Lisa Bodell Books

Focusing on enhancing productivity, this toolkit offers 13 practical tools designed for leaders and teams to foster a culture of essential work. By addressing issues like redundancy and ineffective communication, it empowers individuals to identify and eliminate time-wasting activities. The toolkit includes resources such as a Leadership Complexity Quiz, a Simplicity Vision Statement, and techniques for simplifying processes. Ultimately, it aims to reduce overwhelm and enable teams to engage in work that truly adds value.

Creativity coach Lisa Bodell is the founder and CEO of Futurethink, an innovation consultancy. Over the years, she has developed a system for turning tired, risk-averse corporate cultures into inventive juggernauts in relatively short order. Bodell tells you to "kill your company" and do it now, before someone else does. She urges you to look at your organization through the eyes of a ruthless competitor. Find your weaknesses, imagine the future of your industry and figure out how you'll get there. While some of the book's exercises might seem corny, each one is simple, yields immediate insights and connects to an overall approach that is engaging enough to win the attention of busy leaders, even skeptical ones. getAbstract believes this book will help CEOs, executives and managers spark creative change from the top down or, as Bodell recommends, from the "middle out."

Innovation expert Lisa Bodell shares ideas, diagnostic exercises, activities and tools to help leaders simplify corporate environments. She helps leaders embrace simplification as a habit. Bodell provides tools for getting started - often the biggest hurdle - while offering advice for people up and down the corporate ladder. Her well-defined exercises are engaging and useful. If you're ready to create simplified processes for long-term benefit, here's your open door.