
Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability
McGraw-Hill Professional (Publisher)
Published on 16. March 2014
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-07-183075-1 (ISBN)
Description
Leadership. Creativity. Innovation.
When you put it all together, EVERYTHING CONNECTS.The constant cascade of new technologies and social changes is creating a more empowered population. Workforces are increasingly dispersed, demanding of self-expression, and quite possibly disengaged. Within this topsy-turvy context, leaders must spark creativity, drive innovation, and ensure sustainability.
What are the remedies? The newest problems of the world find solutions in the oldest and time-less practices such as mindfulness, authenticity, and perseverance-because Everything Connects.
Everything Connects is a kaleidoscopic view of the way humans-by being able to think out of the box-have been able to achieve greatness for themselves, their organizations, and the world at large. It is your step-by-step guide for working with yourself and others-for meaningful success.
Using real-life practical experiences, serial entrepreneur and thought leader Faisal Hoque teams up with journalist Drake Baer to provide a personal and professional playbook that shows how to:
Holistically connect the "when" and "what" with who you areInspire and lead inside and outside of your organizationGenerate ideas, grounded decisions, and long-term value
Part philosophy, part business, and part history, Everything Connects offers the wisdom of 2,500-year-old Eastern philosophies and the interconnected insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Couple that with Fortune 100 corporate cross pollination for creativity and startup thinking for how to adapt with ease, and you'll quickly discover that Everything Connects.
This isn't just a quick fix for your next financial quarter; this is how you succeed in the long run. It is a systemization of the best practices of spirituality and entrepreneurship-loaded with knowledge, humor, and humanity.
When you put it all together, EVERYTHING CONNECTS.The constant cascade of new technologies and social changes is creating a more empowered population. Workforces are increasingly dispersed, demanding of self-expression, and quite possibly disengaged. Within this topsy-turvy context, leaders must spark creativity, drive innovation, and ensure sustainability.
What are the remedies? The newest problems of the world find solutions in the oldest and time-less practices such as mindfulness, authenticity, and perseverance-because Everything Connects.
Everything Connects is a kaleidoscopic view of the way humans-by being able to think out of the box-have been able to achieve greatness for themselves, their organizations, and the world at large. It is your step-by-step guide for working with yourself and others-for meaningful success.
Using real-life practical experiences, serial entrepreneur and thought leader Faisal Hoque teams up with journalist Drake Baer to provide a personal and professional playbook that shows how to:
Holistically connect the "when" and "what" with who you areInspire and lead inside and outside of your organizationGenerate ideas, grounded decisions, and long-term value
Part philosophy, part business, and part history, Everything Connects offers the wisdom of 2,500-year-old Eastern philosophies and the interconnected insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Couple that with Fortune 100 corporate cross pollination for creativity and startup thinking for how to adapt with ease, and you'll quickly discover that Everything Connects.
This isn't just a quick fix for your next financial quarter; this is how you succeed in the long run. It is a systemization of the best practices of spirituality and entrepreneurship-loaded with knowledge, humor, and humanity.
Reviews / Votes
"Provides true framework." Entrepreneur 20141110 "The focus on mindfulness in Everything Connects sets it apart to traditional type-A thinking." Fast Company 20141110 "Success in business comes when Everything Connects." Forbes 20141110More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
0 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-183075-1 (9780071830751)
Schweitzer Classification
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Drake Baer Faisal Hoque
Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability
How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability
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Persons
Faisal Hoque is the founder of MiND2MiND Exchange, B2B ForeSight, and other companies. He is the author of several books and regularly contributes to Fast Company and Huffington Post. Formerly of GE and other global brands, Hoque's work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Forbes. The editors of Ziff-Davis Enterprise named him one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology. Follow him @faisal_hoque or visit faisalhoque.com.
Drake Baer is a contributing writer for Fast Company, where he covers the intersection of psychology and work. Though he now interviews the foremost minds in business for a living, he's spent years exploring the world.
Drake Baer is a contributing writer for Fast Company, where he covers the intersection of psychology and work. Though he now interviews the foremost minds in business for a living, he's spent years exploring the world.
Content
FOREWORD xiii
PROLOGUE xvii
INTRODUCTION: RENAMING ROLES xxi
PART I
WHEN, WHO, AND HOW ARE YOU?
CHAPTER 1
UNDERSTANDING WHEN, WHAT, ANDWHO WE ARE 3
CHAPTER 2
MINDFUL EXPERIENCE, AUTHENTIC SELF 31
CHAPTER 3
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WETALK ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER 55
CHAPTER 4
LONG-TERM PLANS, DYNAMIC PRESENT 77
PART II
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, SHARED CULTURES,AND OTHER RHYTHMS
CHAPTER 5
STRUCTURES OF INNOVATION 101
CHAPTER 6
PERFORMING INNOVATION 127
CHAPTER 7
LEADING, SUSTAINING, AND OTHERWAYS TO GROW 149
PART III
FLOWING IDEAS, GROUNDED DECISIONS,AND LONG-BURNING VALUE
CHAPTER 8
CREATING CONSTANT CREATION 173
CHAPTER 9
BLUEPRINTING DECISIONS 195
CHAPTER 10
WHEN VALUE BECOMES LONG TERM 215
EPILOGUE 235
NOTES 239
RECOMMENDED READING 249
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 255
INDEX 259
PROLOGUE xvii
INTRODUCTION: RENAMING ROLES xxi
PART I
WHEN, WHO, AND HOW ARE YOU?
CHAPTER 1
UNDERSTANDING WHEN, WHAT, ANDWHO WE ARE 3
CHAPTER 2
MINDFUL EXPERIENCE, AUTHENTIC SELF 31
CHAPTER 3
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WETALK ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER 55
CHAPTER 4
LONG-TERM PLANS, DYNAMIC PRESENT 77
PART II
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, SHARED CULTURES,AND OTHER RHYTHMS
CHAPTER 5
STRUCTURES OF INNOVATION 101
CHAPTER 6
PERFORMING INNOVATION 127
CHAPTER 7
LEADING, SUSTAINING, AND OTHERWAYS TO GROW 149
PART III
FLOWING IDEAS, GROUNDED DECISIONS,AND LONG-BURNING VALUE
CHAPTER 8
CREATING CONSTANT CREATION 173
CHAPTER 9
BLUEPRINTING DECISIONS 195
CHAPTER 10
WHEN VALUE BECOMES LONG TERM 215
EPILOGUE 235
NOTES 239
RECOMMENDED READING 249
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 255
INDEX 259