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Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace is the first book in the Innovation Elegance series. Although software is not what makes innovation difficult, innovators rely on software-centric methodologies. What makes innovation difficult is people: how we interact, govern, collaborate, or fail to collaborate. A people-centric methodology isn't shocking or revolutionary. It's just overdue. This book explains how to adopt the metaphors of an expectation-setting factory and the performing arts (theater, improv, partner dance, and music). The series' second book explains how to adopt the metaphor of an asset portfolio - documentation that represents love letters that benefit your future team. The series' third book explains how to distinguish and navigate good, bad, and false leadership. Innovation Elegance converts chaos and cruelty into discipline and empathy through familiar activities, habits, and language. Innovators will be able to crawl, walk, run adopting tools to shape culture, raise project success rates, and improve the employee experience. Instead of pursuing a competitive advantage, the frontier of innovation and your profitability is pursuing a collaborative advantage.

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"""Like a splash of cold water, Innovation Elegance demands your attention from the very first chapter. It is refreshingly honest about why current approaches to innovation fail and how the Elegance methodology, its concepts, principles, and even choice of words (Five Verbs) help change leaders not only overcome barriers to success but develop high-trust, high-performing teams. The author's insightful perspectives, analogies, and engaging writing style make this a must-read for project, change, and innovation teams."" -Jessica Crow, change management and organizational effectiveness expert, speaker, and consultant ""Let's face it, project success rates are not good. Innovation Elegance gives insights into the causes and solutions. As we all know, effective communication is critical for project success and the idea of an agreement factory is a great way to highlight the power of ensuring agreement before starting a critical project. It also gives us a way to ensure that we stay in agreement throughout all the rough spots we'll find along the way. I think about things differently now which is the hallmark of a book worth reading."" -John Fisher, CIO, entrepreneur, and board director ""Innovation Elegance brilliantly explores the connection between the arts and innovation, revealing a world where discipline, empathy, and collaboration intertwine to create something truly remarkable."" -Nazia Raoof, transformation leader ""Author Robert Snyder has a truly innovative idea: a methodology for innovation teams rather than a methodology for building a whatever-it-is. Bringing the team centre stage promotes people and interactions, which is where the magic of innovation actually happens."" -Allan Kelly, Agile and OKRs consultant, keynote speaker, and author ""Innovation Elegance masterfully cuts through the noise, offering not just a roadmap for innovators grappling with cultural pain points, but an entire GPS system for navigating the complex terrain of modern innovation. The performing arts analogy, as well as tying key practitioner themes together in new ways, is original, meaningful, and thought provoking. It's a fresh and valuable take on where the rubber meets the road for those committed to leading organizations with both discipline and empathy."" -Marian Cook, transformation leader and educator, public and private sector ""Innovation Elegance is a philosophy and methodology that aims to return sanity and rigour into a world turned Agile, marrying discipline and empathy into an exceptionally powerful and effective combination. This book was a delight to read. There are so many pearls of wisdom, uncommon insights and valuable experience packed in these pages, I highlighted something memorable on almost everything single page."" -Bard Papegaaij, leadership philosopher, author, and coach ""Innovation Elegance captures the very essence of what it takes to be an innovation success-the combination of a people-centric, customer-centric, and employee-centric methodology. Innovation does not come from a software program but rather from people. Creating a culture of collaboration maximizes people's potential to innovate."" -Tom Kuczmarski, President of Kuczmarski Innovation and co-founder Chicago Innovation"

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