Winning the Innovation Game

by Robert B. Tucker and Denis Waitley

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800714946
• ISBN13: 9780800714949
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Winning the Innovation Game

This book is the indispensable guide to winning big - at life. In our time of very rapid changes, we all need to become an innovator. Whilst the entrepreneur finds a need and fills it, the innovator anticipates or creates a need and fills it. This book is divided into 12 chapters. They are: (1). Winners in a World of Change; (2). Your Winning Strategy; (3). An Innovation Self-Inventory; (4). Becoming Your Own Trend-Spotter; (5). Unhooking Your Prejudices; (6).Working With Ideas; (7). The Power of Informed Intuition; (8). Spotting Opportunities in Change; (9). Building Your Breakthrough Ideas; (10). The Elements of Risk-Taking; (11). Building Your Team; (12). Staying in Your Game. Each of these chapters is fraught with useful insights. But, because of the exigency of space I can only mention 8 of them. They are: (1). Successful innovation is not a feat of intellect, it is a feat of will. The innovators have learned how to make change work for them rather than against them; (2). Wide reading helps you make better decisions even though you might not specifically be able to say why; (3). If someone hasn't told you recently that your ideas are crazy, you haven't been doing much thinking in the Innovation Mode; (4). Most ideas move to other ideas and you build on them. You've got to experiment; (5). The really valuable factor is intuition. It helps the innovator sense when a problem exists; (6). Observe a trend and come with a way to exploiting it. Search for solutions in negative trends; (7). By gathering strategic information, soliciting feedback, and looking for ideas to borrow, you will increase the chances that your ideas will succeed; and (8). The most dangerous moment comes with victory. You must continue to keep abreast with change. The way this book is structured makes it very easy and a real pleasure to read. Digest this book and you will have so many valuable insights for your business and life. Dr Jusuf Hariman.

...a real gem!...many valuable expert tips for readers from this book!

Winning the Innovation Game by Robert Tucker & Denis Waitley How to Profit from Today's Rapid Changes by Robert Tucker Innovative Secrets of Success by Robert Tucker & Denis Waitley During the late eighties/early nineties, while pursuing my personal interests in understanding 'entrepreneurial opportunity search & recognition' skills, I came across three wonderful books. Two were entitled, 'Opportunities: A Handbook for Opportunity Search' by Edward de Bono, & 'The Innovation Formula' by Michel Robert. The remaining third book was 'Winning the Innovation Game' by Robert Tucker & Denis Waitley. During the period, both authors were well-known thought leaders, with the former in 'innovation circles' & the latter in 'peak performance.' 'Winning the Innovation Game' captured the pioneering work of the principal author, who had interviewed more than fifty successful & innovative executives, entrepreneurs & financiers during the eighties. Their 'innovative secrets of success' were sprinkled generously throughout the book, arranged with the following layout of chapters: - The Innovator Defined; - Winning Strategy; - Innovation Self-Inventory; - Becoming Your Own Trend Spotter; - Improving Quality of Your Thinking; - Proven Strategies for Working with Ideas; - Tapping the Power of Your Informed Intuition; - Finding Innovative Opportunities of Your Own; - Discovering Your Breakthrough Idea; - Building Your Breakthrough Idea; - Elements of Risk Taking; - Building Your Team; - Staying on the Game; I reckon the most exciting & valuable aspects of the author's interview results in the book were the following revelations: - how to spot changes & trends before your competitors do; - how to analyze trends & format strategies to profit from them; - how to develop your own "future scan system" to keep you from missing out on important developments; - how to distinguish between passing fads & the kind of changes that will reshape the marketplace; I have also enjoyed exploring the self-questioning checklist in one of the chapters, which I would like to reproduce as follows: - what do I really enjoy doing that I'd like to do more of? - where's the niche that hasn't been developed? - how can I position myself in a way that is different? - how can I make a living from doing what to one is fun, challenging & never boring? - what might my customer group want if it were available? - what can I offer they (the competitors) aren't offering? - what would make this process or procedure more convenient? - where is the market inefficiency? - what's next for me, inc? - What would people pay for that isn't available yet? - how can I do this less expensively? - how can I add value to the service or product I now produce? The other titles I have listed above are basically abridged audio versions of the book. 'How to Profit from Today's Rapid Changes' was published in March 1988 by Simon & Schuster, while the other was published in March 198

Become an innovator, not an imitator

One of the problems in business, even today is that so many people are playing the game called, follow the follower. Essentially you have one person playing the Pied Piper and and everybodyelse following like kids and mice.This great book by Dr. Denis Waitley and Robert Tucker will show you how to become an innovator, not an imitator ... an indispensable guide to winning big at life.

A classic in business books-Think like an innovator

I bought this book by Dr. Denis Waitley and Robert B. Tucker largely because it was so positively recommended by Tom Peters. And I wasn't dissappointed.Shortly after reading this book, I potted a trend that made me a ton of money. This book was one of the first, perhaps even the first book, to challenge people to come out of the box---to think out of the box, be creative, become a trend spotter, build a teamof supporters and how to be a prudent risk taker.All in all, a great book by these two gentlemen.