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    Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs
    Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs
    Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs
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    Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs

    By Soren Kaplan and Marshall Goldsmith

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    “Leapfrogging is as much about the secrets of breakthrough leadership as it is about business innovation . . . loaded with fresh ideas and examples.” —Hans Middag, Director, Learning and Development, Randstad

    In his trailblazing debut, Soren Kaplan gives business leaders the tools to do exactly what they’re taught to avoid: embrace surprise—the new key to business breakthroughs. Instead of fighting against uncertainty, Kaplan reveals how to use it to break down limiting mindsets and barriers to change the game. By highlighting specific ways to transform both good and bad surprises into unique opportunities, Kaplan encourages leaders to compete by embracing counterintuitive ideas, managing paradoxes, and even welcoming failure. This is the key to “leapfrogging” —creating or doing something radically new or different that produces a significant leap forward.

    Leapfrogging connects new research, unconventional strategies, and practical tools for navigating the “messy” and elusive process of achieving business breakthroughs. Filled with real-world examples from innovators such as Gatorade, Intuit, Philips, Kimberly-Clark, Colgate-Palmolive, OpenTable, and Etsy, Kaplan shows that any organization or business function can leapfrog. Using his LEAPS process (Listen, Explore, Act, Persist, and Seize), leaders learn to seek out, recognize, and respond to surprising experiences and events as a way to create solutions that leap beyond the current expectations of customers, partners, employees, the market, and the competition. Kaplan’s Leapfrogging is the new handbook for the modern leader.

    “Superbly crafted, powerful in its simplicity, offering smart, actionable learning . . . Finally, a simple, holistic model that allows for breakthrough thinking and living.” —Mary Beth Robles, Vice President, Colgate-Palmolive

    “His campaigning for fearless innovation and flexibility is compelling.” —Publishers Weekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateAug 6, 2012
    ISBN9781609944964
    Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs

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