Author : Sarah Thurber
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 2014-12-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781941798034
Use the power of deliberate creative thinking to solve your next problem, meet your next challenge, or seize your next opportunity. This simple, powerful FourSight thinking pad is designed in 4-page sets, with a page for each step of the FourSight process.
Author : Peter Drucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317601351
How can management be developed to create the greatest wealth for society as a whole? This is the question Peter Drucker sets out to answer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. A brilliant, mould-breaking attack on management orthodoxy it is one of Drucker’s most important books, offering an excellent overview of some of his main ideas. He argues that what defines an entrepreneur is their attitude to change: ‘the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity’. To exploit change, according to Drucker, is to innovate. Stressing the importance of low-tech entrepreneurship, the challenge of balancing technological possibilities with limited resources, and the organisation as a learning organism, he concludes with a vision of an entrepreneurial society where individuals increasingly take responsibility for their own learning and careers. With a new foreword by Joseph Maciariello
Author : Jacie Maslyk
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 1506336299
Build the essential 4—creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking! Go beyond theory and learn how to systematically integrate STEAM and Maker spaces that prepare students for real-world experiences. This engaging resource outlines step-by-step processes to help anyone start their STEAM and Maker journey. Includes charts, checklists, web links, and profiles to help you make meaningful subject area connections and tap your students’ natural curiosity. You’ll learn to: Integrate STEAM and Making into daily practice Differentiate instruction for all learners Align with core standards and The Next Generation Science Standards
Author : Arthur P. Molella
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1935623680
The companion book to an upcoming museum exhibition of the same name, Places of Invention seeks to answer timely questions about the nature of invention and innovation: What is it about some places that sparks invention and innovation? Is it simply being at the right place at the right time, or is it more than that? How does “place”—whether physical, social, or cultural—support, constrain, and shape innovation? Why does invention flourish in one spot but struggle in another, even very similar location? In short: Why there? Why then? Places of Invention frames current and historic conversation on the relationship between place and creativity, citing extensive scholarship in the area and two decades of investigation and study from the National Museum of American History’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The book is built around six place case studies: Hartford, CT, late 1800s; Hollywood, CA, 1930s; Medical Alley, MN, 1950s; Bronx, NY,1970s; Silicon Valley, CA, 1970s–1980s; and Fort Collins, CO, 2010s. Interspersed with these case studies are dispatches from three “learning labs” detailing Smithsonian Affiliate museums’ work using Places of Invention as a model for documenting local invention and innovation. Written by exhibition curators, each part of the book focuses on the central thesis that invention is everywhere and fueled by unique combinations of creative people, ready resources, and inspiring surroundings. Like the locations it explores, Places of Invention shows how the history of invention can be a transformative lens for understanding local history and cultivating creativity on scales of place ranging from the personal to the national and beyond.
Author : Marcy Levy Shankman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1118821769
A how-to guide to help for facilitators and instructors develop emotionally intelligent leadership capacities in their students The Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Facilitation and Activity Guide delivers a comprehensive curriculum for those who want to help students foster the 19 emotionally intelligent leadership (EIL) capacities presented in the book Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: A Guide for Students. Research from around the world has demonstrated that there is a relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership. For the all-new second edition, the authors have completely rewritten all the modules according to their revised, data-based EIL model. These activities bring theory into practice, targeting specific learning outcomes that will help students become better leaders. This guide will allow you to lead students through the Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Student Workbook and can be used with or without the Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Inventory, which helps students to assess their EIL capacities. Contains 23 all new modules consisting of step-by-step instructions for facilitating leadership activities Reflects 19 emotionally intelligent leadership capacities derived from new research Provides hands-on learning experiences and case studies that allow students to enhance their leadership abilities Includes clear instructions for modifying activities to fit any setting or time constraint The Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students suite of resources offers an immersive and transformative educational experience, fostering growth and promoting intense self-reflection. Students will be empowered to develop into the effective leaders of the future.
Author : Thomas J. Flaherty
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
A comprehensive look at how utilities are driving clean energy innovation With Bright Moves, expert utilities consultant Tom Flaherty examines the past, present, and future of innovation in the utilities industry. He explores the complexities of what it truly means to innovate, considers the past and current disruptors driving innovation, and discusses the role of research and development in how utilities need to approach their businesses in an era of technology and market disruption. The book includes detailed profiles of today’s top innovators to illustrate: • What types of challenges utilities face today • How successful innovation requires intentional and consequential actions • How utilities are rapidly evolving toward broader and more innovative thinking • Why more commercialization is the way forward for the utilities sector These innovators pave exemplary pathways for start-ups and long-established companies alike as they navigate the cleantech transition and other developments. Bright Moves is for innovators in all fields—but especially utilities leadership, business executives from companies engaging utilities, start-up leaders, and other innovation professionals who are driven to succeed in a demanding and quickly changing global economy.
Author : Michael Dugan
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1936780895
Somewhere between Buffalo Bill's Grave and Museum and the Sandstone Ranch it became clear to me that application, not philosophy, needed to be the greater focal point. If my participants were unwilling or unable to put what I had presented into place, what was the use? - Excerpt from Saving Innovation Innovation promised to provide business with profitable growth and competitive advantage; however, the current approaches to innovation do not meet those needs on a regular or repeatable basis. Saving Innovation delivers on that promise by overcoming the greatest and most common obstacle business faces with innovation: where and how to start. Saving Innovation provides an easily followed and implemented innovation game plan for any size business or organization allowing them to realize their goals through my results-oriented method of innovation which stresses fundamentals and user application and has been proven effective for widely varied businesses around the globe. Saving Innovation: - Equips readers of all experience levels in innovation to either initiate or reenergize results-oriented innovation at their workplace or organization and take control of their future, and the future of their business - Inspires readers to begin taking action immediately by providing a positive, simple, and usable approach to the subject - Exposes readers to the power of increased employee engagement as a result of establishing a solid foundational culture of innovation - Presents to readers examples of how to improve their overall professional skill set in areas from holding better meetings to building better teams, preparing for the future, maximizing employee potential and improving communication and recognition
Author : Jeff DeGraff
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0345530705
In today’s frenetic, uncertain world, the “same old, same old” routines are perfect ways to go nowhere fast. What has worked for you before—professionally or personally—no longer gets results. Whether you’ve been downsized, reached the end of a long relationship, or found yourself questioning where you are in life, it’s clear you need to change. To innovate. Make it new. Make yourself new. Now, in this invaluable book, the world-renowned “Dean of Innovation,” Jeff DeGraff, shares his tried-and-true techniques on how to reinvent yourself—creatively and with maximum impact. Innovation You reveals DeGraff’s unique four-step program to bolster your ingenuity and remake your life. From forging ahead in a new career to losing weight to finally pursuing that long-held dream, DeGraff’s strategies are effective and easy to follow. Inside you will learn to • Rethink Innovation: Find ways to think outside the box, seek out diverse opinions, and pay attention to the next great trend. • Rethink Your Approach: Use the Competing Values Framework to identify your natural innovation profile—do you compete, collaborate, create, or control?—and then deliberately draw from the other styles to augment your usual tactics. • Rethink Your Methods: Put your reinvention plan in motion—set specific, realistic, and meaningful targets, cultivate relationships with relevant mentors and experts, and try alternate methods to achieve your goals. • Rethink the Journey: Understand that innovation is a process and that progress comes in cycles rather than a quick straight line. Accept uncertainty, question assumptions, and acknowledge areas where you can improve. Full of invigorating ideas, engaging anecdotes, practical wisdom, and inspiring success stories, Innovation You is your personal road map to reach your highest potential—and experience a bold new way of living.
Author : Lorinda R. Rowledge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000008649
Open innovation enabled through crowdsourcing is one of the hottest topics in management strategy today. Particularly striking – and of vital importance to the world – are the pioneering efforts to apply crowdsourcing technology and open innovation to solve social, environmental, and economic sustainability challenges. CrowdRising sets out these challenges as context and then highlights the experiences of leaders and early adopters, identifies implementation guidelines, critical success factors and lessons learned, and finally projects where the field is going in the future. With a strong focus on the applications of crowdsourcing for innovation, engagement, and market intelligence, the book profiles the initiatives of companies, NGOs, and technology providers using crowdsourcing to develop these solutions to global problems. It addresses the key challenges impacting organizations: 1) identifying more sustainable ways to design, distribute, transport, recycle, and repurpose products; and 2) discovering and implementing the systems needed to transform global economic growth, drive human prosperity, and replenish the planet’s resources.
Author : Daniele Peila
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0429755023
Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art contains the contributions presented at the World Tunnel Congress 2019 (Naples, Italy, 3-9 May 2019). The use of underground space is continuing to grow, due to global urbanization, public demand for efficient transportation, and energy saving, production and distribution. The growing need for space at ground level, along with its continuous value increase and the challenges of energy saving and achieving sustainable development objectives, demand greater and better use of the underground space to ensure that it supports sustainable, resilient and more liveable cities. This vision was the source of inspiration for the design of the logos of both the International (ITA) and Italian (SIG) Tunnelling Association. By placing key infrastructures underground – the black circle in the logos – it will be possible to preserve and enhance the quality of the space at ground level – the green line. In order to consider and value underground space usage together with human and social needs, engineers, architects, and artists will have to learn to collaborate and develop an interdisciplinary design approach that addresses functionality, safety, aesthetics and quality of life, and adaptability to future and varied functions. The 700 contributions cover a wide range of topics, from more traditional subjects connected to technical challenges of design and construction of underground works, with emphasis on innovation in tunneling engineering, to less conventional and archetypically Italian themes such as archaeology, architecture, and art. The book has the following main themes: Archaeology, Architecture and Art in underground construction; Environment sustainability in underground construction; Geological and geotechnical knowledge and requirements for project implementation; Ground improvement in underground constructions; Innovation in underground engineering, materials and equipment; Long and deep tunnels; Public communication and awareness; Risk management, contracts and financial aspects; Safety in underground construction; Strategic use of underground space for resilient cities; Urban tunnels. Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art is a valuable reference text for tunneling specialists, owners, engineers, architects and others involved in underground planning, design and building around the world, and for academics who are interested in underground constructions and geotechnics.
