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“A compelling new biography… [The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived] spins the Watsons into near-Shakespearean figures, as if ‘Succession’ were set in the era of ‘Mad Men’.”​ ―The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The enduring story of Thomas Watson Jr.—a figure...

The era of process management is fading away, and the age of innovation is upon us. This is ushering in the era of knowledge creation where the goal of organizations is to discover how to find and take advantage of new value in the market. However, people are products of their environment. The culture that you have built for your organization is either stimulating creative thought or stunting it. Facilitating Innovation explains how the leader impacts the environment and describes the best practices of building a creative culture.

Olympic athletes structure their lives for a single moment of intense competition. They train relentlessly, they eat intentionally, and their daily actions are focused on producing the optimal effort for a single moment in time. Why don’t organizations take this same approach with their employees? The goal of any leader is to get the optimal effort out of their team, therefore the leader’s focus must be on creating the ideal conditions for their team.