Innovation Levels the Playing Field in a Reinvented World
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The reinvented world ushered in a new reality that demands more from Americans--from how we engage with the world and operate our businesses to how we source for jobs, advance our careers, and live our daily lives.
The new world of business requires disciplined disruption and focused dismantling of outworn concepts, products, and processes. The new rules for success mean continuous and incremental reinventions by business leaders and professionals that keep their organizations innovating in front of the curve. Companies that miss marketplace and industry inflection points will be forced to play catch-up or risk going out of business.
U.S. companies must prepare their leaders for navigating and “seeing around corners”, while teaching managers how to inspire, motivate and reward in innovative ways. Knowledge workers and institutional “wisdom keepers” capable of innovating in this new world of business will evolve employer-employee-contingent worker relationships.
Thriving in a new reality requires a new blueprint. Innovation in a Reinvented World + web training provides the why-who-what-and how playbook for innovating in these uncertain times.
The new world of business requires disciplined disruption and focused dismantling of outworn concepts, products, and processes. The new rules for success mean continuous and incremental reinventions by business leaders and professionals that keep their organizations innovating in front of the curve. Companies that miss marketplace and industry inflection points will be forced to play catch-up or risk going out of business.
U.S. companies must prepare their leaders for navigating and “seeing around corners”, while teaching managers how to inspire, motivate and reward in innovative ways. Knowledge workers and institutional “wisdom keepers” capable of innovating in this new world of business will evolve employer-employee-contingent worker relationships.
Thriving in a new reality requires a new blueprint. Innovation in a Reinvented World + web training provides the why-who-what-and how playbook for innovating in these uncertain times.
Key Points by Chapter
Great Recession, Great Disruption (Intro)
“The Great Recession ushered in disruptions that will affect Americans for decades. Many of the old rules of business, managing your career, and living your life no longer apply--we need a different playbook for succeeding in a reinvented world.”
Old World of Business vs. the New World of Business (Chapter 1)
“Disruptions are all around us. Economic downturns don’t happen overnight and neither do missed opportunities." (Chapter 1)
“Five over-arching tenets govern changes in a reinvented world: size doesn’t matter; become your own safety net; innovation is the new currency; cultural collaboration is the new influence; reinvention and transformation must occur before reaching an inflection point.”
“The United States has two options, either of which will change the course of this country for years to come:
1.We can aggressively take steps to re-level the playing field--what President Obama in his State of the Union Address called out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building the rest of the world.
2.We can choose to ignore what’s happening at our peril.”
“Five over-arching tenets govern changes in a reinvented world: size doesn’t matter; become your own safety net; innovation is the new currency; cultural collaboration is the new influence; reinvention and transformation must occur before reaching an inflection point.”
“The United States has two options, either of which will change the course of this country for years to come:
1.We can aggressively take steps to re-level the playing field--what President Obama in his State of the Union Address called out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building the rest of the world.
2.We can choose to ignore what’s happening at our peril.”
Part 2: Succeeding in the New World of Business
Thirty-nine “innovation mojo” leaders and thought professionals ranging from the micropreneur to the multinational executive share their insights for thriving in this new reality
Vision & Values - Essential Element #1 (Chapter 2)
“Visionary leaders rethink and reinvent strategic vision for the new world of business; reshaping their company’s core values to model consistent messaging, measurements, and accountability that set the tone of trust for their organizations.”
Entrepreneurship - Essential Element #2 (Chapter 3)
“The entrepreneurial spirit has no walls and no boundaries; it sparks innovative thinking that creates new growth opportunities and sustains the business while evolving the culture.”
“Companies that design and build entrepreneurial capabilities into their workforce culture extend the reach of their influence beyond their own organization to a wider ecosystem of customers, partners, suppliers, and community supporters.”
“Companies that design and build entrepreneurial capabilities into their workforce culture extend the reach of their influence beyond their own organization to a wider ecosystem of customers, partners, suppliers, and community supporters.”
Navigation - Essential Element #3 (Chapter 4)
“Navigational guides--leaders capable of seeing around corners--often develop a sixth sense of early marketplace shifts occurring in their industry. Change shapers lead others through workplace and personal transformation by bridging organizational disruptions and preparing the workforce for innovating and creating value in new ways.”
Responsible Risktaking - Essential Element #4 (Chapter 5)
“Responsible risktaking is a cultural value that weaves itself throughout the company and is part of the organization’s DNA.”
“Responsible risktakers walk their talk--they ask the tough questions and do the right thing even when the right thing does not equate to the easy thing.”
“Responsible risktakers walk their talk--they ask the tough questions and do the right thing even when the right thing does not equate to the easy thing.”
Disruption & Discontinuity - Essential Element #5 (Chapter 6)
“In a reinvented world the complexity of global problems and the speed at which beginnings and endings occur requires different types of leaders and thought professionals—knowledge workers and institutional wisdom keepers.”
“Innovating in the new world of business will increasingly mean self¬-disruption—the ability for leaders and professionals to act on and assume ownership for introducing change in the workplace, within their careers, and beyond their own spheres of influence, and in their careers.”
“Business disruptions and discontinuities, whether evolutionary or forced, cause angst for leaders, stress for organizations, and difficulties for individuals.”
“Innovating in the new world of business will increasingly mean self¬-disruption—the ability for leaders and professionals to act on and assume ownership for introducing change in the workplace, within their careers, and beyond their own spheres of influence, and in their careers.”
“Business disruptions and discontinuities, whether evolutionary or forced, cause angst for leaders, stress for organizations, and difficulties for individuals.”
Experimental & Exploration - Essential Element #6 (Chapter 7)
“Research and development, when tied to a company’s innovation engine, is an integral part of the new world of business—keeping innovators agile, flexible and driven by results.”
Innovation & Invention - Essential Element #7 (Chapter 8)
“Companies that consider research and development as an investment strategy versus something to eliminate at the first whiff of economic distress—will differentiate themselves in the new world of business.”
“Successful leaders in a reinvented world tap (and re-tap) the inventiveness of their ecosystem—workforce, customers, partners, suppliers, and communities—as a means of continuous innovation, new business growth, and career opportunities.”
“Successful leaders in a reinvented world tap (and re-tap) the inventiveness of their ecosystem—workforce, customers, partners, suppliers, and communities—as a means of continuous innovation, new business growth, and career opportunities.”
Transition & Training - Essential Element #8 (Chapter 9)
“Companies that disregard the need to make training and higher learning investments in their workers will pay a steep price in the reinvented world."
“Companies often gloss over or disregard workforce learning at the expense of business sustainability.”
“Companies often gloss over or disregard workforce learning at the expense of business sustainability.”
Networking & Collaboration - Essential Element #9 (Chapter 10)
“Leaders capable of building and sustaining relationship ecosystems that extend their company’s influential reach will differentiate themselves in the new world of business.”
“Leading and connecting the dots in the new world of business requires successfully utilizing large data and social networks to assure risktaking is responsible and innovation occurs naturally and systematically.”
“Leading and connecting the dots in the new world of business requires successfully utilizing large data and social networks to assure risktaking is responsible and innovation occurs naturally and systematically.”
Execution - Essential Element #10 (Chapter 11)
“Getting
the job done responsibly and credibly in the new world of business
means showing up like you mean it--engaged in bold decisions using new
business models--creating disciplined disruptions via ripples or waves
that positively change your company, your organization, your
communities, the country and the world for the better.”
Part 3: The Practical Side of Reinvention
Preparing leaders, managers and professionals for the 10 complimentary webinars that will
cover the “how” of thriving in a reinvented world
cover the “how” of thriving in a reinvented world
Navigating Your Way (Chapter 12)
“We need to teach people how to “see differently”. Some people walk into a conference room and see four walls; other people walk into a room and see the color of the paint, a loose ceiling tile, or how they can innovate the telephony used during the call. We need people to see beyond four walls if we want them to navigate and see around corners.”
“Actor Forest Whitaker in the film Hurricane Season says to a group of young basketball players: “Practice, practice, practice—execution—it’s what makes it part of your DNA.” Vision is an essential element for innovating in a reinvented world, but vision without execution is just an idea. Practice, practice, practice disciplines individuals and internalizes the process--execution becomes second nature for the organization.”
“Actor Forest Whitaker in the film Hurricane Season says to a group of young basketball players: “Practice, practice, practice—execution—it’s what makes it part of your DNA.” Vision is an essential element for innovating in a reinvented world, but vision without execution is just an idea. Practice, practice, practice disciplines individuals and internalizes the process--execution becomes second nature for the organization.”
The Reinventing Organization (Chapter 13)
“There is no one size fits all for reinventing an organization--begin where you are today, determine where your business needs to be, and how fast you need to get there. This becomes your reinvention strategy.”
“Innovating in the new world of business requires organizational cultures where self-disruption becomes the norm, reinventing and transforming in front of the curve the reality. Reinvention readiness is the organization’s disruption sweet spot.”
“Innovating in the new world of business requires organizational cultures where self-disruption becomes the norm, reinventing and transforming in front of the curve the reality. Reinvention readiness is the organization’s disruption sweet spot.”
The Reinventing Leader (Chapter 14)
“Leaders who continuously innovate and create value for their companies and their customers will differentiate themselves in the new world of business.”
“Innovating in complex environments requires cognitive skills and higher mental processes such as perception and intuition, and will come to define how companies, organizations, and leaders refer to great leaders in the future.”
“Innovating in complex environments requires cognitive skills and higher mental processes such as perception and intuition, and will come to define how companies, organizations, and leaders refer to great leaders in the future.”
The Reinventing Professional (Chapter 15)
“In the new world of business, the body of knowledge for professionals will not remain static--they will add and remove items, swap out and build complementary skills—and redesign their BOK as conditions change and workplace environments demand different skills.”
“Seeing around corners is not only for executives and leaders, but also for career professionals who must learn how to self-lead in a reinvented world."
“Seeing around corners is not only for executives and leaders, but also for career professionals who must learn how to self-lead in a reinvented world."
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