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Through a series of short stories and brief case studies about great innovators, this book will help managers and entrepreneurs rethink their innovation processes, using the tools outlined in the book. The eight chapters include narratives on: From Ideas to Action; Breaking the Rules; Learning Creativity from our Kids; Innovation as a Team Sport; and Innovating for Those with Less. The basic idea is that the best way to become a world-class innovator is to learn from other world-class innovators and to study what they did and how they did it.
Shlomo Maital is senior research associate at the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science & Technology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and professor (emeritus). He was the academic director of TIM-Technion Institute of Management, Israel's leading executive leadership development institute and a pioneer in action-learning methods, from 1998–2009. He was summer Visiting Professor for 20 years in MIT Sloan School of Management's Management of Technology MSc program, teaching over 1,000 R&D engineers from 40 countries. He is the author, co-author or editor of 14 books, including Cracking the Creativity Code (SAGE India, 2014); The Imagination Ladder (Mandarin edition: Hangzhu Books, 2014); Mapping National Innovation Ecosystems (Elgar, UK, 2014); Technion Nation (2012), Global Risk/Global Opportunity (SAGE 2009), Innovation Management (Sage, 2007; 2nd edition, 2012); and Executive Economics (The Free Press 1994), translated into seven languages. He was co-founder of SABE-Society for Advancement of Behavioral Economics and was an early proponent of behavioral economics. His on-line course Cracking the Creativity Code — Part One is offered by Coursera and had over 11,000 students enrolled in its initial run. Two more such "MOOC"s are in preparation.
Shlomo Maital is married, with four children and 13 grandchildren. He completed the New York marathon in 1985 in 3 hours and 51 minutes, and in April 2006, completed the Boston marathon in about 5 hours. In 2014 he and his wife Dr Sharone Maital did a four-month 'trek' that took them to South America, North America, Europe, Vietnam, China and New Zealand, visiting innovative schools in several of these countries.
