Who hasn’t been rocked by change in the last few years? While we’ve all been forced to rethink, adjust, and adjust again, the gravitational pull of the status quo remains a stealthy enemy of innovation. What does it take to wake up an organization’s inner insurgent to change ahead of change? These times demand every organization dramatically amp up its agility, inventiveness, and adaptability. Drawing on her research and work inside some of the world’s most innovative and progressive organizations, Polly LaBarre lays out actionable strategies for building a perpetual innovation engine:
– What mindsets, practices and behaviors allow you to see the world differently and subvert the status quo
– Where to look for the future—and how to generate a whole new map of possibility
– How to embed innovation as a social process
– What it takes to create a robust architecture of collaboration for a distributed, ever-evolving cohort of innovation peers and partners
– How to build a resilient organizational microbiome by embedding the mindset and methods of experimentation into everything you do