Innovative Leaders Guide To Transforming Organizations

This book represents the synthesis of twenty years of consulting. It integrates best practices from consulting firms, colleagues, and clients. I would first like to acknowledge Accenture and PricewaterhouseCoopers for providing practical opportunities for me to learn and build strong skills in consulting, organizational change, large-scale systems change, and strategic thinking, among many others. It was this solid foundation that allowed me to create this methodology. As a theoretical foundation, I worked with or studied the work of many thought leaders in the fields of leadership development, developmental psychology, integral theory, and others. The theoretical giants on whose hard work we built the Innovative Leadership and Organizational Transformation models include: Terri O'Fallon, Ph.D., Susanne Cook-Greuter, Ph.D., Hilke Richmer, Ph.D., Roxanne Howe-Murphy, Ed.D., and Peter Senge, Ph.D., Cindy Wigglesworth Ph.D., and Ken Wilber. These leaders shared not only their theories, but ongoing guidance and encouragement helping to create a solid framework that is comprehensive and theoretically grounded.

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.

Authors Metcalf and Palmer define leadership from a thoughtful, new perspective and provide a six-step process for developing strong leadership qualities. Leadership needs innovation the way innovation demands leadership, and by combining them you can improve your capacity to deliver results, they explain.

Based on the 2012 Award winning Innovative Leadership by Maureen Metcalf and Mark Palmer, this workbook provides key insights to effective leading and tools to develop effective practices.

Lee Roy Beech seeks to avoid pedantry, gimmicks & hero worship while addressing the complex issues involved in trying to lead an organization. He does not offer any quick fixes, but concentrates on practical strategies.

“The new cornerstone innovation resource for nurse leaders today! Change is difficult, but this innovation guide is an excellent resource to ensure sustainability for nursing today and for years to come.” -Margo B. Minissian, PhD, ACNP-BC, NEA-BC, FAHA, Executive Director, Geri and Richard Brawerman Nursing Institute, Simms/Mann Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Nurse Education, Innovation and Research, Assistant Professor, Cardiology Cedars-Sinai Medical Center “Transformation in healthcare cannot occur without nurse leaders having an innovation mindset and setting an intentional culture of innovation at their institutions. Dr. Clipper’s book should be one of the go-to resource guides for nurse leaders to infuse this culture of innovation throughout health systems. I hope every nurse leader uses this book and commits to transforming not only their health system but the profession of nursing.” -Marion Leary, MSN, MPH, RN, Director of Innovation, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing The global healthcare ecosystem is in chaos, caught in the convergence of pandemic-induced disruption, residual inequities, burnout, and turnover. Nurse leaders can either succumb to the churn or spot—and seize—a rare opportunity for true transfor­mation. They must thoughtfully consider all aspects of their traditional roles and tack­le trigger topics such as staffing, schedul­ing, value-based care, outcome tracking, and more. Informed, empowered nurses can re-envision roles, integrate technolo­gies, and develop new models to deliver the highest level of patient care. The Innovation Handbook is a pragmatic guide and toolkit that seeks to enlighten nurse leaders as they evolve through the current crisis. Author Bonnie Clipper explains concepts and equips nurses with a knowledge foundation that enhances their innovation skill set, spurs ideas and creativity, and challenges them to think differently and apply new concepts. On the cusp of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a better future for nursing and healthcare, this book gives nurses the tools to meet the moment! TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: The Current State of Nursing and the Need to Transform Chapter 2: Speaking the Same Language Chapter 3: Culture as the Foundation of Innovation Chapter 4: Leadership in Turbulent Times Chapter 5: Creating a Future-Facing Care Model Chapter 6: Leadership Tools for Transformation Chapter 7: Leveraging Technology on Our Teams Chapter 8: Conclusion

Describing proven, field techniques that educate the reader and allow her/him to develop healthcare systems to service the twenty first century population.

If you want to be a great leader, if you need to improve operational excellence, or if you must transform an organization, this should be the book you buy! This book can help transform a company or organization, achieve focus, build excellence, create direction, develop culture, encourage behaviors, and facilitate action. How hard is an effective organizational transformation to pull off? Such efforts often fail to deliver medium-to-long term value. This book aims to help leaders navigate the pitfalls and create a 'success path' for themselves, their people, their organization, and other stakeholders. Are you looking for a great blueprint for cultural change within your organization in order to achieve sustainable high performance while developing leadership? New organizations should set themselves up for success, mature organizations need a check-up to maintain their health and effectiveness, and many organizations need change. Knowing what you don't know is important for new managers and new leaders. This book is a great resource manual for those individuals and organizations. Discover the keys that are imperative for organizations to thrive and succeed. Reading this book is a must to easily understand the steps to become a great leader or to have a successful organizational transformation. Your time is too important to spend reading and digesting literally dozens of the best books on leadership and organizational transformation. You should instead utilize this compilation of the top leadership, transformation, and success concepts. The contents of this book have been refined over many years, primarily within manufacturing and consulting organizations. It is believed the concepts conveyed have application across multiple industries, businesses, and organizations. At the start of each chapter, this book includes key concepts and summaries for fast, easy referencing, or useful reminders. The book is a compilation from many sources, researchers, and coaches, including the author. The content has been proven to be both necessary and sufficient for successful organizational transformation.