Innovators Development

2015 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the...

When you have an idea for a new product, it’s a pivotal moment. This device of yours will enhance the lives of the people who use it, earn you extra money, and have a significant impact on the world. However, there’s much more to a successful product than the quality of the original idea. Why do some products fly off the shelves and others not even reach the market? That’s what this book will explain.

Clayton M. Christensen is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Michael E. Raynor is a director at Deloitte Research. Together, they outline an innovative plan that urges businesses to create disruption rather than fleeing from it. Named one of 2003's Best Business Books by Business Week, this book is a Wall Street Journal and New York Times best seller.

The founders of a respected Silicon Valley advisory firm study legendary category-creating companies and reveal a groundbreaking discipline called category design. Winning today isn’t about beating the competition at the old game. It’s about inventing a whole new game—defining a new market...

Did you ever want to start 3D printing but think it might be too difficult to learn? Do you feel that the subject matter is overly technical and possibly out of reach? Or do you believe that it would be just too complicated to even get started? We know the struggle very well and understand how you feel. In this book, we will help you to overcome all of these obstacles and more. Not only do we offer a brief history of how 3D printing came to be, we will help guide all prospective hobbyist on how to get started from scratch.

Everyone knows the phrase, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” A singular link goes further. It is a connection that creates something qualitatively new, not just an improvement, but a shift in kind. Claude Shannon joined logic and communication to launch digital computation.

Welcome to Innovative Thinking: Book Overview In a world defined by breakneck transformations, legacy success metrics are rapidly shifting. Relying strictly on hoarded information or memorized theories is no longer sufficient to thrive. Instead, long-term professional distinction is directly bound to your capacity to think differently, dive deeply into complex problem spaces, and deliver novel, high-value solutions. This textbook is engineered as a foundational architecture to equip you with the exact mental tools needed to handle modern economic and managerial problems using an innovative,...

Entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow (Wired, Fast Company, The New Yorker, and cofounder of Contently) analyzes the lives of people and companies that do incredible things in implausibly short time. How do some startups go from zero to billions in mere months? How did Alexander the Great...

Master life-coach, Lyn Christian, has helped people for nearly three decades to uncover the infallible elements that, when mapped and used for guidance, reveal their worth to themselves and to the world. Once these elements are revealed, Christian’s clients have increased their sense of self, raised their level of confidence, improved connection, and created a path to purpose and personal fulfillment. Christian calls these unique and personal elements the salt of the soul, or Soul Salt.

Two of the biggest obstacles to business success are poor communication and poor relationships between team members and leaders. Most don’t realize this, and even fewer have the tools to solve these problems. You don’t have to be most leaders. Intelligent Huddles shows you how to plan, implement, and run daily huddles to improve communication and effectiveness in any organization. Andrea Hemmer uses her in-depth knowledge of neuroscience and expert communication techniques to deliver a brilliant new framework for the daily huddle.

Tony Wagner’s groundbreaking bestseller—“a road map for parents who want to sculpt their children into innovative thinkers” (USA TODAY) and a guide for “an employer looking to have a pipeline of creative talent” (Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO). Harvard education expert Tony Wagner explores...

Too often, the stories we tell about the world's most celebrated innovators leave out people from varied backgrounds, identities, experiences, and geographies. Innovation Currency challenges that narrative. Innovation is not exclusive to Silicon Valley founders or corporate strategists. It's a natural human practice that unfolds in classrooms, barbershops, community centers, and corner offices alike.

While many entrepreneurs and innovators have brilliant ideas, they desperately need the skills to successfully articulate their vision to investors, prospective customers, employees, and stakeholders. In this informative and empowering book, David Riemer breaks down the storytelling clutter so you can gain the attention you need to succeed. If you have a groundbreaking invention in mind or have a plan to solve worldwide problems, Get Your Startup Story Straight is the tool you need to create better customer-focused solutions, motivate more backers, and dominate in the market.

Faced with the choice of starting a company or joining a large corporation, Steve Jobs believed that it was "more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy". But for innovators inside established companies, making a distinction between being a pirate and joining the navy is a fallacy. We have to figure out a way to become pirates in the navy! This is a step-by-step guide to getting continuous innovation done in companies and reshaping them in the process. It is for anyone involved in corporate innovation and driving company change.

Have you ever come up with an idea for a new product or service, but didn't take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Or at work, have you had what you thought could be a big idea for your company - perhaps changing the way you develop or distribute a product, provide customer service, or hire and train your employees? If you have, but you haven't known how to take the next step, you need to understand what the authors call the innovator's method.

Combined Series Summary for Lead Like Books Discover the Leadership Secrets of History's Most Transformational Leaders This groundbreaking leadership series reveals how four extraordinary leaders transformed failure into triumph, adversity into advantage, and impossible challenges into historic victories. Through compelling storytelling and documented accounts, learn the battle-tested principles that built empires, saved nations, and revolutionized industries. From Steve Jobs's journey from college dropout to technology visionary, to Donald Trump's transformation of a Queens construction ...

Today's established companies must find new ways to reignite their entrepreneurial DNA and jumpstart revenues--or risk losing their way. By working with startup companies, Jim Stengel, renowned consultant to Fortune 500 companies and the former global marketing officer for Procter & Gamble, says...

2015 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the...

Four questions drive innovation success. You'll find them in the Value Proposition Matrix. Like the corners of a foundation, starting with four fundamental questions will put your new venture on solid footing. The Value Proposition Matrix explains how to use these questions to sharpen any business idea - be it a new product, service, or model - and chart an efficient path forward. This simple innovation methodology has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs and students, and inspired some of the most respected organizations in the world, including Fortune 500 companies, major hospital systems, ...

In The Innovator's Handbook, award-winning designer and author Hussain Almossawi helps designers and creatives harness their fire, flex their courage, and supercharge their ideas to create remarkable products, services, and experiences. The simple lessons in this book will empower you to develop the types of ideas and products that continually change the world.