Leadership for innovation how to organise team creativity and harvest ideas /

Provides help to leaders of all types to meet the challenge of innovation, and achieve profitable growth through team creativity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adair, John Eric, 1934-
Corporate Author: Gale Group.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London ; Philadelphia : Kogan Page, 2007.
Series:Gale virtual reference library
Subjects:
Online Access:Available for Universiti Teknologi MARA via Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click here to access
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245 1 0 |a Leadership for innovation  |b how to organise team creativity and harvest ideas /  |c John Adair.  |h [electronic resource] : 
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500 # # |a Rev. ed. of: The challenge of innovation. 1990. 
500 # # |a Includes index. 
505 0 # |a 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 -- 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 -- Organizing for team creativity -- Order and freedom -- Integrating creativity into industry -- Getting the balance right -- Leadership for innovation -- Key points -- 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 -- 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 -- Real commitment from the top -- The leader as teambuilder -- Giving direction -- Key points -- How to motivate the creative individual -- Selecting creative people -- Characteristics of innovators -- Expectations of creative people -- Creative leadership -- Key points -- Team creativity -- Building on ideas -- Brainstorming -- Team creativity in action -- Team creativity and organization -- How to criticize other people's ideas -- Key points -- Harvesting ideas -- Suggestion schemes -- Quality circles -- Success factors for quality circles -- Towards team creativity -- The importance of training and education -- Key points -- Overcoming resistance to change -- The human need for continuity and change -- Understanding the forces of resistance -- Principle one: plough up the ground -- Principle two: market your ideas -- Principle three: have a practice run -- Principle four: make change incremental -- Principal five; leadership is essential -- Key points -- Conclusion: Leadership for innovation -- Key points. 
520 # # |a Provides help to leaders of all types to meet the challenge of innovation, and achieve profitable growth through team creativity. 
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