Conventional business wisdom tells us that entrepreneurs are society’s main source of innovation. Young founders leave college with a big idea, get to work in a garage, and build something that changes the world. Typical corporate employees, strangled by slow-moving bureaucracy, are blocked from making transformative discoveries. In Driving Innovation from Within, strategist and advisor Kaihan Krippendorff disproves one of today’s biggest business myths to highlight lessons for innovators and leaders. He reveals how many of the modern world’s most impactful creations were invented by passionate employee innovators. If it were left up to go-it-alone entrepreneurs, we would not have mobile phones, personal computers, or e-mail. Distilling more than 150 interviews with internal innovators and leading experts along with insights from the latest research and today’s most successful companies, from Tencent and Amazon to Mastercard and Starbucks, Krippendorff lays out a step-by-step playbook to unlock innovation from the inside. He maps the barriers that frustrate efforts to disrupt from within and provides tools to remove them, detailing how visionary leaders can create islands of freedom inside an organization to activate existing employees’ potential and beat startups at their own game. Driving Innovation from Within is a practical and inspiring guide to leadership from all levels for those who want the fulfillment of changing the world without leaving their job in order to do it.

Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs (Columbia Business School Publishing)

Business & Money

Krippendorff, Kaihan

Management & Leadership

Columbia Business School Publishing

Proximity: How Coming Breakthroughs in Just-in-Time Transform Business, Society, and Daily Life

Wolcott, Robert C.

Industries

A Fast Company blogger and former McKinsey consultant profiles the next generation business strategists: the "Outthinkers" "Outthinkers" are entrepreneurs and corporate leaders with a new playbook. They see opportunities others ignore, challenge dogma others accept as truth, rally resources others cannot influence, and unleash new strategies that disrupt their markets. Outthink the Competition proves that business competition is undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift and that during such revolutions, outthinkers beat traditionalists. Outthink the Competition presents stories of breakthrough companies like Apple, Google, Vistaprint, and Rosetta Stone whose stunning performances defy traditional explanation and will inspire readers to outthink the competition. Core concepts in the book include: <ul>
<li>Discover the Eight Dimensions of Disruption</li> <li>Learn to play by the Outthinker Playbook</li> <li>Develop the Five Habits of the Outthinker</li> <li>Implement the Outthinker Process</li> </ul>
It's time to buck tradition in order to stay ahead. Outthink the competition and uncover opportunities hiding in plain sight.

Outthink the Competition: How a New Generation of Strategists Sees Options Others Ignore

wiley

Inside The Way of Innovation, corporate strategist Kaihan Krippendorff explains how you can adapt and thrive by recognizing, understanding, and utilizing the ancient Asian approach to innovation. He illustrates how companies like Microsoft and Nokia use this powerful wisdom, and how you too can pass through the five stages of innovation:
<ul>
<li>Metal (Admit you are stuck)</li>
<li>Water (Conceive new winning options)</li>
<li>Wood (Assemble your resources)</li>
<li>Fire (Break out your innovation)</li>
<li>Earth (Make it sustainable)</li>
</ul>With this book, you have the ancient strategies you need to lead the way to a more productive - and profitable - future.

The Way of Innovation: Master the Five Elements of Change to Reinvent Your Products, Services, and Organization

Platinum Press

Today's global economy is a battleground. To survive and thrive, you'll need every weapon you can get. Microsoft, Sony, and Starbucks use business practices based on the ancient Chinese military text The Thirty-Six Stratagems-now you can, too. Author Kaihan Krippendorff explains how to apply each stratagem to make your business profits soar, such as: 
<ul>
<li>
Stratagem #1-Kill with a Borrowed Knife: Indirect attacks on your adversaries can catch them off guard. </li>
<li>
Stratagem #19-Watch the Fire on the Other Shore: Companies that temper power with patience will be more competitive in the long run. </li>
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Stratagem #33-Hide a Dagger Behind a Smile: Threatened adversaries resist-trusting ones do not. </li>
</ul> With Hide a Dagger Behind a Smile, you can take on your competitors and win-one battle at a time.

Hide a Dagger Behind a Smile: Use the 36 Ancient Chinese Strategies to Seize the Competitive Edge

International

Platinum Pr

Fast Company blogger, NYU Professor and former McKinsey consultant, Kaihan Krippendorff, profiles the next generation business strategists: the "Outthinkers" and reveals the secrets to how they drive innovation and create competitive advantages in business.\nEvery domain - war, science, business - evolves through periods of radical change, revolutions. Such times divide us into "Thinkers" and "Outthinkers." Outthinkers step outside of the accepted paradigms in which thinkers operate. They act differently because they see the world differently. 
In business, Outthinkers are entrepreneurs and corporate leaders who follow a new playbook. They see opportunities others ignore, challenge dogma others accept as truth, rally resources others cannot influence, and unleash new strategies that disrupt their markets. Technological change is accelerating, the nature of business competition is shifting, and during such revolutions, Outthinkers beat traditionalists.\nThe second edition of Outthink the Competition explores new stories of breakthrough companies such as PillPack, Flatiron Heath, and Lemonade Insurance along with updates on well-known disruptors like Google, Netflix, and Aldi. These companies' stunning performances defy traditional explanation and will inspire readers to outthink the competition. Core concepts in the book include:\nThe 8Ps Framework: Eight Dimensions of Innovation The Outthinker Playbook: 5 Stratagems used by leading companies Develop a culture of creativity and innovation Learn a process to keep good ideas and experiments flowing

Outthink the Competition: How Innovative Companies and Strategists See Options Others Ignore

Strategy Learning Center LLC DBA Outthinker

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