Companies that successfully harness employees’ creativity and convert it to business innovation are leading the charge today. While this isn’t a brand-new concept, no one has explained how connections between people initially remote from each other generate innovation—until now. Riding the Waves of Innovation fills the void.
The key is for leaders and managers like you to carefully address and make the most of the three entities that are most vital to your business’s approach to driving innovation throughout your global culture:
Fons Trompenaars is a renowned experton international management and his book,Riding the Waves of Culture: UnderstandingCultural Diversity in Business, has sold morethan a quarter of a million copies in Englishand has been translated into nineteen languages.His most recent book is Servant-Leadership Across Cultures. Trompenaars hasserved as head of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner, a consulting and training organizationfor international management since 1989.
Charles Hampden-Turner is with TrompenaarsHampden-Turner in Amsterdam. Recognizedas a key business thinker, he hasworked as a consultant for Shell, BP, DigitalEquipment, the BBC, Nissan, and many othercompanies. Until recently, he taught at CambridgeUniversity.