The Truth about Innovation

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Pearson UK, 29 dec 2011 - 260 pagina's
'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. 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.
 

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A beautiful idea is never perfect
5
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste
11
A great innovation deserves a great name
15
Any fool can do either genius does both
21
All new ideas are made of old ideas
25
Bet small to win big
29
Better to ask forgiveness than permission
33
Creativity is a process not an accident
37
Its a cultural thing
127
Just enough disunity for progress
133
Leaders get the innovation they deserve
137
Little differences make a big difference
141
Look outside for a bigger brain
145
Madonna knows more than your boss
149
Meeting of minds not mindless meetings
153
Most things will fail get over it
157

Creativity is its own reward
41
Crowds are mad bad and advantageous to know
45
Cut innovation some slack
51
Cure apathy by sharing purpose
55
Do what your competition wont
59
Dont get lost in translation
63
Different structural strokes for different folks
67
Even useless can be useful
71
Every company needs an idea market
75
Everyone can learn to think better
79
Find the buzz that works for your people
83
Free your children before someone eats them
87
Get your ducks in a row
91
Got to share more to get more
95
Hell hath no fury like talent spurned
99
Hire for how they learn not what they know
103
How much is the future worth?
107
Ideas are fragile handle with care
111
Innovate your way out of recession
115
Innovation can be measured
119
Innovation is not everywhere
123
Not all networks are created equal
161
Open spaces open minds
165
People judge you first then your ideas
169
Power is originalitys best friend
173
Quick fixes can lead to great innovations
177
Reinventing the wheel is a good thing
181
Second can be better than first
185
Some ideas are easier to swallow
189
Sometimes you have to gamble everything
193
Success is an sshaped curve
197
The ideal design is the simplest design
201
This is going to hurt
205
Understand change to make progress
209
Welcome to the innovation factory
213
What you know can hurt you
217
Who the hell cares where it was built?
223
You cant control the waves so learn to surf
227
References
231
Acknowledgements
247
About the author
249
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Max McKeown is a new breed of management guru. Brilliant, young, original and entertaining, he could become the most listened-to British business thinker of the new era. He works as a strategic adviser for four of the five most admired companies in the world and is a well-known speaker on subjects including innovation, engagement, human potential, customer experience, marketing, team building, and competitive advantage. He has been elected to the Customer Service Hall of Fame, been nominated as a Star of Human Resources by Personnel Today, and been featured on national and international radio, television, and newspapers. Max has written six books, including E-Customer; an insight into evolving customer behaviour, Why They Don't Buy; an end-to-end guide to building profitable customer relationships across multiple channels and Unshrink, featuring the myths that stop people doing their best work and a set of new principles to engage their interest and ability.

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