The Innovator's Discussion: The Conversational Skills of Entrepreneurial Teams

ISBN-13: 9781138497924 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 174 str.

Betsy Campbell

Opis

This book shows readers how high-performance teams verbally accomplish their work, and offers tools and techniques to cultivate these conversational competencies. Through engaging examples, exercises, and games, this book enables readers and their team mates to build a conversational advantage.

Spis treści

Part 1. Defining the problem  1. Misperceptions that prevent teams from innovating successfully  2. Why popular approaches to innovation aren’t enough  Part 2. Explaining interpretive language  3. Collaborative language  4. Provisional language  5. Reflective language  Part 3. Developing conversational competencies  6. Exercises to build verbal skills  7. Making interpretation visible through documentation  Part 4. Using interpretive language in various situations  8. Interpretive language and a team’s final pivot  9. Conversational approaches for other dilemmas of founding teams  10. Organizational culture and language  Part 5. Learning beyond the book  11. Yes but… common questions  12. A community to harness the power of words

O autorze

Betsy Campbell, Ph.D., researches the practices of teams at the forefront of science and technology. As a Penn State faculty member, she leads an initiative focused on the democratization of entrepreneurship. Earlier in her career she founded Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs, Inc. and co-directed the MIT CI Lab.