Description:Today’s business climate demands breakthroughs, not incremental improvements. Innovators take steps forward, but leapfroggers reinvent their markets and organizations. Where do their game-changing ideas come from? How can you leap over the competition rather than stumble into oblivion? In this revolutionary book, Soren Kaplan shows how to use the power of surprise to blow up the limits holding back your business—and your thinking.How did Gatorade revitalize itself in the wake of Red Bull and Starbucks? How did Etsy come to be? How did Four Seasons become the world’s leading luxury hotel brand? What makes one leader or company thrive while others languish in mediocrity? Kaplan gives business leaders the tools to do exactly what they’re taught to avoid: embrace uncertainty and invite surprises.Leapfrogging connects new research, unconventional strategies and practical tools for navigating the seemingly “messy” process of achieving business breakthroughs. Drawing upon his twenty years of hands-on experience, Kaplan shows that any organization or business function can leapfrog—and he delivers a game-changing formula for rethinking your business:Use unexpected events and surprises to create focus and directionPush personal boundaries to challenge mindsets and assumptionsApply intuition and personal judgment in strategic decision-makingTap into failure as a catalyst for successManage the paradoxes of organizational innovationWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. To get started finding Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
224
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Release
2012
ISBN
1609944968
Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs
Description: Today’s business climate demands breakthroughs, not incremental improvements. Innovators take steps forward, but leapfroggers reinvent their markets and organizations. Where do their game-changing ideas come from? How can you leap over the competition rather than stumble into oblivion? In this revolutionary book, Soren Kaplan shows how to use the power of surprise to blow up the limits holding back your business—and your thinking.How did Gatorade revitalize itself in the wake of Red Bull and Starbucks? How did Etsy come to be? How did Four Seasons become the world’s leading luxury hotel brand? What makes one leader or company thrive while others languish in mediocrity? Kaplan gives business leaders the tools to do exactly what they’re taught to avoid: embrace uncertainty and invite surprises.Leapfrogging connects new research, unconventional strategies and practical tools for navigating the seemingly “messy” process of achieving business breakthroughs. Drawing upon his twenty years of hands-on experience, Kaplan shows that any organization or business function can leapfrog—and he delivers a game-changing formula for rethinking your business:Use unexpected events and surprises to create focus and directionPush personal boundaries to challenge mindsets and assumptionsApply intuition and personal judgment in strategic decision-makingTap into failure as a catalyst for successManage the paradoxes of organizational innovationWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. To get started finding Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.