Thinking Clockwise: A Field Guide for the Innovative Leader

by Dennis Stauffer

Winner of 2006 Fresh Voices Award. Thinking Clockwise is about innovation - what fuels it, what drains it and how to inspire it. Author Dennis Stauffer provides a unique and powerful strategy for changing the way employees think and managers lead. He offers an imaginative yet brutally pragmatic approach to doing business. This brilliantly simple handbook explores innovation as a business necessity, not an option, and presents solutions in an easy-to-implement field guide format.

112 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2004

Reviews

[Nick · Rating 1 out of 5]

Thinking Clockwise is one of the worst leadership books I've read. Taking some good ideas and recommendations and force fitting them into a dialectical good bad paradigm full of internal inconsistencies creates an unbalanced worldview eliminating good traits identified on the 'bad side' side while over emphasizing all traits on the 'good side'. Be careful when considering the implementation of what this book teaches. Rather review and adopt with reason those things that are good sense and drop the rest. There are much better books available on innovation and leadership.

[Dana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Why do I bother reading any leadership books?! It either doesn't sink in or I just can't properly apply the methods to my real life. Sigh.