Leadership for Innovation: How to Organize Team Creativity and Harvest Ideas

ISBN-13: 9780749454791 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 144 str.

John Adair

Opis

New ideas and new ways of doing things are one of the main ingredients in sustained business success, but how does one create the right conditions for innovation?

Leadership for Innovation will help readers 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 shows how to inspire teams to go one step further and generate the kind of ideas that are the foundations of future success.

Spis treści

• • 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

O autorze

John Adair is acknowledged internationally as an authority on leadership. The world's first Professor of Leadership Studies, he advises many organisations in business, government, education, health and the voluntary sector. An effective speaker with a valuable message, he is one of the very few figures in recent years to have transformed the debate as to what effective leadership is all about.

John Adair has recently been made United Nations Chair of Strategic Leadership. Based in Turin, he has launched a strategic leadership programme in association with the UN. He has also received the Lifetime Achievement in Leadership Award and China has made him its first Honorary Professor of Leadership. The author of over 50 books, now in 25 languages, on leadership and management development, he continues to write and teach throughout the world, inspiring new audiences with his timeless and timely vision of leadership.