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BOOM! Deciphering Innovation

How Disruption Drives Companies to Transform or Die

By: Lisa Hendrickson,Jim Colwick

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BOOM! Deciphering Innovation

How Disruption Drives Companies to Transform or Die

By: Lisa Hendrickson,Jim Colwick

Winning in An Age of Relentless Change and Disruption Today, we face a bewildering array of changes coming from many directions—globalization, government policy, market disorganization, technology, business trends, demographics, social distortion, and environmental uncertainty. These mega forces are disrupting how organizations do business and often determine whether they succeed or fail. Boom! Deciphering Innovation: How Disruption Drives Companies to Transform or Die is a 30,000-foot guide for leaders who need to make sense of the disruptive landscape, the nature of innovation, and the role of leadership in reinventing the future. The lessons are useful whether you are a leader in a big or small company, nonprofit or government organization. The book is designed to be a quick, fun read. The authors use lively, conversational language, pictures, and short case studies to tell the story of what happened, winners and losers, innovation and transformation. They also provide advice on the first steps in making a company future-ready. About the Authors Lisa Hendrickson is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, innovative strategist, thought leader and purposeful disruptor. An Inc. 500 and TEDx Speaker, she is known for her simple elegant solutions that address complex business problems. She is the founder of Spark City, a “Thinking Partner” consultancy that helps companies trail blaze new products, services and business models. For over 25 years, Jim Colwick has worked with executive teams in Fortune 500, mid-size and entrepreneurial corporations and government to reshape their futures. Jim has also held senior leadership positions in innovative, high-growth, technology consultancies focused on business strategy, technology optimization, customer experience and business transformation. Jim specializes in strategy, innovation, people and change.

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Spark City

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173388422X

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9781733884228

Three Generations of Railwaymen

By: Jim Body,Geoff Body,Ian Body

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Three Generations of Railwaymen

By: Jim Body,Geoff Body,Ian Body

When Jim Body joined Great Northern Railway in 1916, he could never have imagined that it would become 'the family business', with both his son Geoff and his grandson Ian taking to the rails. Through the eyes of three generations of Bodys, the rail industry changed beyond recognition, going through two world wars, grouping, nationalisation, the end of steam and privatisation before ending up as the industry we know today. With tales that include being suspected of spying, dealing with dramatic flooding, and the first Glastonbury Festival, Three Generations of Railwaymen is a rare behind-the-scenes look at one family's life and experiences in the railway industry.

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197

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The History Press

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0750990341

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9780750990349

Organizational Change: Themes and Issues

By: Jim Grieves

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Organizational Change: Themes and Issues

By: Jim Grieves

Organizational Change: Themes and Issues presents a critical approach to organizational change, viewing change as a series of critical reflections rather than a series of recipes or models.

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443

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0199214883

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9780199214884

Rivers Under Siege

The Troubled Saga of West Tennessee's Wetlands

By: Jim W. Johnson

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Rivers Under Siege

The Troubled Saga of West Tennessee's Wetlands

By: Jim W. Johnson

Rivers under Siege is a wrenching firsthand account of how human interventions, often well intentioned, have wreaked havoc on West Tennessee's fragile wetlands. For more than a century, farmers and developers tried to tame the rivers as they became clogged with sand and debris, thereby increasing flooding. Building levees and changing the course of the rivers from meandering streams to straight-line channels, developers only made matters worse. Yet the response to failure was always to try to subdue nature, to dig even bigger channels and construct even more levees-an effort that reached its sorry culmination in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' massive West Tennessee Tributaries Project during the 1960s. As a result, the rivers' natural hydrology descended into chaos, devastating the plant and animal ecology of the region's wetlands. Crops and trees died from summer flooding, as much of the land turned into useless, stagnant swamps. The author was one of a small group of state waterfowl managers who saw it all happen, most sadly within the Obion-Forked Deer river system and at Reelfoot Lake. After much trial and error, Johnson and his colleagues in the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency began by the 1980s to abandon their old methods, resorting to management procedures more in line with the natural contours of the floodplains and the natural behavior of rivers. Preaching their new stewardship philosophy to anyone who might listen-their supervisors, duck hunters, conservationists, politicians, federal agencies-they were often ignored. The campaign dragged on for twenty years before an innovative and rational plan came from the Governor's Office and gained wide support. But then, too, that plan fell prey to politics, legal wrangling, self-interest, hardheadedness, and tradition. Yet, despite such heartbreaking setbacks, the author points to hopeful signs that West Tennessee's historic wetlands might yet be recovered for the benefit of all who use them and recognize their vital importance. Jim W. Johnson, now retired, was for many years a lands management biologist with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. He was responsible for the overall supervision and coordination of thirteen wildlife management areas and refuges, primarily for waterfowl, in northwest Tennessee.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572334908

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BOOM! Deciphering Innovation

How Disruption Drives Companies to Transform or Die

By: Lisa Hendrickson,Jim Colwick

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How Disruption Drives Companies to Transform or Die

By: Lisa Hendrickson,Jim Colwick

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BOOM! Deciphering Innovation

BOOM! Deciphering Innovation

Three Generations of Railwaymen

Three Generations of Railwaymen

Organizational Change: Themes and Issues

Organizational Change: Themes and Issues

Rivers Under Siege

Rivers Under Siege

BOOM! Deciphering Innovation

BOOM! Deciphering Innovation

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