It’s Not Enough to be Competitive. It’s a brave new world out there.
Former fierce competitors are finding the only way to chart a course to success is through collaboration. Competition in the marketplace is undergoing seismic change. Smart phones have sparked a digital revolution opening up the flow of technical know-how, trade and talent on a global scale. Emerging nations are jumping on the digital bandwagon - no longer seen as sources of cheap labour or relegated to commodity-based goods. Their governments are investing in research and adopting innovation-based growth strategies as hundreds of millions of their educated and skilled citizens enter the global labour force. If it’s not enough that this transformation is threatening the traditional balance of trade between developed and developing economies, the financial crisis has sent countries ducking for cover, administering political decisions based on national interest and their own prosperity.
Propelling global growth Take India. What is competitiveness? Book: Lead with a Story. Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives that Captivate, Convince, and Inspire “Top 5 business books” — The Washington Post “Best 25 business books of 2012″ — ExecRank.com “Best storytelling books ever publsihed.” — List.ly View Table of Contents and Chapter Summaries » Over the last decade, storytelling has become one of the most rapidly growing tools used by business managers and executives.
Companies like Disney, 3M, Motorola, and the World Bank have adopted storytelling as a key method of influence and leadership. Instead of corporate memos, email, and PowerPoint presentations, storytelling is now being used to inspire and motivate organizations, to create a vision for the future, to define culture and values, to set goals and build commitment to them, and to lead change.
Lead with a Story contains ready-to-use stories for 21 of the toughest challenges leaders face, and a how-to guide for readers to craft their own. Praise for Lead with a Story What a great book! Midnight Lunch – How Thomas Edison Collaborated. I caught up with Sarah Miller Caldicott to discuss her latest book Midnight Lunch: the 4 phases of team collaboration success from Thomas Edison’s Lab.
Sarah is keen to talk about how collaboration “powers” innovation. As the great grandniece of Thomas Edison and a seasoned executive she has a singular perspective. February 11 marks Edison’s 166 birthday. Time was good to him – he lived to be 84. Indeed, 166 years seems like a very long time ago, which makes it all the more stunning to look around our modern world and trace so many industries today to Thomas Edison: Movies, recorded sound, storage battery and electrical power to name a few. What is a midnight lunch? Midnight lunch was the affectionate term Edison’s Menlo Park employees gave to the popular practice of staying late in the lab to run experiments, and having dinner together.
At about 9 PM, Edison would order in food for everyone from a local tavern. Why did you write this book? Will you share some lessons from Midnight Lunch? Objectives, Skills, Highlights of Training. ENGAGE: Portal for game-based learning. Vivian Linssen.