Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation

Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation

Building the Future

Machiavelli famously wrote, â‚¬Å“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.â‚¬Â

That's what this book is aboutâ‚¬"innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds explore large-scale systemic innovation that calls for â‚¬Å“big teamingâ‚¬Â: intense collaboration between professions and industries with completely different mindsets. This demands leadership combining an expansive vision with deliberative incremental actionâ‚¬"not an easy balance.

To explore the kind of leadership required to build the future we need, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of Living PlanIT. This award-winning â‚¬Å“smart cityâ‚¬Â start-up was launched with a breathtakingly ambitious goal: creating a showcase high-tech city from scratch to pilot its softwareâ‚¬"quite literally setting out to build the future. This meant a joint effort spanning a truly disparate group of software entrepreneurs, real estate developers, city government officials, architects, construction companies, and technology corporations. By taking a close look at the work, norms, and values in each of these professional domains, we gain new insight into why teaming across fields is so challenging. And we get to know Living PlanIT's leaders, following them and their partners through cycles of hope, exhaustion, disillusionment, pragmatism, and renewal. There are powerful lessons here for anyone, in any industry, seeking to drive audacious innovation.

Country	USA
Brand	Berrett-Koehler
Manufacturer	Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Binding	Hardcover
PartNumber	part_1626564191
Color	Multicolor
IsAdultProduct
Height	9.56
Length	6.4
Weight	1.11994829096
Width	0.84
ReleaseDate	2016-04-18
NumberOfItems	1

Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation

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