CHAPTER 20

Cooking in a Larger Context

Societies, Organizations, and Leadership

While skilled improvisation is fundamental to creating an innovative culture, there are also many connections between the themes covered in this book and cutting-edge work on societies, organizations, and leadership. Going back to our soup analogy, we are talking about the very nature of the community, restaurant, and its administration, each of which affect the quality of the soup. It’s worth taking a moment to look further outward to the incredible new work that has developed across literatures, to see the role that building a culture of innovation can play in improving our world.

First, from a big picture perspective, the dimensions of innovation soup all play ...

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