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Imagine it forward : courage, creativity, and the power of change  Cover Image Book Book

Imagine it forward : courage, creativity, and the power of change / Beth Comstock with Tahl Raz.

Comstock, Beth, (author.). Raz, Tahl, (author.).

Summary:

"An inspiring and practical guide to mastering change in the face of relentless uncertainty. The world will never be slower than it is right now, says Beth Comstock, the former Vice Chair and head of marketing and innovation at GE. But confronting the relentless pace of change is hard. Employees get downsized; companies find themselves disrupted as challengers steal away customers. To thrive in today's world, every one of us has to become a change-maker. In Imagine It Forward, Comstock shares lessons from a thirty year career as the change-maker in chief, on spotting trends and driving innovation. In a candid and deeply personal narrative, Beth describes her successes and failures from the front lines of business, across industries ranging from media to health, energy to manufacturing, finance to the Industrial Internet. As the woman who spearheaded Ecomagination, and GE's famed FastWorks methodology, she helped to turn a process-heavy, risk-averse culture, to one that increasingly embraced transparency, adaptability, iteration, and discovery. She shows how each one of us can--in fact, must--become a "change maker."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780451498298 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0451498291 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xxv, 388 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Currency, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Closing the imagination gap -- Section I: Self-permission. Reinvention ; The outsider inside ; Challenge: Grab agency -- Section II: Discovery. Edison's marines ; A breakthrough of imagination: a new way of marketing ; Ecomagination ; Challenge: Make room for discovery -- Section III: Agitated inquiry. Naysayers and the digital onslaught ; Failing forward: it takes a village ; Getting it right ; Challenge: Getting good at conflict -- Section IV: Storycraft. Rewriting your story ; Minds, machines, and market share ; Challenge: Storytelling's unexpected power -- Section V: Creating a new OS. Opening up ; Illuminating the darkness: A faint and flickering light ; Challenge: Be a emergent leader -- Epilogue.
Subject: Organizational change.
Decision making.
Management.
Success in business.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lehigh Valley Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Easton Area Public Library System.

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