On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal: A Leader to Leader Guide / Edition 1

by Frances Hesselbein, Rob Johnston

Overview

On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal features the best thinking from top experts on strategic innovation, sparking creativity, and transforming organizations. Written in a concise style that is ideal for the busy executive with little spare time, the book presents a stellar roster of contributors. On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal is one title in the Leader to Leader Guides, which draw from the most compelling articles that have appeared in Leader to Leader, the Drucker Foundation's award-winning journal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787960674
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/22/2002
Series:	Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum , #71
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.73(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Frances Hesselbein is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and editor-in-chief of its journal Leader to Leader. She is also the lead editor for the best-selling Drucker Foundation Future Series. Hesselbein served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. from 1976 to 1990 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, in 1998.

Rob Johnston is president and CEO of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. He was executive producer for Leading in a Time of Change, a 2001 video featuring Peter F. Drucker and Peter M. Senge and for the Nonprofit Leader of the Future video teleconference. He is a senior editor for the Leader to Leader journal, and has contributed a chapter to Enterprising Nonprofits (Wiley, 2001).

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Table of Contents

Introduction.

About the Editors.

1. When the Role Is Called in 2010 (Frances Hesselbein).

2. Innovation: The New Route to New Wealth (Gary Hamel and Peter Skarzynski).

3. The Spice of Life (An Interview with Stephen Jay Gould).

4. Gene Politics and the Natural Selection of Leaders (Nigel Nicholson).

5. The Growth Imperative (Noel Tichy).

6. How Managers Can Spark Creativity (Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap).

7. The Business Case for Passion (An Interview with Randy Komisar).

8. Sustaining the Ecology of Knowledge (John Seely Brown).

9. Making the Leap to Internet Time (Patricia B. Seybold).

10. The Residue of Leadership: Why Ambition Matters (James Champy).

11. The Challenge of Strategic Innovation (Costas Markides).

12. The New Merchants of Light (Harriet Rubin).

Index.

Editorial Reviews

Twelve essays and interviews drawn from the Drucker Foundation's journal include "How Managers Can Spark Creativity" by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap; "The Challenge of Strategic Innovation" by Costas Markides; and an interview with Stephen Jay Gould in which he discusses the limited basis for applying concepts of natural evolution to organizational theory. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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