Radical Thinking

PLUS 3 Awesome Book Give-aways:

• The Leader's Guide to Radical Management by Steve Denning
• Evolutionary Work by Patricia DiVecchio
• Spiraling Up by Lee Frederikson

RSVP requested to Michelle@CreativeEmergence.com

How do you lead in a way that generates simultaneously high creativity AND continuous innovation AND disciplined implementation AND deep job satisfaction AND client delight? That's the challenge facing leaders, entrepreneurs and managers today. Traditional management no longer works. Only 1 in 5 workers is fully engaged in their work. Executive turnover is accelerating. Customers are frustrated. Innovation is stunted. Yet most suggestions for improving management make progress in one area at the expense of another. Improvements for workers often increase costs and undermined productivity. Upgrading service to customers is often at odds with improving productivity. Improvements in efficiency often discourage workers and frustrate customers. And they inhibit, rather than liberate, creativity in the workplace.

In this lively workshop, storyteller extraordinaire Steve Denning, will take you through a series of interactive exercises that will help you rethink management and leadership from first principles. You will understand how the productivity and creativity of the organization, the life of workers, and the experience of customers can be simultaneously upgraded. You will experience the 7 Principles of Radical Management that form the foundation for Steve's just-published book, The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century as well as some of the more than 70 practices which support those principles. The book was written for leaders and managers in organizations, but the same principles and practices apply to innovators, entrepreneurs and visionaries in all spheres of life.

In this experiential session, you will learn:

• how to apply the principles of radical management to your real-life challenges
• how to come up with creative solutions to intractable problems
• how to put those solutions into action
• a new way of thinking, speaking and acting in the world

Are you ready to step up and create workplaces that thrill with life and energy and laughter, while also being highly productive and efficient? If so, join us in this extraordinary session with visionary thinker and leader, Steve Denning. Order your copy of Steve's book now, and bring it in with you for Steve to sign - only a limited number of books will be on sale at the session.

Steve Denning, organizational storyteller extraordinaire, is the author of 8 books, including The Leader's Guide to Radical Management, The Secret Language of Leadership, and The Leader's Guide to Storytelling. Steve was the program director of knowledge management at the World Bank. He now consults with organizations around the world on leadership, innovation, management and business narrative. Steve's article, "Telling Tales" was published by Harvard Business Review; The Secret Language of Leadership was selected by the Financial Times in its list of "Best Business Books of 2007" and by 800-CEO-READ as the best book on leadership that year. He's been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University, UK, and in 2000, Steve was selected as one of the world's ten Most Admired Knowledge Leaders (Teleos).

You can reach Steve through his website at http://www.stevedenning.com and learn how to spread radical management in your world at http://www.recognizealeader.com.

(1) The Leader's Guide to Radical Management by Steve Denning. Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century. Order NOW and get FREE Leadership, Management & Narrative Tools - 36 awesome gifts!

(2) Evolutionary Work by Patricia DiVecchio. Unleashing Your Potential in Extraordinary Times.

(3) Spiraling Up by Lee Frederikson. Grow 9 times faster. Be 50% more profitable. Spend less on marketing & sales.

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