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Reveals the importance of innovation in American global competitiveness, profiling some of today's most compelling young innovators while explaining how they have succeeded through the unconventional methods of parents, teachers, and mentors.
In this groundbreaking book, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations, while teaching them to learn from failures and persevere. Wagner identifies a pattern—a childhood of creative play leads to deep-seated interests, which in adolescence and adulthood blossom into a deeper purpose for career and life goals. Play, passion, and purpose: These are the forces that drive young innovators. Wagner shows how we can apply this knowledge as educators and what parents can do to compensate for poor schooling. He takes readers into the most forward-thinking schools, colleges, and workplaces in the country, where teachers and employers are developing cultures of innovation based on collaboration, interdisciplinary problem-solving, and intrinsic motivation. The result is a timely, provocative, and inspiring manifesto that will change how we look at our schools and workplaces, and provide us with a road map for creating the change makers of tomorrow. Creating Innovators will feature its own innovative elements: more than sixty original videos that expand on key ideas in the book through interviews with young innovators, teachers, writers, CEOs, and entrepreneurs, including Thomas Friedman, Dean Kamen, and Annmarie Neal. Produced by filmmaker Robert A. Compton, the videos are embedded directly into this eBook file and may also be accessed by visiting www.creatinginnovators.com.
Reveals the importance of innovation in American global competitiveness, profiling some of today's most compelling young innovators while explaining how they have succeeded through the unconventional methods of parents, teachers, and mentors.
It took us more than 4 years and 60 co-authors but we finally created the first end2end innovation guide, offering the largest innovation models library on the Internet (100% Open Source) Each of the models presented in the book were developed under the Understanding and Navigating Innovation and Transformation in Enterprises (UNITE) umbrella—a business and innovation strategy that reminds us that when we UNITE, we are greater than the sum of our parts. How to Create Innovation is unique in its scope and comprehensiveness: - Over 400 pages of content make it one of the world’s most-complete leadership books. - The only end2end book on innovation and digital transformation. - Moves business management from concept to action - Frames thinking strategically to power execution - Over 50 ready-to-use tools, models, and canvases - 95 compelling illustrations to connect the dots - FREE access to over 50 complimentary download packages covering the details and helpful background information - Ready for your workshops, with questions and background commentary - Co-authored by over 60 international thought leaders - In use by some of the industry’s best digital transformation programs - Extensively tried and tested Who needs How to Create Innovation? Everyone who wants to: Uncover Opportunities: Be ready for success by finding the right niche. - Successfully Drive Innovation: You’re ready to start innovating and transforming your business. - Go From Whiteboard to Reality: Every good business or product starts with a plan and a solid strategy. Get yours! - Lead Culture Change: Avoid the most common reason for failure. - Design Winning Business Models: Use business model innovation to grow your company. - Succeed With Your Digital Transformation: Understand the what, where, and how of innovation. This book is practically 20 books in one. Fully supported with all the tools, models, canvases, and frameworks you need to identify opportunities with near certainty and deliver to your expectations. It is tried and tested, holistic and end-to-end, covering everything you need in a business book
Learn to Innovate and Make Real Change In our era of disruption and possibility, there are so many great opportunities within your grasp; however, most smart and successful people miss out. Unfortunately, your capabilities are limited by the seven traps of path dependency, which cause you to repeat past decisions. These traps can limit you from seeing the potential of what could be. If you could overcome these traps, what could you accomplish? How much more successful could you be? Create the Future teaches you how to think disruptively, providing specific steps to create real innovation and change. This book combines Jeremy's high energy, provocative thinking with tactics that have been battle-tested through thousands of his team's projects advising leading innovators like Disney, Starbucks, Amex, IBM, Adidas, Google, and NASA. On top of all that, this is a double-sided book, paired with The Innovation Handbook, a revised edition of Jeremy's award-winning book, Exploiting Chaos.
An urgent call for the radical re-imagining of American education so that we better equip students for the realities of the twenty-first century.
Focusing on six steps for effective innovation, this volume presents guidelines for a new world class approach to developing technologies. By using this unique method, you will be able to: create innovations that you would not otherwise create, develop innovations in shorter times, make innovations with high inherent reliability and smoothly transfer innovations into product commercialization.
Adapted from inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity by international bestselling author and Stanford University Professor Tina Seelig, Ph.D., Innovation Engine distills a dozen years of teaching creativity and entrepreneurship into an interactive guide that turns our natural curiosity and imagination into concrete and action-oriented concepts that can be put into practice immediately. Seelig illustrates how motivation, mind-set, physical environment and social situations can work together to enhance creativity. She explains that creativity lies at the intersection of our internal world (knowledge, imagination, and attitude) and external environment (resources, habitats, and culture). By understanding how these factors fit together and influence one another, Innovation Engine provides the tools to jump-start our own innovation engines and allows us to look at every word, object, idea and moment as an opportunity for ingenuity.
The Innovation Book is your hands-on guide to turning new thinking into exciting opportunities. The quick-read format features an overview of each topic, what success looks like, the pitfalls to dodge and an action plan of what you can start doing - right now - to achieve success. Includes: Your Creative Self – how to become a more powerful innovator Leading Innovators – how to inspire and motivate creative people Creating Innovation – how to develop and test new concepts Winning with Innovation – how to sell your new ideas The Innovator’s Toolkit – 20+ tools to help you create, shape and share your ideas The Innovator’s Case Notes – real-life examples of innovation in action; what would you have done? The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.
(1871—1929) The Age of Progress covers the latter decades of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th. Building on the advances of the industrial revolution, this "post-revolutionary" period is similarly defined by remarkable technological and industrial innovation. An era of firsts—steel bridges, sewing machines, bicycles, typewriters, radios, automobiles, airplanes, electric light bulbs, the telephone, photography, and the first motion picture—the Age of Progress gave birth to unprecedented modes of productivity, transportation, and communication. Thomas Alva Edison, Wilbur and Orville Wright, and Charles Darwin are among the historic figures discussed. Special emphasis is given to the sociology of industrial advancement—most notably the development of leisure. Challenging map exercises and provocative review questions encourage meaningful reflection and historical analysis. Tests and answer keys included.
