Business Innovation

Ori Brafman and management consultant Judah Pollack dramatically demonstrate how even the best and most efficient organizations - from Fortune 500 companies to today's US Army - can become more innovative by allowing a little unstructured space and "contained chaos" into their planning and decision-making. Through their consulting work, they realized that while structure and hierarchy are essential both in large corporations and small groups, too much of either can stifle creativity.

We stand at an inflection point where technology can be leveraged to unleash human potential, or it can pit humans against machines. Heather McGowan and Chris Shipley have dedicated the last five years to understanding how technical, business, and cultural shifts have brought us to this place in order to construct this comprehensive and approachable guide to the future of work.

Tom Kelley, author of The Art of Innovation and the general manager of IDEO, the world-famous design firm, illuminates the strategies IDEO used to beat the devil's advocate and drive creativity throughout the organization.

Peter Senge's groundbreaking ideas on building organizations have made him a household name among corporate managers. His theories help businesses to clarify their goals, to defy the odds, to more clearly understand threats, and to recognize new opportunities. He introduces managers to a new source of competitive advantage, and offers a marvelously empowering approach to work.

Unlock the Power of AI: Master Strategy, Innovation, & Growth in the Digital Age Are you prepared to thrive in the AI revolution? In a world where artificial intelligence is transforming business, leadership, education, and problem-solving, success depends on your ability to adapt, innovate, and lead strategically. The AI-Driven Mindset is your step-by-step guide to leveraging AI for business growth, career success, and leadership excellence. Learn how to think strategically, make data-driven decisions, and apply AI-driven problem-solving techniques to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving world...

In How to Kill a Unicorn, Payne pulls back the curtain on how the company is able to bring more innovative products and ideas successfully to market than any other firm, and offers inside accounts of how they solved their biggest challenges. Embedded in their approach to new ideas are hard-earned lessons about what separates innovations that work from those that don’t.

As a Forbes Top 50 recognized leader and top 1% podcast host of the popular The Chris Voss Show Podcast, Chris Voss shares in this book a wealth of insightful stories, lessons, and experiences in leadership and character. With over 35 years of experience building successful multi-million dollar companies with very little capital, he reveals the strategies that he used to achieve business success, innovate new ideas, and overcome adversity. Through amazing stories of acquiring struggling companies and turning them around, as well as tales of innovation and resilience, Chris shares the vision...

Unlock the Secrets to Wealth and Innovation with the Minds of Buffett and Musk! In Think Like Buffett, Act Like Musk, you’ll learn how to combine the timeless investing wisdom of Warren Buffett with the bold innovation and disruptive thinking of Elon Musk. This powerful guide will show you how to build lasting wealth, create world-changing impact, and leave a legacy that transcends time. What You’ll Discover: Master Timeless Financial Strategies: Learn how Buffett’s principles of value investing, patience, and long-term thinking can lay the foundation for consistent wealth growth and ...

Gain practical strategies, insights, and tools tailored specifically for women looking to elevate their leadership journey through engaging stories and solid ways to futureproof their careers.

Systems: Using First Principles Thinking to Advance Your Career or BusinessesThis book aims to introduce professionals and entrepreneurs who want to be innovative and stand out from the crowd to First Principles Thinking. It offers them a set of guidelines or a system that they can apply to examine and tackle work and business problems or challenges. At Coaching for Better Learning (CBL), we believe a good system is the key to stress-free improvement, growth and success. We also coach our clients on leveraging First Principles Thinking to create innovative solutions and rise above the ...

Every investment plan under the sun is, at best, an informed speculation of what may happen in the future, based on a systematic extrapolation from the known past. Same as Ever reverses the process, inviting us to identify the many things that never, ever change. With his usual elan, Morgan Housel presents a master class on optimizing risk, seizing opportunity, and living your best life. Through a sequence of engaging stories and pithy examples, he shows how we can use our newfound grasp of the unchanging to see around corners.

Mapping Innovation is a refreshing alternative in the crowded business innovation space. Engaging and informative without sacrificing substance and expertise, this groundbreaking guide provides thorough background on some of the greatest innovations of the past century. It details the processes that advanced them from inception to world-changing products - and shows you how to replicate their success.

In the new edition of this fascinating book, a book that has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, Slashdot.org, Lifehacker.com and in the New York Times, best-selling author Scott Berkun pulls the best lessons from the history of innovation, including the recent software and web age, to reveal powerful and surprising truths about how ideas become successful innovations - truths people can easily apply to the challenges of today.

Our changing world demands creative thinkers and collaborative problem solvers, but too often, schools stifle growth and discovery in favor of getting through the curriculum or preparing for "the test." Learning opportunities and teaching methods must evolve to match the learner's needs....

Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator's Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation. Sharp, cogent, and provocative—and consistently noted as one of the most valuable business ideas of all time—The Innovator's Dilemma is the book no manager, leader, or entrepreneur should be without.

Analogies are far more complex than their SAT stereotype and lie at the very core of human cognition and creativity. Once we become aware of this, we start seeing them everywhere - in ads, apps, political debates, legal arguments, logos, and euphemisms, to name just a few. At their very best, analogies inspire new ways of thinking, enable invention, and motivate people to action. Unfortunately, not every analogy that rings true is true. That's why, at their worst, analogies can deceive, manipulate, or mislead us into disaster.

You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor. Anyone can invent - a parent wrestling with a baby sling...a coach frustrated with slick-soled running shoes...an office worker determined to keep the computer cords untangled. Inventing is simply finding clever solutions to everyday challenges. Author and inventor Patricia Nolan-Brown has turned common annoyances into ingenious and money-making products.

This book focuses on one question: How can large companies generate business impact from non-incremental innovation? The situation seems paradox. Winning in non-incremental innovation should be the domain of large corporates, not of greenfield startups. Yet, 7 out of 8 corporate startups do not generate business impact . And the media is full of stories that greenfield startups are attacking and even ‘disrupting’ incumbents. To stack the odds for success, large corporates have tried to emulate the methods and approaches of greenfield startups. They set up explorative innovation units (...

With insights into the cyclical nature of innovation and the indomitable spirit of human ingenuity, Bandwidth is a powerful saga that shines a light on how history may be repeating itself as the AI, quantum, and blockchain Boom cycle is taking hold.

There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there’s a third team, the linchpins. These people invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos. They figure out what to do when there’s no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers. They love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art.