to greater human truths to solve big problems.

Who’s going to write the next chapter in the saga of American business? Who’s going to chronicle the best way to compete, the new way to win? That’s the mission of Mavericks at Work, a book that profiles a network of rebels who are creating a new business model that makes use of fresh principles and captures what it means to be a state-of-the-art organization. Including such pioneering companies as ING Direct, Southwest Airlines, Pixar, HBO, Anthropologie, Craigslist, Netflix, and Commerce Bank, this book is nothing short of a lively new intellectual agenda for business.

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.

Es geht um viel: Um unsere Zukunft in Deutschland und Europa. Um die Welt, wie wir sie unseren Kindern wünschen. Und um einen Global Player, den kaum jemand kennt, der uns jedoch alle betrifft – Chinas Mittelstand. 60 Prozent der Wirtschaftsleistung und 70 Prozent der technologischen Innovationen Chinas werden von mittelständischen Unternehmen geleistet. Doch wer sind die neuen Hidden Champions und Weltmarktführer von morgen, welche Ziele verfolgen sie global und was hat das mit unserer Zukunft zu tun?

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.

Today, driving innovation from within an organization is the single most important factor for a company's success. In Disrupt-It-Yourself, Simone Ahuja delivers a clear and practical playbook for harnessing and cultivating this essential practice of "intrapreneurship". Based on hundreds of interviews as well as on her consulting work in Fortune 500 companies, Ahuja describes the competencies of successful intrapreneurs and how they must be supported - before they leave.