Teaming to Innovate E-Book

Amy C. Edmondson

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: J-B Short Format Series
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 120

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key insights on teaming, as they pertain to innovation. How do you build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look like? How does it evolve and grow? How are teams most effectively created and then nurtured in this context? What is a leader's role in this culture? This little book is a roadmap for teaming to innovate. We describe five necessary steps along that road: Aim High, Team Up, Fail Well, Learn Fast, and Repeat. This path is not smooth. To illustrate each critical step, we look at real-life scenarios that show how teaming to innovate provides the spark that can fertilize creativity, clarify goals, and redefine the meaning of leadership.

Leseprobe

Contents

Executive Summary

Introduction

Aim High

A Worthy Goal

Engaging Hearts and Minds

It’s a Stretch

Worthy Aspirations That Motivate Innovation

Team Up

Strange Bedfellows

Teaming Across Boundaries

What It Takes to Team

When Conflict Heats Up

Embracing the Risks of Teaming

Fail Well

Unpacking Failure

Failing Well—At the Right Scale

Leading Failure

Courage and Fear

Learn Fast

Learning as You Go

How to Learn Fast

Overcoming Barriers to Learning

Leading Learning to Innovate

Conclusion

About the Author

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Also by Amy C. Edmondson

Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

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Executive Summary

This short book is about leadership and teaming in the context of innovation. What is teaming? It’s what happens when people collaborate—across boundaries of expertise, hierarchy, or geographic distance, to name a few. Teaming is a process of bringing together skills and ideas from disparate areas to produce something new—something that no one individual, or even a group in one area of expertise, could do alone. This is why teaming is so crucial to innovation. When teaming works, the results are more than the sum of the parts, and those who participated are inspired by what they have created and by what they have learned. In some ways, teaming to innovate is the most engaging and rewarding kind of teaming there is.

The goal of this book is to compile key insights for managers who want to lead teaming focused on innovation. I introduce new ideas and case studies from my recent research, and also draw heavily from the longer book, Teaming, to suggest a particular approach to leading innovation. Teaming to Innovate offers succinct advice and a set of memorable strategies that managers and leaders can easily keep in mind to drive innovation.

I provide a road map for teaming to innovate, with five essential recommendations:

1. Aim High

2. Team Up

3. Fail Well

4. Learn Fast

5. Repeat (Start all over again! Innovation takes a few iterations.)

Each of the first four recommendations is illustrated with real-life examples that show how teaming to innovate provides the spark that can clarify goals, nurture creativity, and enable synergy.

Introduction

Wherever you work, it is likely that intense competition, rampant unpredictability, and demanding customers are fueling a demand for innovation. But simply calling for innovation isn’t enough to produce it.

What It Takes to Innovate