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9780071714761: Riding the Waves of Innovation: Harness the Power of Global Culture to Drive Creativity and Growth
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ISBN 10 : 0071714766 ISBN 13 : 9780071714761
Editeur : McGraw Hill, 2010

Synopsis

The authors of the international bestsellerRiding the Waves of Culture broaden theirfocus to help you employ the diversity in yourorganization to foster innovation.

Companies that successfully harness employees'creativity and convert it to businessinnovation are leading the charge today.While this isn't a brand-new concept, no onehas explained how connections between peopleinitially remote from each other generateinnovation--until now. Riding the Waves ofInnovation fills the void.

The key is for leaders and managers like youto carefully address and make the most ofthe three entities that are most vital to yourbusiness's approach to driving innovationthroughout your global culture:

  • The individuals who compose your team.
    Are you encouraging them to championinnovation and bring it to fruition? You'lllearn how such methodologies as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Kolb's LearningStyle Inventory can be developed toavoid stereotyping your people and buildeffective teams.
  • Your teams.
    Are you encouraging them toinnovate?
    Fons Trompenaars and CharlesHampden-Turner teach you to define therole best suited for each team member; reconcileany differences between, or amongst, them; and ensure that their work together isoptimized.
  • Your organization.
    Does it maintain a globalculture of innovation? The authors' in-depthresearch, playfully illustrated via inventivegraphs and business-world anecdotes, willteach you to ensure that adaptability, sharedgoals and values, reliability, and commitmentare all universally acknowledged andembraced aspects of your business's corporateculture.

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À propos de l?auteur

Fons Trompenaars is a renowned experton international management and his book, Riding the Waves of Culture: UnderstandingCultural Diversity in Business, has sold morethan a quarter of a million copies in Englishand has been translated into nineteen languages.His most recent book is Servant-Leadership Across Cultures. Trompenaars hasserved as head of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner, a consulting and training organizationfor international management since 1989.
Charles Hampden-Turner is with TrompenaarsHampden-Turner in Amsterdam. Recognizedas a key business thinker, he hasworked as a consultant for Shell, BP, DigitalEquipment, the BBC, Nissan, and many othercompanies. Until recently, he taught at CambridgeUniversity.

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Éditeur
McGraw Hill
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0071714766
ISBN 13 
9780071714761
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
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Personne responsable
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