Leading Innovation: Creating Workplaces Where People Excel So Organizations Thrive

by Brian McDermott and Gerry Sexton

Book Overview

One of the most critical challenges in business today is to find new ways to create growth. The best answer lies in the untapped talent, creativity and passion of people in an organization. But how... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9077256059
• ISBN13: 9789077256053
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Nova Vista Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great information...Practical Tools

Leading Innovation is a great resource for leaders at all levels and in all types of organizations. The information provided is presented with clarity and useful frameworks. I also found the tools provided very practical and relevant...a great addition to every leader's toolkit.

Invaluable resource

Book review: A most impressive book on leading innovation! It's full of wisdom, important stories and best-of-the-best group activities. Eveyone who wants to lead creative change in their organization should have this in their business reference library. Sherry Sweetnam President, Sweetnam Communications Inc.

Leading Innovation: Creating Workplaces Where People Excel

From the first quote by Kahlil Gibran in Chapter 1, McDermott and Sexton show us how to immediately give ourselves permission to celebrate the innate skills and talent of those who work for us. Then, they show us how, by delivering concrete models of implementation and the research to back it up. Far from ignoring the societal trends of bullying and conforming particularly espoused by television shows such as Donald Trump's, "The Apprentice," or "The Weakest Link," the authors expose the long term danger of trying to quash the freedom for all of us to create, think, and deliver new and 'innovative' ideas in the workplace. They remind us that an organization is nothing without the people who work there; that its success depends on leaders who can galvanize employees by directing their efforts with strategy that venerates ingenuity and enterprise.