Leadership for Innovation

Best-selling author with over 500,000 books sold worldwide and translated into 25 languages New ideas lead to new products, business success and a motivated team Describes how to create the right environment for creativity to flourish The first professor of Leadership Studies in the world and the most distinguished figure in the field. The Sunday Times Adair is rightly regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern leadership. Businessballs.com

Leadership for Innovation will help you to create an innovative climate that encourages the development of new products and services - the lifeblood of business success. John Adair identifies the characteristics of innovative organizations and describes how leaders can encourage new ideas.New ideas and new ways of doing things are one of the main ingredients in sustained business success, but how do you create the right conditions for innovation? Leadership for Innovation will help you to create an innovative climate that encourages the development of new products and services. Drawing upon real-life examples including Google, Honda and 3M, John Adair sets out practical ways for bringing about change in organizations. As well as identifying the characteristics of an innovative organization, he discusses key topics such as organizing for team creativity; motivating creative people, how to build on ideas and how to be a creative leader and team member. Leadership for Innovation will help you to inspire your team to go that one step further and generate the kind of ideas that are the foundations of future success.