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    Kill The Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution
    Kill The Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution
    Kill The Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution
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    Kill The Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution

    Written by Lisa Bodell

    Narrated by Margie Lenhart

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    In the ever-changing world of business, we've arrived at a point where process has trumped culture, where the race toward efficiency has made us complacent and unable to reach our potential. Stuck in the land of status quo, we've forgotten how to think. And the very structures put in place to help businesses grow are now holding them back. It's time to Kill the Company.

    What this audiobook suggests is simple: to SIMPLIFY by getting rid of things first rather than continually building on what doesn't work; a form of spring cleaning for your organization. Innovation specialist Lisa Bodell urges companies to question assumptions and to challenge rules that have outlived their time. Killing these status quo attitudes makes space for change and more value-added work, like thinking. Bodell tells us that these changes need not be one-size-fits-all initiatives that are forced upon employees. Instead, we need to embrace smaller, positive behavioral changes that create ripple effects throughout the organization. Too many change initiatives simply add another layer of processes to the to-do lists of already overwhelmed and tired employees. Not this one. Innovation is supposed to make things better, not worse, easier, not more complicated. Kill the Company is your guide for simplifying and streamlining, then building and maintaining a place where everyone's innovative spirit and energy fuel the long-term goals of your organization. A company that empowers its people to think critically, question relentlessly, and act boldly, to move from Zombies, Inc. to Think, Inc., will own the future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781469089829

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    • 4/5
      At first glance this does look what it is, this is why I hesitated to get the book, finally this is very interesting while it defies the status quo and the business as usual.
      Many ways on how to be more aware of what's wrong and how to challenge it, and challenge everything that we once considered as a given way on how to conduct business.
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      Lisa Bodell is the founder and CEO of futurethink, an internationally recognized innovation research and training firm. Lisa founded her company on the principle that with the right knowledge and tools, everyone has the power to innovate. As a leading innovator and cognitive learning expert, she has devised training programs for hundreds of innovators at leading companies. In her brand new book Kill the Company End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution Bodell offers lots of business insights to stir bottom-up innovation in companies. It’s the creative destruction on a micro-level. By leveraging creative and innovative powers in employees, the status quo can be ended, the current company killed and an innovation revolution started.Everyone is a change agent, according to the author. It’s so important to move from what she calls Zombies, Inc. to Think, Inc. This involves both risk and trust: to allow all employees the opportunity and environment to be curious and inquisitive. No more handcuffs, but guardrails. Yes, projects may fail, and not 100% of the R&D budget will lead to successful innovation. The author wants you to kill fear, complacency and distractions.Bodell identifies individual skills needed to shape tomorrow’s businesses:- strategic imagination- provocative inquiry- creative problem solving- agility- resilienceOn a business level the following behaviours should be leveraged:- focus on the future- challenge the status quo- identify / invest in smart risks- active collaboration- continuous learningBodell draws from the work of such education luminaries as Sir Ken Robinson and the groundbreaking Blue School (founded by members of the Blue Man Group). The book reminded me of Daniel H. Pink‘s a whole new mind, Lynda Gratton’s Hot Spots, Satish Nambisan and Mohanbir Sawhney‘s The Global Brain and other works on innovation. On Killthecompany.com you can find the toolset described.