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About the Book : Leadership for Innovation will help you to create an innovative climate that encourages the development of new products and services. Drawing upon real-life examples including Google, Honda and 3M, John Adair reveals: the characteristics of an innovative organization; the conditions for successful innovation how to organize for team creativity how to motivate creative people how to build on ideas how to be a creative leader and team member. Leadership for innovation will help you to inspire your team to generate the kind of ideas that are the foundations of future success. Contents: Part 1: What is Innovation: Invention and innovation - Case study: Google - the world-s most powerful internet search engine - Innovation as incremental change - The management of change - Innovation is positive - All can participate - Key Points - Part 2: The Conditions for Successful Innovation - Management commitment - Positive Strategic Thinking - A long term perspective - Responsiveness to change - Acceptance of risk - The right internal environment - Key Points - Part 3: Organizing for Team Creativity - Order and freedom - Integrating creativity into industry - Getting the balance right - Leadership for Innovation - Key Points - Part 4: Case Study: The DNA Laboratory - No class or hierarchical differences - Leading by example - The optimum use of resources - The human resource - Creeping bureaucracy - Bureaucracy versus innovation - Key Points - Part 5: Case Study: Soichiro Honda - Leader for Innovation - The forge of a creative mind - A creative thinker in action - A partnership of complementary abilities - Not problems but opportunities - Passing on the torch - Key Points - Part 6: Real Commitment from the Top - The Leader as team builder - Giving direction - Key Points - Part 7: How to Motivate the Creative Individual - Selecting creative people - Characteristics of innovators - Expectations of creative people - Creative Leadership - Key Points - Part 8: Tea
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