Book description
There is perhaps no leadership challenge more daunting than managing creativity—and more urgent than delivering breakthrough innovation. How do you harness some of the most passionate, intelligent people in your organization without stifling them? How do you simultaneously unleash their energy and channel it into something tangible? Lina Echeverría offers seven proven principles through which new ideas come to fruition, from unleashing passion and drive, and embracing productive conflict, to emphasizing excellence and structure while living values that liberate creativity. As team catalyst, the leader delivers results while nurturing intuition and growing talent. These principles apply well beyond traditional creative domains, propelling innovation across entire organizations. Drawing on the author’s considerable experience assembling and nurturing cutting-edge teams at Corning Inc., Idea Agent shows readers how to juxtapose creative freedom with management rigor and lead dedicated professionals as they generate and execute one great innovation after another.Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Prologue—Leadership for Fast-Paced Innovation
- My Personal Journey—Conflict in Art and Science
- Passion 1—Into the Ring of Fire
- My Personal Journey—Finding My Wings
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Passion 2—Let the Best Take Flight
- NOT ALL THE PASSIONATE ARE CREATED EQUAL
- BUILD FROM RELATIONSHIPS AND HIRE WITH HEART
- EMBRACE AND FINE-TUNE EVERY PLAYER IN THE ORCHESTRA
- PLAYERS AS COACHES
- MAKE ROOM FOR INTUITION
- SUPPORT CREATIVES TO BRING IN ALL THEIR TALENTS
- LET THEM FOLLOW THEIR HEARTS
- THE GOLDEN RULE: GET TO KNOW THEM, GET TO KNOW THEM, GET TO KNOW THEM
- FULFILL THEIR EXPANSION OR RISK LOSING THEM
- My Personal Journey—Standing Up for Values
- Passion 3—Live Values That Liberate Creativity
- My Personal Journey—Demand for Excellence in the Tropical Rain Forest
- Passion 4—Demand Excellence and Enrich Lives
- My Personal Journey—Culture in the South Pacific
- Passion 5—Create a Culture
- My Personal Journey—An Urgency for Structure
- Passion 6—Structure a Clear Organization
- My Personal Journey—On My Way to France
- Passion 7—Provide Authentic Leadership
- Epilogue—Let Life Continue
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Idea Agent
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2012
- Publisher(s): AMACOM
- ISBN: 9780814432181
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