Sometimes radical yet always applicable, Brick by Brick abounds with real-world lessons for unleashing breakthrough innovation in your organization, using LEGO--which experienced one of the most remarkable business transformations in recent history--as a business model.As LEGO failed to keep pace with the revolutionary changes in kids' lives and began sliding into irrelevance, the company's leaders implemented some of the business world's most widely espou...

How to create a company that not only sustains, but surpasses-that moves beyond the imperative to be "less bad" and embrace an ethos to be "all good"From the Inspired Protagonist and Chairman of Seventh Generation, the country's leading brand of household products and a pioneering "good company," comes a one-of-a-kind book for leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents everywhere. The Responsibility Revolution reveals the smartest ways for companies to buil...

Sometimes radical yet always applicable, Brick by Brick abounds with real-world lessons for unleashing breakthrough innovation in your organization, using LEGO--which experienced one of the most remarkable business transformations in recent history--as a business model.As LEGO failed to keep pace with the revolutionary changes in kids' lives and began sliding into irrelevance, the company's leaders implemented some of the business world's most widely espou...

LEGO, wie groeide er niet mee op? Het bedrijf produceert 19 miljoen steentjes per jaar, veroverde de harten van meer dan 400 miljoen mensen wereldwijd en behaalt de laatste paar jaar jaloersmakende resultaten. Toch was de LEGO-basis niet altijd even stevig. Nog geen tien jaar geleden, na inmenging van externe consultants en innovators, balanceerde LEGO op het randje van een faillissement. Steen voor steen kijkt terug op de laatste tien jaar en laat zien hoe het bedrijf de zogenaamde 'Zeven...

LEGO is one of the world's best-loved and most familiar brands, adored by generations of children. What is less well known, though, is how close this iconic company came to total collapse in 2003.Brick by Brick is the compelling story of a Danish family-owned company that enjoyed decades of success before its inability to keep in step with a rapidly changing market brought it crashing to earth. It's also the story of an extraordinary recovery. As disaster stared them in th...

What fuels long-term business success? Not operational excellence, technology breakthroughs, or new business models, but management innovation-new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and formulating strategies. Through history, management innovation has enabled companies to cross new performance thresholds and build enduring advantages.In The Future of Management, Gary Hamel argues that organizations need management innovation now more than ever. Why? The mana...

The Responsibility Revolution is about about innovating new ways of working; instilling a new logic of competing; identifying new possibilities for leading; and redefining the very purpose of business. Jeffrey Hollender, founder of Seventh Generation, and Bill Breen, co-author of The Future of Management, have drawn on the best thinking not in the corporate responsibility arena, but in the realm of strategy, leadership, and management. They were granted access to all kinds of good-company ...

Historien om den verdensberømte legetøjsvirksomheds fald i 2003 og den spektakulære genkomst på det internationale marked er et af de helt store dramaer i nyere erhvervshistorie. LEGO-professor David C. Robertson har gransket de innovationsværktøjer, som LEGO bruger, og som enhver virksomhed kan tage i anvendelse for at fremme deres eget arbejde med innovation, kreativitet og produktudvikling.David Robertson har haft fuld adgang til alle LEGOs arkiver og til samtaler og interviews ...

This Book by Bill Breen is about how he overcame outstanding physical and mental problems. He had over the years, wrote this book while he labored during the days. This book is an autobiography about his life. He wrote this book from the left literally. He wrote quite, quite a lot with his left hand. Some things so simple this is hard to comprehend. The name of the book, By Bill, I think is a tribute to his name. He also goes by the name of William Edward.

"It is a common truth in my life that when it rains, it pours.The killings that once plagued New Orleans are cropping up again in Seattle. The local office is stumped. I’m called out to lend a fresh set of eyes, and my unique magical touch.It’s only when I get there that I realize the Seattle office isn’t stumped at all.They’re being silenced by the Mages’ Guild, a corrupt magical institution that doesn't want word to get out of what is plaguing the city. Worse, news o...