Riding the Waves of Innovation

The authors of the international bestseller Riding the Waves of Culture broad en their focus to help you employ the diversity in your organization to foster innovation.

Companies that successfully harness employees'creativity and convert it to businessinnovation are leading the charge today.While this isn't a brand-new concept, no onehas explained how connections between peopleinitially remote from each other generateinnovation-until now. Riding the Waves of Innovation fills the void.

The key is for leaders and managers like youto carefully address and make the most ofthe three entities that are most vital to yourbusiness's approach to driving innovation throughout your global culture:

The individuals who compose your team.
Are you encouraging them to championinnovation and bring it to fruition? You'll learn how such methodologies as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Kolb's Learning Style Inventory can be developed to avoid stereo typing your people and build effective teams.Your teams.
Are you encouraging them to innovate?
Fons Trompenaars and CharlesHampden-Turner teach you to define therole best suited for each team member; reconcileany differences between, or amongst,them; and ensure that their work together isoptimized.Your organization.
Does it maintain a globalculture of innovation? The authors' in-depthresearch, playfully illustrated via inventive graphs and business-world anecdotes, will teach you to ensure that adaptability, shared goals and values, reliability, and commitmentare all universally acknowledged andembraced aspects of your business's corporate culture.