The Truth About Innovation transforms today's most important innovation research into 50 proven "truths". Max Mckeown delivers plain, powerful advice on how to:
- increase creativity
- encourage collaboration
- co-create with customers
- overcome indifference
- make ideas into money
- thrive on change...and much more.
This is the definitive, evidence-based guide to innovations - a set of bedrock principles you can rely on, regardless of your organization, role or title. Drawing on over 15 years of the author's research, consulting, training and writing experience, it can transform the way you manage innovation and the results achieved.
The Truth About Innovation provides the guidance you need to overcome the innovation-related problems that all managers face and at the same time improve your managerial effectiveness.
Part of The Truth About Series, each title covers an entire field of knowledge in a sharp and entertaining way. With approximately 50 honest answers to important questions in every book, you will find yourself thinking aha as you read each page.
The Truth and nothing but The Truth.
YOU CANT CONTROL WAVES SO LEARN TO SURF
Innovation rocks. It rolls. It makes the world go round. In a definitive set of home-truths, youll discover how to harness its power to increase creativity, collaboration and profit. Are you ready to change the world?
55 PROVEN INNOVATION PRINCIPLES and techniques that work.
Simply the best thinking
THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
If you don't like eating someone else's dust, put this little gem of a book in every one of your collaborators' hands. That's what I'm doing right now. Watch out world!!
JIM BELASCO, PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT AT SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY, AND AUTHOR OF TEACHING THE ELEPHANT TO DANCE
Perceptive analysis of what works and what doesnt, with useful illustrations based on the experiences of real businesses. Thought-provoking, grounded and realistic.
PROFESSOR KHALID AZIZ, THE AZIZ CORPORATION
Forthright, informative, witty and highly readable. This isnt about new for old, its about new from old; whoever said we shouldnt reinvent the wheel should have read this book.
JONATHAN DONOVAN, TOWNHOUSE CONSULTING AND EX-HEAD OF 02 EMPLOYEE RELATIONS