Jamming: the Art and Discipline of Business Creativity

Business & Money

Kao, John J.

Management & Leadership

Harper Business

Kao presents the essential skills, attitudes and concepts; perspectives needed to bring ideas into fruition as ongoing enterprises. This volume focuses specifically on the entrepreneur, using case studies based on such figures as Peter Ueberroth, Ted Turner, Akira Kimishima, Charles Leighton, and others. In examining the personality and role of accomplished entrepreneurs, it covers the essential tasks involved with breathing life into an enterprise and also examines entrepreneurship as a career. Kao imparts a fascination with those people whose zeal and passion make the difference between business success and failure. The Entrepreneur, part two of a three part series, is the offspring of Entrepreneurship Creativity and Organization: Text, Cases, and Readings. It presents a perspective which experience has found to be essential for both entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial managers. For the past six years, Kao has taught this material, which is based on extensive field research in an acclaimed second-year elective course in the Harvard Business School MBA program. Managing Creativity, the first book in this series, addresses the process by which creative ideas are generated by individuals and organizations. The third book, The Entrepreneurial Organization, examines the process by which enterprises evolve from birth through maturity, and the dilemmas they must address in successfully making such transitions.

The Entrepreneur

PRENTICE/HALL

Focusing on the entrepreneurial firm, this volume examines the skills, attitudes and experience essential to the successful practice of entrepreneurship. It covers the process of opportunity, recognition and idea implementation in two parts: the evolving organization, covering the start-up through rapid growth stage; and the established organization, which deals with issues of maturation.

The Entrepreneurial Organization

Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Organization: Text, Cases, and Readings

Finance

Pearson College Div

Managing Creativity: Text, Cases & Readings

For the past fourteen years, in his Harvard Business School lectures and executive seminars, John Kao has challenged management to exploit the most valuable asset in the corporation: the creative minds of its people. Like jazz musicians in a jam session - playing off one another to create new sounds, at once unpredictable and harmonious - managers themselves must master the skills of creativity to reap unprecedented returns. In Jamming, Kao shows how high-performance companies around the world have learned the lessons of creativity to leap ahead of their obsolete competitors. They have learned to make creativity tangible and actionable, they practice a new managerial mindset, and they have learned to leverage information technology to enhance creative collaboration. From clearing the obstacles to organizational creativity, to conducting a "creativity audit" that assesses the current value of creativity in your company, Jamming shows business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs how to take their companies to an entirely new level of success and growth by fostering an environment that will anticipate tomorrow's needs. Undercut this potential and you endanger tomorrow's opportunities.

Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity

Harpercollins

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