Synopses & Reviews
On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal shows leaders how to establish a workplace environment that encourages creativity and innovation while creating a sense of passion and importance. Part of the Leader to Leader Guides, which offer a wellspring of rich insight and information from top leadership thinkers, it features leading experts on strategic innovation, sparking creativity, and transforming organizations.
Drawn from Leader to Leader, the award-winning journal, On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal brings together Gary Hamel, Stephen Jay Gould, Noel Tichy, John Seely Brown, and other thought leaders to offer practical guidance for those who seek to lead their companies through organizational change. The book addresses such key issues as the need to focus on the customer and the necessity of building community within the enterprise while strengthening the organization's position in the community beyond its walls.
Each of the four volumes in the Leader to Leader Guides-On Mission and Leadership, On Leading Change, On High-Performance Organizations, and On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal -- is organized around an essential topic with a diversity of views presented in clear, short chapters. These essential collections provide leaders with insight and inspiration to take their organizations to new levels of excellence.
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On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal features the best thinking from top experts on strategic innovation, sparking creativity, and transforming organizations. Written in a concise style that is ideal for the busy executive with little spare time, the book presents a stellar roster of contributors. On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal is one title in the Leader to Leader Guides, which draw from the most compelling articles that have appeared in Leader to Leader, the Drucker Foundation's award-winning journal.
Synopsis
Die 'Leader to Leader Guides' basieren auf der preisgekr nten 'Leader to Leader'-Zeitschrift der Drucker Foundation. Sie widmen sich Themen von allgemeinem Interesse und vermitteln dem Leser eine Vielfalt von Meinungen und Ansichten zu einzelnen Themen. Diese handlichen, pr gnanten B nde bieten wertvolle Informationen und Einsichten in Form praktischer und attraktiver Zusammenstellungen relevanter Artikel.
On Creativity, Innovation and Renewal enth lt die besten aktuellen Tipps, Ideen und Meinungen von Spitzenexperten zum Thema strategische Innovation, Kreativit tsf rderung und Unternehmensneuordnung. Mit Beitr gen von hochkar tigen Experten, wie z.B. Gary Hamel, Stephen Jay Gould und Karl Weick, die das Thema pr gnant auf den Punkt bringen. Die ideale Lekt re f r vielbesch ftigte F hrungskr fte, denen wenig Zeit zum Lesen bleibt.
Synopsis
On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal features the best thinking from top experts on strategic innovation, sparking creativity, and transforming organizations. Written in a concise style that is ideal for the busy executive with little spare time, the book presents a stellar roster of contributors. On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal is one title in the Leader to Leader Guides, which draw from the most compelling articles that have appeared in Leader to Leader, the Drucker Foundation's award-winning journal.
Learn about Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal from these Thought Leaders
John Seely Brown
James Champy
Stephen Jay Gould
Gary Hamel
Frances Hesselbein
Randy Komisar
Dorothy Leonard
Costas Markides
Nigel Nicholson
Harriet Rubin
Patricia B. Seybold
Peter Skarzynski
Walter Swap
Noel Tichy
About the Author
Frances Hesselbein is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and editor-in-chief of its journal Leader to Leader. She is also the lead editor for the best-selling Drucker Foundation Future Series. Hesselbein served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. from 1976 to 1990 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, in 1998.
Rob Johnston is president and CEO of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. He was executive producer for Leading in a Time of Change, a 2001 video featuring Peter F. Drucker and Peter M. Senge and for the Nonprofit Leader of the Future video teleconference. He is a senior editor for the Leader to Leader journal, and has contributed a chapter to Enterprising Nonprofits (Wiley, 2001).
Table of Contents
Introduction.
About the Editors.
1. When the Role Is Called in 2010 (Frances Hesselbein).
2. Innovation: The New Route to New Wealth (Gary Hamel and Peter Skarzynski).
3. The Spice of Life (An Interview with Stephen Jay Gould).
4. Gene Politics and the Natural Selection of Leaders (Nigel Nicholson).
5. The Growth Imperative (Noel Tichy).
6. How Managers Can Spark Creativity (Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap).
7. The Business Case for Passion (An Interview with Randy Komisar).
8. Sustaining the Ecology of Knowledge (John Seely Brown).
9. Making the Leap to Internet Time (Patricia B. Seybold).
10. The Residue of Leadership: Why Ambition Matters (James Champy).
11. The Challenge of Strategic Innovation (Costas Markides).
12. The New Merchants of Light (Harriet Rubin).
Index.