Positive Turbulence: Developing Climates for Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal Hardcover - 1999 - 1st Edition
by Stanley S. Gryskiewicz
A leading authority from the esteemed Center for Creative Leadership shows how to use the power of turbulence to achieve positive results--creativity, innovation, and corporate adaptability. Rich with examples from a variety of settings, the book includes the success stories of groups that have successfully transformed turbulence into creative breakthroughs.
First line
In the 1950s the typical business organization was a monolith that valued nothing so much as predictability an repeatability.
From the rear cover
Operating in a time of rapid and seemingly relentless change, today's healthiest organizations have the ability to continuously renew themselves and thrive in a challenging environment. They are the ones that know how to harness the turbulence all organizations encounter and use it as a catalyst for creativity and innovation. They are the companies that will succeed in the long term. And your company can be among them.
As an expert on corporate change and advisor to leading organizations around the world, author Stanley Gryskiewicz has spent nearly thirty years observing and evaluating a variety of corporate cultures. Those that are most effective, he's found, are invariably those in which creativity and innovation are allowed to flourish. Over the years, Gryskiewicz has witnessed and often helped devise the many strategies and processes companies have employed to deliberately establish energetic, creative cultures. And now he's distilled the most successful of those approaches into a dynamic process of cultural change he calls Positive Turbulence.
Positive Turbulence begins with the recognition that change is inevitable. It then provides ways to keep change manageable and apply it to an organization's strategic advantage. Asserting that creativity need not be random, Gryskiewicz outlines a proactive process for bringing new information into an organization, making sense of it, and translating it into novel ideas that are both useful and actionable. Along the way, he relates specific strategies that individuals, teams, and organizations can use to increase their receptivity to Positive Turbulence and employ it effectively.
The author illustrates his points with a variety of examples from history, from organizations large and small, even from jazz groups. He also provides real-world examples of how Norfolk Southern, Hallmark, and 3M have each used Positive Turbulence to build continuous renewal into their cultures. In short, Gryskiewicz gives you all of the information you need to institute Positive Turbulence at your company-a process that will help ensure its vitality in a hypercompetitive, rapidly changing world.
From the jacket flap
Operating in a time of rapid and seemingly relentless change, today's healthiest organizations have the ability to continuously renew themselves and thrive in a challenging environment. They are the ones that know how to harness the turbulence all organizations encounter and use it as a catalyst for creativity and innovation. They are the companies that will succeed in the long term. And your company can be among them.As an expert on corporate change and advisor to leading organizations around the world, author Stanley Gryskiewicz has spent nearly thirty years observing and evaluating a variety of corporate cultures. Those that are most effective, he's found, are invariably those in which creativity and innovation are allowed to flourish. Over the years, Gryskiewicz has witnessed and often helped devise the many strategies and processes companies have employed to deliberately establish energetic, creative cultures. And now he's distilled the most successful of those approaches into a dynamic process of cultural change he calls Positive Turbulence.Positive Turbulence begins with the recognition that change is inevitable. It then provides ways to keep change manageable and apply it to an organization's strategic advantage. Asserting that creativity need not be random, Gryskiewicz outlines a proactive process for bringing new information into an organization, making sense of it, and translating it into novel ideas that are both useful and actionable. Along the way, he relates specific strategies that individuals, teams, and organizations can use to increase their receptivity to Positive Turbulence and employ it effectively.The author illustrates his points with a variety of examples from history, from organizations large and small, even from jazz groups. He also provides real-world examples of how Norfolk Southern, Hallmark, and 3M have each used Positive Turbulence to build continuous renewal into their cultures. In short, Gryskiewicz gives you all of the infor
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- Title Positive Turbulence: Developing Climates for Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal
- Author Stanley S. Gryskiewicz
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-07-20
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780787910082 / 0787910082
- Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.27 x 6.32 x 0.81 in (23.55 x 16.05 x 2.06 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Creative ability in business, Organizational change
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99-6075
- Dewey Decimal Code 658.406
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- Ingram PTR, 07/01/1999, Page 12
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