The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators (Harvard Business Press)

Based upon years of academic research, The Innovator’s DNA identifies behaviors of the world’s best innovators—from leaders at Amazon and Apple to those at Google, Skype, and Virgin Group—and outlines five discovery skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers: Associating, Questioning, Observing, Networking, and Experimenting. …Read More…

Awarded Book of the Year, Innovation and Entrepreneurship category, by the Chartered Management Institute.

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Forbes / Innovator’s DNA Most Innovative Companies

Innovation Premium and further Innovator’s DNA research was the basis for Forbes August 8, 2011 Cover Story

Imagine that you were able to lead your company so differently that investors bid up its stock price by 50 percent because they expect innovations—incremental and disruptive—far into the future? Interested? Such a significant market premium might seem impossible to a typical execution-focused executive, but not so for innovative leaders guiding the most innovative companies in the world. Read More

“The Innovator’s DNA,” Harvard Business Review, December 2009

Selected as the runner-up for the 2009 McKinsey Award, given for the best article published in Harvard Business Review during 2009. The article is used by companies around the world to encourage innovation at all levels of an organization.
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Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, “Entrepreneur Behaviors, Opportunity Recognition, and the Origins of Innovative Ventures”

A behind the scenes look at the research project for “The Innovator’s DNA”.

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Jeff Dyer is also the author of “Collaborative Advantage: Winning through Extended Enterprise Supplier Networks,” an award winning book about the power of collaborating across organizations (Winner of the Shingo Prize)

Hal Gregersen is co-author of “It Starts with One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations” a “provocative, powerful” book, as Stephen R. Covey put it, about starting but also finishing transformational changes.