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Sustaining Innovation by Paul Charles Light
Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations That Innovate Naturally
Written for nonprofit and public organizations, this work shows how to innovate successfully. The book is divided into four parts: organizational environment, internal bureaucracy, leadership, and management systems. The author shows how each of these work in practice, and with one another.Paul Light has captured the spirit of innovation. It is not about spectacular acts by individuals who labor against the odds, but about the hard work of building organizations in which innovation is expected and possible. It is about tilling the soil so that ideas can flourish. Anyone who wants to take their organization forward toward natural innovation should read this book. -Walter F. Mondale Any organization can innovate once. The challenge is to innovate twice, thrice, and more - to make innovation a part of daily good practice. This book shows how nonprofit and government organizations can transform the single, occasional act of innovating into an everyday occurrence by forging a culture of natural innovation.Filled with real success stories and practical lessons learned, Sustaining Innovation offers examples of how organizations can take the first step toward innovativeness, advice on how to survive the inevitable mistakes along the way, and tools for keeping the edge once the journey is complete.Light also provides a set of simple suggestions for fitting the lessons to the different management pressures facing the government and nonprofit sector. Unlike the private sector, where innovation needs only to be profitable to be worth doing, government and nonprofit innovation must be about doing something worthewhile. It must challenge the prevailingwisdom and advance the public good. Sustaining Innovation gives nonprofit and government managers a coherent, easily understood model for making this kind of innovation a natural reality. |
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| Author(s) : Paul Charles Light | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0787940984 | ISBN-13 : 9780787940980 |
| RRP : £22.99 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Jossey-Bass Nonprofit and Public Management Series
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 30/01/1998
Publisher : John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Page Length : 336mm
Page Size : 240mm