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by Jeff Dyer (Author), Nathan Furr (Author), Curtis Lefrandt (Author)
Innovation experts Jeff Dyer, Nathan Furr, and Curtis Lefrandt reveal the critical ingredient--innovation capital--that explains why your ideas will win the resources and support they need or why they will struggle, and show you how to acquire it, amplify it, and use it to succeed as an innovative leader.
- Reveals the one factor that separates those people who turn their creative ideas into reality and those who don't.
- Identifies the three components of innovation capital and shows how to develop them.
- Shows how to use, lose, and lead with innovation capital.
- Explains how to boost your innovation capital 10X with the right moves.
- Features interviews with the people who made the authors' Top 25 "Most Valuable Leaders of Innovation in the World" list--a rigorously designed ranking of those individuals with the most innovation capital (this List is the complement to the authors' "The World's Most Innovative Companies" list which was first published in The Innovator's DNA and is published by Forbes every August. (Forbes will be publishing the new list too, alternating between the 2 lists every year).
Audience:
- Any individual who wants to be better at winning support for their ideas or who wants to be seen as innovative.
- Any manager leading development of new ideas or products.
- Fans and previous buyers of Innovator's DNA and Innovator's Method.
- iDNA workshop trainers and participants, and the authors' clients.
- Consultants.
Author Biography
Jeff Dyer is the Horace Beesley Distinguished Professor of Strategy at Brigham Young University's Marriott School and an adjunct professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Dyer is a coauthor of The Innovator's DNA (with Hal Gregersen and Clayton M. Christensen) and The Innovator's Method (with Nathan Furr). He is widely published in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and other business journals.
Nathan Furr is a strategy professor at INSEAD. He is a coauthor of Leading Transformation (with Kyle Nel and Thomas Zoega Ramsoy) and The Innovator's Method (with Jeff Dyer) and has contributed numerous articles to Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Forbes, Inc., and other business media.
Curtis Lefrandt is the CEO of the Innovator's DNA consultancy. Prior to founding Innovator's DNA, Lefrandt worked as a consultant at Innosight, on the iPod team at Apple, in venture capital investing, and as a social entrepreneur.
Dyer, Furr, and Lefrandt are cofounders of Innovator's DNA, a consultancy that enables organizations to build a culture of innovation.
Author social media/website info:
Jeff Dyer: innovatorsdna.com, @Jeffrey_Dyer, innosight.com, @InnovatorsDNA, @innovators_dna
Nathan Furr: innovatorsdna.com, insead.edu, @nathan_furr, @InnovatorsDNA, @innovators_dna
Curtis Lefrandt: innovatorsdna.com, @clefrandt, @InnovatorsDNA, @innovators_dna
