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BL
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1022126
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b776496
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| Main Entry
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Adair, John Eric,1934-
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| Title & Author
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Leadership for innovation : : how to organize team creativity and harvest ideas /\ John Adair.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;Philadelphia :: Kogan Page,, [2007]
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, ©2007
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| Series Statement
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Gale virtual reference library
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (x, 134 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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0749448008
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: 074945136X
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: 0749460113
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: 1280869453
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: 9780749448004
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: 9780749451363
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: 9780749460112
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: 9781280869457
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9780749454791
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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Revised edition of: The challenge of innovation. 1990.
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| Contents
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What is innovation? -- Invention and innovation -- Case study: Google-the world's most powerful internet search engine -- Innovation as incremental change -- The management of change -- Innovation is positive -- All can participate -- Key points -- The conditions for successful innovation -- Management commitment -- Positive strategic thinking -- A long-term perspective -- Responsiveness to change -- Acceptance of risk -- The right internal environment -- Key points -- Organizing for team creativity -- Order and freedom -- Integrating creativity into industry -- Getting the balance right -- Leadership for innovation -- Key points -- Case study: the DNA laboratory -- No class or hierarchical differences -- Leading by example -- The optimum use of resources -- The human resource -- Creeping bureaucracy -- Bureaucracy versus innovation -- Key points -- Case study: Soichiro Honda -- leader for innovation -- The forge of a creative mind -- A creative thinker in action -- A partnership of complementary abilities -- Not problems but opportunities -- Passing on the torch -- Key points -- Real commitment from the top -- The leader as teambuilder -- Giving direction -- Key points -- How to motivate the creative individual -- Selecting creative people -- Characteristics of innovators -- Expectations of creative people -- Creative leadership -- Key points -- Team creativity -- Building on ideas -- Brainstorming -- Team creativity in action -- Team creativity and organization -- How to criticize other people's ideas -- Key points -- Harvesting ideas -- Suggestion schemes -- Quality circles -- Success factors for quality circles -- Towards team creativity -- The importance of training and education -- Key points -- Overcoming resistance to change -- The human need for continuity and change -- Understanding the forces of resistance -- Principle one: plough up the ground -- Principle two: market your ideas -- Principle three: have a practice run -- Principle four: make change incremental -- Principal five; leadership is essential -- Key points -- Conclusion: Leadership for innovation -- Key points.
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| Abstract
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Provides help to leaders of all types to meet the challenge of innovation, and achieve profitable growth through team creativity.
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Creative ability in business-- Management, Case studies.
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Technological innovations-- Management, Case studies.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Leadership.
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Creative ability in business-- Management.
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Technological innovations-- Management.
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Creativiteit.
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Leiderschap.
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Vernieuwing.
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| Dewey Classification
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658.4/092
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| LC Classification
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HD53.A32 2007eb
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85.08bcl
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| Added Entry
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Adair, John Eric,1934-
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