Through a series of short stories and brief case studies about great innovators, this book will help managers and entrepreneurs rethink their innovation processes, using the tools outlined in the book. The eight chapters include narratives on: From Ideas to Action; Breaking the Rules; Learning Creativity from our Kids; Innovation as a Team Sport; and Innovating for Those with Less. The basic idea is that the best way to become a world-class innovator is to learn from other world-class innovators and to study what they did and how they did it.
Contents:
- Stories That Inspire About People Who Aspire
- From Ideas to Action
- Break the Rules — Intelligently
- Innovation is a Team Sport
- Innovate Everywhere, Everything, Everyone
- Restoring Lost Innovativeness
- Learning Creativity from Our Kids
- Innovating for Those with Less
Readership: Management professionals, practitioners, general public, students and academics interested in innovation.
Key Features:
- The book is built around highly readable, terse stories that convey meaning to the reader
- It offers stories that are unconventional and show innovation in a new and creative light
- The book describes fairly ordinary people, who did extraordinary feats of innovation, as inspiration for entrepreneurs and innovators