Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key insights on teaming, as they pertain to innovation. How do you build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look like? How does it evolve and grow? How are teams most effectively created and then nurtured in this context? What is a leader’s role in this culture? This little book is a roadmap for teaming to innovate. We describe five necessary steps along that road: Aim High, Team Up, Fail Well, Learn Fast, and Repeat. This path is not smooth. To illustrate each critical step, we look at real-life scenarios that show how teaming to innovate provides the spark that can fertilize creativity, clarify goals, and redefine the meaning of leadership.

Author Biography

Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership andManagement at the Harvard Business School, where sheteaches courses in leadership, organizational learning andoperations management in the MBA and Executive Education programs.Her writings on organizational learning and leadership have beenpublished in more than 60 articles in academic and managementjournals, and she has consulted widely on these topics fororganizations around the world. Before her academic career,she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, whereshe worked with founder and CEO Larry Wilson to design andimplement change programs in large companies including GeneralMotors, DuPont, Sears and others. Her recent consulting activitiesinclude projects on organizational learning and team effectivenessin such organizations as Federal Express, The Monitor Company,Nortel, American Heart Association, and Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare.

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