Innovation Eats Uncertainty (How to Become a More Innovative Leader)

Turn innovation into your team’s competitive edge

Innovation Eats Uncertainty shares the mindset and tools you need to lead through uncertainty and unlock innovation in your team. The world you’re leading in is more volatile and complex than ever before, and competition and disruption move faster than any plan can account for. You’re expected to drive fresh thinking in your team, but you also have to meet your usual delivery targets. In this book, you’ll discover how to better lead innovation on the projects you’re already running, plus build for future growth.

Innovation is a core leadership skill, and author Nathan Baird has spent 25+ years helping managers, leaders and executives build it. In Innovation Eats Uncertainty, he shows you step-by-step how to put in place the processes, systems and ways of working that enable innovation to take hold. You’ll discover how to turn innovation from a side project into the way your team works every day.

• Build an innovative team using a six-element framework covering leadership, purpose, strategy, structure, process and governance.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and pinpoint where the highest value lies.
• Know when to lead with business-as-usual logic and when to switch to innovation logic.
• Create the conditions for psychological safety and creative thinking.
• Embed innovation so that change succeeds beyond a single project, team or leader.

Innovation Eats Uncertainty is a book for every leader who wants their team to adapt, perform and create value in a changing world — whether or not innovation is in their job title