Innovation Leadership

A lean strategy is about gaining a competitive edge by offering better quality products at competitive prices and making a sustainable profit by eliminating waste through engaging employees in discovering deeper ways to think about their own jobs and smarter ways of working together. In its current form, lean has been radically effective, but its true powers have yet to be harnessed. The Lean Strategy harnesses that power and delivers a new way of creating value from lean.

Embark on a transformative journey to conquer life's challenges with the groundbreaking eBook, "Mind Over Matters." Whether it’s about rebounding from setbacks, forging resilience, or turning adversities into opportunities, this empowering guide is your road map to triumphing over obstacles and flourishing in the face of adversity. In "Mind Over Matters," you'll discover how to cultivate an obstacle mindset that reframes barriers as beacons guiding you toward growth. Learn to embrace cognitive flexibility and build mental toughness through a curated collection of techniques, setting the ...

Discover the dynamic power of collective imagination in "Synergy Spark" – your guide to unlocking the potential of collaborative creativity. Whether you're a business leader, a member of a creative team, or an individual curious about the untapped power of working with others, this pioneering eBook is a treasure trove of insights designed to transform the way you think about innovation. Embark on a panoramic journey from the roots of collaborative creativity in Chapter 1, where you'll explore the essence and evolution of joint intellectual endeavors, and delve into case studies that ...

There is perhaps no leadership challenge more daunting than managing creativity - and more urgent than delivering breakthrough innovation. How do you harness some of the most passionate, intelligent people in your organization without stifling them? How do you simultaneously unleash their energy and channel it into something tangible? Lina Echeverría offers seven proven principles through which new ideas come to fruition, from unleashing passion and drive, and embracing productive conflict, to emphasizing excellence and structure while living values that liberate creativity.

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.

Today when the competition, technology, and the economy are evolving faster than ever before, organizations and the people like us who work in them need a proven approach to help us adapt - and succeed. The key, according to Paul B. Brown, is to think like an entrepreneur, no matter what your position or industry. What works for the most successful entrepreneurs will work for us, Brown argues, whether we want to stay employed working for someone else or are thinking of going off on our own.

How did Ford Motors use Lean development to pull off one of the most impressive corporate turnarounds in history? Largely by avoiding the mistakes that so many companies make when in a death spiral. They looked beyond manufacturing efficiency to change the very fundamentals of how they developed vehicles. In Designing the Future, Lean product development expert James Morgan and world-renowned Lean guru Jeffrey K. Liker reveal why so many companies have achieved only moderate success with Lean in operations, with a limited impact on their overall business.

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.

In a world driven by innovation, the most successful companies are often led by founders who break from convention, disrupt industries, and relentlessly pursue their vision. Founder Mode: Leading with Resilience, Vision, and Purpose gives you the blueprint to harness this unique leadership style and apply it to your own business. Learn how today’s top entrepreneurs apply founder mode to scale startups into industry giants through bold decision-making, customer obsession, continuous product innovation, and tenacious execution. But leadership in founder mode isn’t without its challenges. ...

When Paulo Savaget was ten months old growing up in Brazil, he became deathly ill. His parents had no access to baby formula he needed - but managed to save his life using a simple workaround. Decades later, Savaget began to study workarounds to find different ways they can address our most urgent problems. For ages, corporations have been lecturing the world on how to get things done - but Savaget soon discovered that much about problem-solving can be learned from the scrappiest groups.

Drawing on case studies from the most innovative start-ups in Silicon Valley, this step-by-step guide will show you how to develop, validate and bring your impossibly big ideas to life. In today's world, everyone needs to innovate to stay competitive. It doesn't matter if you're a start-up founder, corporate executive, small business owner, freelancer or professional: there's a technology out there that's going to upend your industry. And if you aren't able to harness it to your advantage, someone else will.

Executives are waking up to unprecedented levels of disruption. They’re facing new challenges from all angles that threaten the very viability of their organizations. Disruptions could be from more agile competitors, increased regulation, changes in consumer tastes or the ongoing development of new technologies. No matter what it is, you can expect change to be happening everywhere. Making New Mistakes is the go-to book for leaders looking for guidance on how to handle these disruptive events. It’s the guide that will prepare you for the next event, because it’s not if but when. Learn...

In Secrets of Silicon Valley, entrepreneur and media commentator Deborah Perry Piscione takes us inside this vibrant ecosystem where meritocracy rules the day. She explores Silicon Valley's exceptionally risk-tolerant culture, and why it thrives despite the many laws that make California one of the worst states in the union for business.

We live in a world of vast collaborative potential. Yet all too often, powerful boundaries create barriers that can splinter groups. And this can lead to uninspiring results. To transform borders into frontiers in today's global, multistakeholder organizations, you need Boundary Spanning Leadership. Powered by a decade of global research and practice by the top-ranked Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), this book takes you from rural towns in the US to Hong Kong's skyline, showing you how to build bridges across boundaries.

The Ultimate Sales Revolution explains how to reach the highest level of a professional relationship and become an indispensable partner in your client's success. You attain this exalted level of trust, respect, and differentiation from your competition by ensuring that every client request and activity delivers meaningful results, builds the strongest and most sustainable client relationship, avoids the three sources of miscommunication, and delivers massive value and impact.

Master the Art of Mindful Leadership and Transform Your Life! Are you struggling to navigate the complexities of leadership? Do you often find yourself overwhelmed by challenges and unable to align your personal and professional goals? Imagine if you could overcome these obstacles and lead with confidence, purpose, and innovation. In "How to Master Mindful Leadership Techniques," you will learn how to thrive in challenges, realign your life with purpose, and excel in transformative leadership tactics. This book is your ultimate guide to becoming a leader who inspires and drives team ...

Create products and services your consumers can't pass up - without the high cost of development.

Découvrez toutes les techniques efficaces pour étendre votre influence, utiliser votre force de persuasion, et emporter l'adhésion. Prendre des décisions, c'est indispensable et c'est le lot quotidien des cadres, managers ou directeurs. Mais encore faut-il que la mise en œuvre suive ! Pour mettre toutes les chances de votre côté, la Harvard Business Review vous propose son Essentiel pour convaincre.

Customer behaviors, business models, technologies, and regulations are evolving quickly, and many of the strategic rules we formerly lived by have become obsolete. To be able to respond quickly and intelligently to the fast pace of change, we need all levels and functions in our businesses to be creative and responsive. We need both courage and speed. Fearless Growth provides new rules to enable your company to adapt faster, move faster, and grow faster.

It has never been harder to see what's happening around us, interpret information efficiently, and develop strategies that are executed in a successful way. This is partly down to the speed of change and also down to the mindset about change that is common amongst large and small companies. To them, change is seen as the enemy. This book proposes a role reversal and gives people a brand new methodology as a practical guide in how to use change as a fueling mechanism to generate outstanding business success.