Overview

A leader's ability to discover and implement innovations is crucial to adapting to changing technologies and customer preferences, enhancing employee creativity, developing new products, supporting market competitiveness, and sustaining economic growth. Gliddon and Rothwell provide an exciting and comprehensive resource for readers that are currently seeking to build success in organizations with new ideas. Innovation leadership involves synthesizing different leadership styles in organizations to influence employees to produce creative ideas, products, services, and solutions. It is a practice and an approach to organization development and organizational change. Innovation leadership commonly includes four basic stages, which are: (a) support for idea generation, (b) identifying innovations, (c) evaluating innovations, and (d) implementation. There are two types of innovations, including: (a) exploratory innovation, which involves generating brand new ideas, and (b) value-added innovation, which involves modifying and renewing ideas that already exist. The two fundamental leadership theories that are generally necessary for innovation leadership are path-goal theory and Leader Member Exchange theory. The key role in the practice of innovation leadership is that of the innovation leader. However, there are currently multiple perspectives on the definition of an innovation leader. An individual in an organization, a group within an organization, the organization itself, and even a community, state, or nation can be considered an innovation leader. The book explores each of these perspectives on the definition of an innovation leader.

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Author:   David Gliddon ,  William Rothwell
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138036871

ISBN 10:   1138036870
Pages:   150
Publication Date:   11 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Dedication and Acknowledgements; Foreword; Part 1: Innovation Leadership Theory; Chapter 1: Defining and Practicing Innovation Leadership using the CREATE Model – David G. Gliddon; Chapter 2: The Competencies of Innovation Leaders - Dena Lang, Meg Handley, & Kathryn Jablokow; Chapter 3: Innovation Leaders and Followership - Patricia Macko & Wesley E. Donohue; Chapter 4: Synergies in Innovation Network Teams - Frank Theodore Koe; Chapter 5: Building a Culture of Continuous Innovation - Jong Gyu Park & Wesley E. Donahue; Chapter 6: You Have the Idea, Now How Do You Fund It? - Juliette Kleinmann; Part 2: Innovation Leadership Success Stories; Chapter 7: Today I Fly! The Extraordinarily Innovative Diavolo Dance Company - Jonathan Gangi; Chapter 8: An Innovation Success in the Private Sector - Walter Robb & Mike Erdman; Chapter 9: Who’s Leading and Who’s Learning? - R. Lee Viar IV; Chapter 10: Sustainable Community Management - Norma Nusz Chandler; Chapter 11: Working Well with Cultures in the Middle East - Ward E. Marshall; Chapter 12: Innovation on a Small Farm - Debra (Keppy) Arnoldsen & Mike Erdman; Chapter 13: Successful Innovation in Public Sector - Catherine Haynes;Chapter 14: Innovation Leaders in Healthcare - Maureen Connelly Jones; Afterword; Index

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David G. Gliddon is Lead Faculty in the College of Business and Management at Colorado Technical University, USA. He earned his doctorate and undergraduate degrees from Pennsylvania State University, USA, and his Master's degree from the University of Scranton, USA. As part of his post-doctoral work, he earned certificates from MIT, Yale, and the University of Cambridge, UK. As a member of the White House Community Leaders program, Dr. Gliddon attended a White House briefing and met President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House reception. William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CPLP Fellow is President of Rothwell & Associates, Inc. and Rothwell & Associates, LLC. He is also a Professor-in-Charge of the Workforce Education and Development program, Department of Learning and Performance Systems, at Pennsylvania State University, University Park campus. He has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited 300 books, book chapters, and articles – including over 90 books. He has also worked as a consultant for over 40 multinational corporations, including Motorola China, General Motors, Ford, and many others.

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