Innovation

Bill Taylor

Practically Radical

Members only. Recorded February 07, 2011

 

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Who is this workout for?

Project Managers, HR Professionals, Division Leaders, Department Managers, Team Leaders, Team Members, Executives, L&D Professionals.

Element: Innovation

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What you learn.

• Where to look for new ideas when you're stuck.

• Discover what your team or company is uniquely great at delivering.

• How to become irreplaceable and increase customer love.

• How to get the greatest contributions from people.

• How to learn fast and know when to change.

Why this event?

We are living through the age of disruption. You can't do big things if you're content with doing things a little better than everyone else or a little differently than how you did them before. In an era of hypercompetition and non-stop dislocation, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special.

Today, the most successful organizations and teams don't just out-compete their rivals and "do their jobs." They redefine the terms of competition by embracing one-of-a-kind ideas in a world filled with me-too thinking.

Why it makes a difference.

Practically Radical offers a fresh set of messages for a different set of challenges-and a new era of business. This event is meant as a guide for leaders in all walks of life who aspire to fix what's wrong with their organizations, to launch new initiatives with the best chance to succeed, and to rethink the logic of leadership itself as they rally their colleagues around an agenda for renewal.

In other words, it is a manifesto for change and a manual for achieving it-at a moment when change is the name of the game.

William C. Taylor

Bill Taylor is a writer, a speaker, and entrepreneur who has shaped the global conversation about the best ways to compete, innovate, and succeed. As a cofounder and founding editor of Fast Company, Bill launched a magazine that won countless awards, and earned a passionate following among executives and entrepreneurs around the world. His book, Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, and was named a “Business Book of the Year” by The Economist and the Financial Times. His latest book, Practically Radical, is published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Bill wrote a regular business column (“Under New Management”) for the New York Times as well as a monthly column for London’s Guardian newspaper. He now writes a popular management blog for Harvard Business Review. He is an adjunct lecturer at Babson College and the co-author of three other books on strategy, leadership, and innovation. A graduate of Princeton University and the MIT Sloan School of Management, Bill lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. Bill is delivering a G5 Leadership session on innovation titled, Practically Radical.