The New Age of Innovation:
Driving Co-Created Value Through Global Networks
by C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishan
This book reveals that the key to creating value and the future growth
of every business depends on accessing a global network of resources to
co-create unique experiences with customers, one at a time. To achieve
this, CEOs, executives, and managers at every level must transform their
business processes, technical systems, and supply chain management,
implementing key social and technological architecture requirements to
create an ongoing innovation advantage.
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Leadership Brand:
Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value
by Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood
In this book, the authors explore the advantages of a branded approach to corporate
leadership. They use hard data to show that a company whose leadership embodies its
unique brand will achieve stronger market value than competitors. In other words,
there is real value in creating a leadership brand and the authors have created the
first step-by-step guide for doing it.
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Leading Innovation: How to Jump Start Your Organization's Growth Engine
by Jeff DeGraff and Shawn Quinn
Leading Innovation presents a unique, holistic approach to creating innovation
at all levels of your organization. Authors Jeff DeGraff and Shawn Quinn have created
a real-world, how-to playbook of integrated creativity tools and techniques for
understanding where innovation comes from and harnessing its power to create a
culture where real growth happens on a constant basis. Based on DeGraff's proven
methods-which he teaches in his innovation program at the University of Michigan
Ross School of Business and has applied at Fortune 500 companies around the world-this
breakthrough guide focuses on systematically integrating business practices and connecting
them to the value propositions they produce. You'll discover how to diagnose obstacles
to innovation, realistically assess your options, and develop an integrated program of
action that can be adjusted to meet the needs of any group, department, or business
unit throughout your organization.
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Managing the Unexpected:
Resilient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty
by Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe
Unexpected events happen all the time in organizations: coal mines collapse,
fresh spinach causes grave illness, and toys laced with lead threaten our children.
First published in 2001, this updated second edition presents a timely and practical
guide for "high-reliability organizing" in an age of ongoing uncertainty. The authors'
solutions-oriented approach shows how to anticipate and respond to unimagined events
with flexibility rather than rigidity.
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Supply Chain Science
by Wallace Hopp
This book focuses specifically on the science of supply chains: the collection
of people, resources and activities involved in bringing materials and information
together to produce and deliver goods and services to customers. It offers a framework
for understanding how complex production and supply chain systems behave, and provides
the "why" of supply chains.
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Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance
by Kim S. Cameron
Introducing a new leadership field of the same name, Positive Leadership presents
a concise, accessible and practical guide to strategies that can help leaders reach
beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results,
and positively deviant performance. Positive Leadership is based on analyses of
organizations that have achieved levels of success that are exceptional. For example,
the Rocky Flats Nuclear Arsenal closure and cleanup crew completed their assignment
60 years ahead of schedule, $30 billion under budget, and made the area 13 times
cleaner than was required by federal standards. This company's achievement far
exceeded every knowledgeable expert's predictions of performance--it was abnormally
positive. Carefully examining organizations such as this one has helped uncover some
atypical leadership strategies that enable levels of performance which exceed expectations,
excel beyond the norm, and reach almost impossible levels of excellence.
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Making the Impossible Possible
by Kim S. Cameron and Marc Lavine
Once in a great while we find an organization whose performance is so spectacular
and so beyond expectations that it is difficult to believe that this level of success
is possible. Most people hold in their minds standards of what excellence represents,
and when we encounter performance that markedly exceeds those standards, we are left
to wonder how such an aberration is possible. This book tells the story of positively
deviant performance. Our account describes how a single organization experienced a
devastating loss—the loss of mission and subsequent languishing performance—and then, despite
its problematic circumstances, achieved remarkable success. The story highlights the factors
that account for this extraordinary level of performance, and explain the elements that can be
helpful for leaders in other organizations interested in enabling their own spectactular success.
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General Management and Business Acumen
