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The Innovation-Friendly Organization: How to cultivate new ideas and embrace the change they bring

by Anna Simpson
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Fostering innovation through cultivating organizational culture.

If you're grappling with how to steer your organization toward more inventive waters, this book could be your compass. Anna Simpson lays out a clear map showing the essential cultural traits for fostering innovation. It's about transforming the workplace atmosphere to allow ideas to flourish—perfect if the aim is not just to innovate but to make it a sustainable practice within your team or organization.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Innovation-Friendly Organization: How to cultivate new ideas and embrace the change they bring

by Anna Simpson
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ISBN: 9781137483003
Authors: Anna Simpson
Publisher: Springer
Date of Publication: 2017-02-27
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Sociology, Personal Development, Business
Related Topics: Social Issues, Management, Business, Productivity, Leadership, Personal Development
Goodreads rating: 4.0
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This book explores five cultural traits – Diversity, Integrity, Curiosity, Reflection, and Connection – that encourage the birth and successful development of new ideas, and shows how organizations that are serious about innovation can embrace them. Innovation – the driver of change and resilience – It is totally dependent on culture, the social environment which shapes how ideas emerge and evolve. Ideas need to breathe, and culture determines the quality of the air. If it’s stuffy and lacks flow, then no idea, however brilliant, will live long enough to fulfil its potential. Creating these innovation-friendly conditions is one of the key challenges facing organizations today, and one that is especially difficult for them – focused as they are on efficiency and control. Innovation, Anna Simpson argues, begins with diversity of thought and the opposite of conformity and standardisation. Likewise, with ongoing pressures to deliver results before yesterday, how can organizations allow sufficient space for the seemingly aimless process of following interesting possibilities and pondering on the impact of various options? Anna Simpson shows how large organizations can adapt their culture to enable the exchange of different perspectives; to support each person to bring their whole self to their work; to embrace the aimlessness that fosters creative experimentation; to take the time to approach change with the care it deserves, and – lastly – to develop the collective strength needed to face the ultimate ‘sledgehammer test’.
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Fostering innovation through cultivating organizational culture.

If you're grappling with how to steer your organization toward more inventive waters, this book could be your compass. Anna Simpson lays out a clear map showing the essential cultural traits for fostering innovation. It's about transforming the workplace atmosphere to allow ideas to flourish—perfect if the aim is not just to innovate but to make it a sustainable practice within your team or organization.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.