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  • Innovation Prowess

  • Leadership Strategies for Accelerating Growth (Wharton Executive Essentials)
  • By: George S. Day
  • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
  • Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins

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Innovation Prowess

By: George S. Day
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
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Publisher's Summary

A framework for achieving superior rates of organic growth.

Achieving superior growth through innovation is a top strategic priority for all companies. Yet most management teams struggle to reach their firm’s ambitious growth targets and suffer slow growth. What distinguishes these growth laggards from growth leaders like IBM, Nike, LEGO, American Express, Amazon, and Samsung that realize their full potential for growth?

Wharton professor George S. Day shows that growth leaders use their innovation prowess to accelerate their growth at a faster rate. In this essential guide, Day reveals how to build this prowess by combining discipline in growth-seeking activities with an organizational ability to innovate. Day shows managers how to set a growth strategy that is realistic while still stretching the organization; search for the best growth opportunities along the full spectrum of 14 growth pathways; aim their growth-seeking activities toward the creation of new customer value; learn to profit from the uncertainty of innovation by successfully assessing and containing risk; build the organizational muscle to implement an ambitious growth strategy; and move faster from ideas to impact.

With the strategies, processes, and methods discussed in Innovation Prowess, leaders can build a tested and comprehensive strategy for driving organic growth year after year.

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©2013 George S. Day (P)2014 Gildan Media LLC

Critic Reviews

“George Day has captured a concept that is relevant for all companies trying to increase their organic growth rate. His key insight is that growth leaders have developed both discipline and ability. It is akin to having brain and brawn; you have to have both to stay ahead.” (Vijay Govindarajan, Professor at Tuck at Dartmouth College, Coauthor of New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller Reverse Innovation)

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