Getting Innovation Right departs from the conventional wisdom of innovation, which encourages creativity, freewheeling experiments, tolerance for mistakes and failures, play, intuition, collaboration, curiosity, and so on. Play and curiosity are a wonderful part of everyday life and have their place in creating a culture of high performance, but they are not enough to drive results in the harsh realities of commerce. This book takes a hard-nosed stance and says, innovation is nothing if it...

Getting Change Right presents a new view of leadership communication that says change doesn't flow top-down, bottom-up, or sideways, but inside-out. When the right people are having the right conversations and interactions, then they act in concert even though the situations they confront independently are impossible to predict or coordinate... this is how change spreads through a complex system. In this book, Kahan challenges readers with a new model of communication, one that moves from ...