Develop your unique design thinking mindset Build a creative toolbox that inspires new ideas Examine how design thinking applies across industries Challenge your creativity methods Design thinking is not just the property of graphic designers. This approach to creating solutions by thinking from the customer perspective can lead to new and innovative ideas that old methods could not approach.??Design Thinking For Dummies??provides a jump-start to...

Welcome to our Assemble You Learning Podcast. You may think it's a better idea to just dive headfirst into the world of entrepreneurship. If you have the necessary network and a brilliant idea, why not start your own business, right? Being an entrepreneur is good. However, if you have more than one brilliant idea, or would rather focus on a specific product or structure, intrapreneurship might be even better. On the one hand you can concentrate on...

In this bestselling book, authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen build on what we know about disruptive innovation to show how individuals can develop the skills necessary to move progressively from idea to impact. By identifying the winning behaviors of the world's best innovators, Dyer, Gregersen, and Christensen outline five discovery skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers: associating,...

Today, innovation is seen by business leaders and the media as the key to growth and success-a burning issue in every company, from startups to the Fortune 500. In this space, Fahrenheit 212 (dubbed "The Epicenter of Innovation" by Esquire) is viewed as a high-performance innovation SWAT team, able to solve the most complex, mission-critical challenges. In its first ten years of life, under Mark Payne, Cofounder, President, and Head of Idea Development,...

Without creativity, innovation is impossible. Creativity is the key driver of innovation, but too many teams and projects are organized in ways that stifle new ideas. It's your job as a manager to create the right conditions for creativity to thrive-and to be part of the process yourself. Fortunately, anyone can use a method-driven approach to teach and learn to be more creative. The HBR Guide to Unlocking Creativity will show you how to design a...

Explains how to foster progress, shows how to remove obstacles, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships that disrupt employees' work lives, and offers advice on enhancing employees' inner work life.

Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is folly. Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success. A brilliant guide to one of the most profound changes of our time, Wikinomics...

Filled with practical information and written in an inimitable conversational style; this book includes tools to give any business an inspired team; supersized income; and a virtual stadium full of engaged; high-paying customers. --

Life is too short to just come in for the pay check Let's face it, you work for the best years of your life and spend most of your waking hours on the job, so make sure you are energized, fulfilled, and buzzing. Switched On will help you leap outside your comfort zone and awaken your creativity. Blast through the old thinking Switched On shows you how to think like an entrepreneur-have ideas, spot the opportunities, see the future, and make things...

Most companies know that their creative performance falls far short of potential, but they don't know what to do about it. Corporate Creativity has the answers.