Synopses & Reviews
In
The Innovation Paradox, Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes argue that failure has its upside, success its downside. Both are steps toward achievement, and the two extremes are not as distinct as we imagine. In today's business economy, it's not success or failure -- it's success
and failure that lead to genuine innovation. History's great innovators, from Thomas Edison and Charles Kettering to Bill Gates and Jack Welch, saw failure as an important stepping-stone -- and with this groundbreaking book, you too can learn how to become more failure tolerant, more risk friendly, and therefore more innovative. Today's most prominent businesspeople agree that
The Innovation Paradox has the formula for failure and success down to a science,
Make no mistake: If you're looking to reinvent yourself, your ideas, or your business model, this book is your sure-fire way to start.
Review
Jane Alexander Actress, author, and former Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts The authors make a clear case for understanding that failing precedes almost all great wins in our society....A valuable book for just about anyone in our competitive world.
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Richard Pollak The Nation A welcome antidote to the numbing conventional wisdom about what constitutes corporate success and failure. It shows how to make the business environment both vital and humane.
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Harlan Cleveland President Emeritus, World Academy of Art and Science Truth always seems to come in small paradoxical packages. This [one]...reveals the fusion of opposites as the essence of truth.
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Tom Peters I'm furious with Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes! They've written the book I always wanted to write.
This is the best management book I've read since Farson's last one, and doubtless the best I'll read until his next one. He is the master. Move over Drucker.
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Michael Murphy Author of Golf in the Kingdom Promises to become a classic in the genre of modern wisdom literature.
Synopsis
In
The Innovation Paradox, Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes argue that failure has its upside, success its downside. Both are steps toward achievement, and the two extremes are not as distinct as we imagine. In today's business economy, it's not success or failure -- it's success
and failure that lead to genuine innovation. History's great innovators, from Thomas Edison and Charles Kettering to Bill Gates and Jack Welch, saw failure as an important stepping-stone -- and with this groundbreaking book, you too can learn how to become more failure tolerant, more risk friendly, and therefore more innovative. Today's most prominent businesspeople agree that
The Innovation Paradox has the formula for failure and success down to a science,
Make no mistake: If you're looking to reinvent yourself, your ideas, or your business model, this book is your sure-fire way to start.
Table of Contents
ContentsIntroduction
1 The Success-Failure Fallacy
Tangled Line Says Who? Why Success Resembles Failure, and Vice
Versa Failure Pride
2 The Agony of Victory, the Thrill of Defeat
Like Making Love Peak Experiences Craving Excitement Crisis Lovers Sweet Adversity Management by Calamity
3 Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
Bards of Failure Splendid Failure Productive Mistake Making Success Disguised as Failure
4 Nothing Fails Like Success
Marooned by Success Everybody Hates a Winner The Personal Price of Success Feeling Like a Fraud Looking Back on a Great Future
5 The Success Hobble
The Ashes of Success Roads Best Not Taken Don't Just Survive
6 Innovating with Attitude
The Risk-Friendly Workplace Sprinters and Milers Wild Ducks Minnesota Mining and Mistake Making
7 Managing in the Postfailure Era
Treating Success and Failure Alike Earning Empathy Sharing Barnraising
8 Fear Management
The Underlying Fear Making Friends with Fear Putting Fear to Work
9 Samurai Success
Winning Isn't Anything Zen Warriors Jackson's Way No Regrets How Do You Measure Success? Beyond Success and Failure
Acknowledgments