Sales Handle The newest book from internationally bestselling author team ofRiding the Ways of Cultureand two of the leading authorities on cross-cultural management'”Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner. Scheduled to be published first in the UK in Sept 2009, this new book applies the authors' latest research in the field of cross-cultural management to the critical topic of innovation showing companies how to develop a global culture of innovation that will allow them to thrive in any economic conditions.About the Book Bestselling authors ofRiding the Waves of Culture, Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner, have teamed up again this time turning their attention to the critical topic of innovation: To thrive and grow, global companies must be able to leverage innovative thinking in their people across the organization Their book offers a new set of approaches to the leaders to increase their innovation initiatives across their global culture, therefore making the company more sustainable in the increasingly turbulent future.The book addresses three crucial levels of the global innovative culture: the individual, the team and the organization. An organization cannot be innovative if there are no creative individuals working to fulfill their personal dreams, so the first part of the book addresses developing people with complementary competences around them to make the team inventive drawing on well-established psychological frameworks that are closely linked to creativity, such as the Myers Briggs Type Indicator typology (MBTI), Kolb's Learning Style Inventory and even Kirton's Adaptation-Innovation Inventory (KAI).The book then focuses on how to encourage and facilitate inventions from teams that consists of individuals with complementary talents. They start the discussion based on the description of the eight roles of the innovative team as described by Meredith Belbin, then focus on how to find the particular roles best suited for each individual and facilitate the tensions between the roles.The final third of the book is devoted to the actions leaders need to take to foster innovation across the whole global organization.

This discussion revolves around original research by the authors THT (Trompenaars Hampden-Turner) cross-cultural database (over 80,000 records from over 100 countries). This research reveals that a global culture of innovation consists of a focus on adaptation/flexibility, tasks/goals, structure/reliability and loyalty/commitment. They show the results of hundreds of organizations ' ones that are innovative compared to those who struggle ' and how their respective cultures differ. Included are ideas and actions for leaders and managers to help their organizations innovate, making Innovating in a Global Crisis is a blueprint for creating a culture of high-octane creativity and innovation.Market/Audience High-level managers overseeing global teams and HR managersFeatures: Bestselling author team Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner apply their latest research in the field of cross-cultural management to the critical topic of innovation This will build on the great success McGraw-Hill has had with the authors' Riding the Waves of Culture: we shipped over 55,000 copies of this international bestseller. This was originally published by a UK publisher, selling 11,000 copies'”this revision of the book is the first time the book has been available in the US. Success of titles by CK Prahalad and Clayton Christensen show that leaders are hungry for books on how innovation creates solutions. This book shows how to do it from the perspective of cross-cultural management.

The authors are principles of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner, a consulting firm that specialized is assisting companies deal with cross-cultural challenges and delimmas. Authors' clients include: Deloitte, Tata, IBM, McDonalds, Nike, Nissan, Nokia,.