Innovation Resources
My personal curated resource library to help you lead change, build teams, and create the future. I have handpicked these resources from my experience using them in my teaching, leading, or consulting practices.
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Dan’s Top Picks
The best resources for innovation I know about. I personally have written or used these books in my courses, consulting, and research. They are also the top references for many of my presentations and lectures. Clicking on the image will take you to Amazon to review the resource in further detail.
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Title: Leadership for Nursing Practice: Changing the Landscape of healthcare (4th ed)
Author: Dan Weberg + Kara Mangold
Audience: Nurses at all levels. Charge Nurses, Nurse managers and directors. RN to BSN students, MSN students, and frontline leadership development groups.
Topics: Staffing, leadership, change, professional practice, shared governance, frontline leadership
Description: A practical guide for any nurse leader to build teams, lead units, and develop as a professional. Used as a core leadership text in nursing programs across the country.
Title: Leadership for Evidence Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions (2nd ed)
Author: Dan Weberg + Sandra Davidson
Audience: Nurse leaders at all levels. Charge Nurses, Nurse managers and directors. RN to BSN students, MSN students, and frontline leadership development groups.
Topics: Innovation, complex systems, performance improvement, technology disruptions, leading change, and innovation.
Description: The Second Edition has been heavily revised to refine the focus on leadership of innovation and place less foundational focus on the evidence-based practice process. It features three new chapters discussing workarounds as a source of innovation, performance improvement, and leadership vs. innovation methodology.
Title: Managing Innovation (7th Ed)
Author: Tidd and Bissant
Audience: Leaders of any industry interested in the science and tactics of innovation
Topics: Innovation, management, change, market dynamics, organization structure, adaptability
Description: This is the best book I have seen related to the tactics of innovation across industries. Their description of innovation, how organizations adapt, and the case studies make it easy for any leader to learn and execute on their learnings. This text is used as a foundation for our advanced innovation and high-performing organization courses in the Masters in Healthcare Innovation program at The Ohio State University College of Nursing
Title: Switch
Author: Dan and Chip Health
Audience: Leaders of any industry interested in positive deviance
Topics: Positive deviance, innovation, management, change, market dynamics,
Description: Dan and Chip Heath are some of my favorite authors. This book uses stories to help leaders learn about positive deviance. Positive deviants are those who thrive in systems that are failing. Nurses will resonate with this text especially. This is a great supplement to the theory and application books listed here.
Contributed Books
These are some of the books I have contributed to either with a chapter or a case study. They are written by some of my mentors and most trusted colleagues.
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Selected References I Use the Most
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