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Be Less Zombie
How Great Companies Create Dynamic Innovation, Fearless Leadership and Passionate People
Elvin Turner (Author), Richard Johnston (Illustrated by)
9780857088208, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 27 February 2020
416 pages
21.8 x 14.7 x 2.3 cm, 0.59 kg
***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - FINALIST 2021*** Be Less Zombie distils 10 years of field research amongst some of the world's leading innovators into a pragmatic, actionable toolkit. Designed for managers who need more remarkable innovation with repeatable, scalable approaches, it shows readers how to: Turner’s research also delves beyond the business world. He brings insights from a wide range of unexpected, expert sources including a guerrilla negotiator, a cage-fighter trainer, an X-Factor coach, a senior emergency room doctor, and a fashion designer. His 'Turn It On' innovation framework gives leaders and managers tools, processes and pathways to make bolder and more profitable innovation an inevitability, not an anomaly. This book is for: Elvin Turner is an award-winning innovation advisor to global corporations, government bodies, not-for-profit organisations, and start-ups around the world. He is also an associate professor at several business schools. For more information visit www.elvinturner.com. "A must-read for anyone - in any business sector, at any career level - who is passionate about the serious business of innovation. A practical guide to curating a culture of innovation and navigating against the headwinds of organizational status quo." "Most leaders struggle to get the innovation performance they need. This is the practical playbook they've been waiting for."
Simon Collins, Senior Vice President, Mastercard
Andy Billings, Vice President Profitable Creativity, Electronic Arts
About the Author xv Acknowledgements xvii Introduction: Unicorns vs Zombies xix Part One Innovation Strategy For Pragmatists 1 1 The Power of Strategic Intentionality 3 2 The Do-Or-Die Issue of Innovation Performance 8 3 Money Talks 12 4 The Innovation that Customers Buy 15 5 HowMuch Innovation is Enough? 17 6 The Future is Coming Ready or Not 27 7 DetectingWeak Signals from the Future 29 8 Blurred Vision 38 9 What Does the Future Actually Mean? 41 10 The Future and Its Naysayers 47 11 Leading from the Future 49 12 Innovation Strategy: Turn It On 51 13 Quick-Start Innovation StrategyWorkshop 53 Part Two Turning on a Fast-Track Innovation Process 59 14 Why Zombies Hate Innovation Process 61 15 Starting with Insight: The Innovation Particle 65 16 ‘Why’ MattersMoreThan ‘What’ with Customer Insight 72 17 Working with Customer ‘Progress’ Insights 81 18 Framing Great Opportunities 93 19 Catalytic Questions 100 20 Hot Love 109 21 Preparing for Greatness 111 22 Running a Creative Session 122 23 How to Choose the Right Ideas 126 24 The ‘Five-Day Brainstorm’ 134 25 Tracking Idea Progress 137 26 Overcoming the Execution Problem 140 27 Innovation Rocket Fuel 144 28 Innovation Trapdoors 149 29 If You Only Read One Chapter… 166 30 ShowMe theMoney? 191 31 Dead on Arrival 198 32 Your Great Idea Isn’t Enough 224 Part Three Building Your People’s Innovation Capabilities 235 33 Enabling Ingenuity 237 Part Four Time,Money and Talent: How to Resource Innovation 249 34 Who Does It and Who Pays for It? 251 Part Five Innovation Culture for Realists 267 35 Calibrating Culture to Outcome 269 36 BeMore Human 275 37 If Culture Feels tooWoolly, Switch to ‘Space’ 279 38 Bold Ideas aren’t Born on Stage 283 39 Next-Level Creative Culture 292 40 Innovation Fight Club 309 41 Driving with the Handbrake On 317 Part Six Leading an Innovation Reformation 325 42 The Innovation LeadershipMandate 327 43 Innovation Never ‘Just Happens’ 329 44 Mapping the Leadership Territory 332 45 To Boldly Grow 339 46 It Takes a Leader 341 47 You are a User Experience 344 48 Confronting Personal Relevance 352 49 Enduring the Bumps 356 Part Seven Turn It On, Turn It Up 359 50 Turning It On 361 Index 369
Innovation is an argument inside most companies –frail, new ideas versus the overwhelming power of the status quo. An innovation strategy helps create an environment where new ideas can emerge and thrive. It is the single-most important way to build and sustain innovation performance. And it doesn’t have to be difficult.
Great innovation rarely happens without a clear and effective process. This section shares the practical tools used by global innovation leaders that your team can begin using today.
Most organisations want more innovation but few equip their people to actually deliver it. This section provides practical strategies, roadmaps and case studies to help your people out-innovate your competitors.
Business-as-usual makes little provision for bolder innovation.This section helps you rethink how resources are managed and allocated so that the future has a greater chance of showing up.
Culture has been defined as ‘what is ordinary’. Yet most companies demand extraordinary innovation to emerge from their status quo set-ups. This section shows how to move beyond a one-size-fits-all culture to where bigger ideas can emerge and thrive on a repeatable basis.
Innovation is regularly cited as a top three priority amongst leaders, yet the vast majority of their training and experience is in business-as-usual management. This section provides practical tools for leaders who need to lead their organisations to a new level of innovation performance.
You’ve read the book and are ready to start. But where do you begin? What does ‘Day One’ look like? This section provides some pragmatic starting points to turn on and turn up your innovation performance.
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
