Leadership for Innovation
How to Organize Team Creativity and Harvest Ideas
1st Edition
Published on 3. February 2009
144 pages
978-0-7494-6011-2 (ISBN)
Description
New ideas and new ways of doing things are one of the main ingredients in sustained business success, but how do you create the right conditions for innovation?
Leadership for Innovation will help you to create an innovative climate that encourages the development of new products and services. Drawing upon real-life examples including Google, Honda and 3M, John Adair sets out practical ways for bringing about change in organizations. As well as identifying the characteristics of an innovative organization, he discusses key topics such as organizing for team creativity; motivating creative people, how to build on ideas and how to be a creative leader and team member.
Leadership for Innovation will help you to inspire your team to go that one step further and generate the kind of ideas that are the foundations of future success.
Leadership for Innovation will help you to create an innovative climate that encourages the development of new products and services. Drawing upon real-life examples including Google, Honda and 3M, John Adair sets out practical ways for bringing about change in organizations. As well as identifying the characteristics of an innovative organization, he discusses key topics such as organizing for team creativity; motivating creative people, how to build on ideas and how to be a creative leader and team member.
Leadership for Innovation will help you to inspire your team to go that one step further and generate the kind of ideas that are the foundations of future success.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
File size
1,64 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7494-6011-2 (9780749460112)
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Book
02/2009
1st Edition
Kogan Page Ltd
€34.00
Shipment within 10-20 days
Person
John Adair is the world's leading authority on leadership and leadership development. Over a million managers worldwide have taken part in the Action-Centred Leadership programmes he pioneered, and he advises many organizations in business, government, education, health and the voluntary sector. John is the author of over 50 books, including the leadership classic Not Bosses But Leaders, (also published by Kogan Page), and he continues to write and teach throughout the world, inspiring new audiences with his vision of leadership.
Content
Chapter - 01: What is Innovation?; Chapter - 02: The Conditions for Successful Innovation; Chapter - 03: Organizing for Team Creativity; Chapter - 04: Case Study. The DNA Laboratory; Chapter - 05: Case Study. Soichiro Honda - Leader for Innovation; Chapter - 06: Real Commitment from the Top; Chapter - 07: How to Motivate the Creative Individual; Chapter - 08: Team Creativity; Chapter - 09: Harvesting Ideas; Chapter - 10: Overcoming Resistance to Change
