Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life

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Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life
by Gary Hamel
from Harvard Business School Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Interesting but a little naive
  Well written book with remarkable attention on the logic flow of topics.
  Chapter 8 Design Rules for Innovation is definitely the best part of the book (conceptual vision to implement Systemic Innovation in your company)
  I found a little naive the overall approach aimed to explain as to break the constraints in your "sat down" corporate fighting from the inside: the examples are as real as actually exceptional (Samsung on games, IBM on Internet, Shell and so on). It doesn't semm that those... more info

• Nonlinear Innovation
  With this book, the author brings out the new concept of "nonlinear innovation".
  "In a nonlinear world, only nonlinear ideas will create new wealth", he writes. "Radical, nonlinear innovation is the only way to escape the ruthless hypercompetition that has been hammering down margins in industry after industry. Nonlinear innovation requires a company to escape the shackles of precedent and imagine entirely novel solutions to customer needs."
  "Whatever you shoot is dead for a while before it... more info

• Fast paced, hard hitting
  I love the rather blunt, racy tone of this book. Hamel calls for all employees to be activists, to aggressively promote their own ideas for new products or services. The title of the book ''Leading the Revolution'' refers to the need for such activists to be at the forefront of driving innovation in business. For me this book is a nice complement to Good to Great by Jim Collins who talks about how CEOs need to grill their best people for new strategic ideas. Both authors recognize that the CEO can no longer... more info

• EXCELLENT
  Exellently written and excellent information.The best thing about this book is that I didn't really need to read it at all!.But most people from CEO's to students do need to read it.I'm not sure that most people can learn from this book as it promotes a mind set you almost need to be born with,and that school,work and society generally try to crush out of you,as the author points out,yet the premise of this book is totally correct,innovation is the only competitive advantage left to leverage in the modern... more info

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