Innovation Culture

Step into the captivating world of healthcare innovation and scientific breakthroughs with Medical Marvels: Amazing Discoveries in Health. This meticulously crafted journey takes you on a 30-day exploration of the most remarkable milestones in the field of medicine and healthcare. Each day unveils a new chapter in the story of humanity's quest for better health, offering a glimpse into the groundbreaking discoveries, cutting-edge technologies, and revolutionary advancements that have shaped the way we understand and approach healthcare.

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.

Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had 80 seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did he would make history as the world's first commercial astronaut. The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required small teams to do what only the world's largest governments had done before.

לפניכם הסיפור שמאחורי אחת מהצלחות העסקיות הגדולות של זמננו, אם לא הגדולה שבהן. מהדורה מעודכנת זו יוצאת לרגל עשרים שנה להקמתה של גוגל ומתבססת על מחקר קפדני וגישה ישירה למידע פנימי בחברה העוצמתית והגלובלית שידה בכול.

In the wake of economic downturn, foreign competition, spiking oil prices, and even war, American business throughout this decade has been thrust into crisis. To improve their performance, corporations everywhere have adopted a wide range of tools and techniques, yet many continue to struggle. Going Lean points to a better way.

Unlock the wonders of a bygone era with The Islamic Classical Age: The Pinnacle of Knowledge, Culture, and Innovation in the Muslim World. This captivating book delves into the Golden Age of Islam, a period from the 8th to the 14th centuries when the Muslim world became a beacon of intellectual and cultural achievement. Discover the groundbreaking contributions of legendary scholars like Al-Khwarizmi, Avicenna, and Al-Ghazali, whose works in science, medicine, and philosophy laid the groundwork for modern civilization.

What connects Paleolithic bone flutes to the invention of computer software? Or the Murex sea snail to the death of the great American city? How does the bag of crisps you hold in your hand help tell the story of humanity itself? In his brilliant new work on the history of innovation, international best-seller Steven Johnson argues that the pursuit of novelty and wonder has always been a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change.

The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike—and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity's life and dreamlife, and a flashpoint in culture wars for more for than 200 years.

How did a balloonist circumnavigate the earth without fuel? How did an inventor design a device that creates electrical power from human footsteps? How did the WHO figure out how to treat and reduce the transmission of Ebola? They all used alien thinking. For over a decade, innovation experts Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux and Michael Wade have studied individuals around the world who have made leaps of creative genius. Their research shows that they are five patterns of thinking that distinguish true innovators from the rest of us.

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.

>The Innovation Book is your roadmap to creating powerful innovations that deliver success in a competitive world. With a practical, bite-size format, Mckeown will help you tackle the really important challenges and seize the most-valuable opportunities. The Innovation Book includes 24 of the most powerful tools and models to help innovators, game changers, mavericks, and revolutionaries make new ideas useful.

We – all of us – consistently exclude, underestimate and under-utilize huge numbers of people in the workforce even as we include, overestimate and promote others, often beyond their level of competence. Not only is this immoral and unjust, it’s bad for business. Just Work is the solution. In Just Work Kim Scott reveals a practical framework for both respecting everyone’s individuality and collaborating effectively.

Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people’s fortunes. Tesla made giant leaps in the technology of electrical supply, X-rays, radio remote control, and wireless electrical transmission. He embodied the aspirations and the contradictions of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly in its grasp. Then as now, he attracted cranks and visionaries in equal number.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is driving change at an unprecedented pace, level, and intensity that is impacting businesses across industries, not to mention our everyday lives. We are rapidly blurring the physical and the digital, transforming the way we live and, in some sense, what it even means to be human. Whether we run a startup or multinational, a nonprofit or academic institution, a city or a whole country, we need to embrace this change to not just survive but thrive under these new realities.

Highlighting the careers of well-known inventors, this exploration of failure amid greatness reveals the lesser-known and most fascinating facts about their careers, their wackier hobbies, and their big flops alongside great successes. Thomas Edison, for example, not only revolutionized the world with the light bulb but also designed a concrete piano, a nonoperational helicopter made from box kites and piano wire, and a machine to speak to the dead.

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.

Innovation is worth little unless it generates lasting success, and gaining measurable results from new ideas requires more than creative risk-taking. Successful innovation demands a tactical approach, and Getting Innovation Right reveals how your company can secure real traction and growth in the marketplace.

In this audiobook, you'll learn how to invest in ICOs, know what ICOs are and how they work, the risks involved in investing in ICOs, general investing principles, cryptocurrency investing strategies, and how to choose ICOs to invest in.

Every business needs to innovate, but few know where to start. ON Innovation, gives leaders 72 simple but powerful ideas they can use to create a more innovative organization. Drawing from his experience as founder and CEO at Travelocity.com and from the 10 other start-ups where he’s worked, Jones helps listeners turn innovation from an academic exercise into an everyday skill.

This book was written to inform People and Culture Practitioners on the Key Attributes that define workplace culture in order to perform the real work of building or creating a culture that defines the organization. The workplace culture of an organization plays a crucial role in shaping the overall atmosphere and environment in which employees work. It encompasses the values, beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes that define a company and its employees. As People and Culture Practitioners, it is essential to understand the importance of workplace culture and how it can impact employee ...