Innovation Elegance: Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace

Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace is the first book in the Innovation Elegance series. Although software is not what makes innovation difficult, innovators rely on software-centric methodologies. What makes innovation difficult is people: how we interact, govern, collaborate, or fail to collaborate. A people-centric methodology isn't shocking or revolutionary. It's just overdue.


This book explains how to adopt the metaphors of an expectation-setting factory and the performing arts (theater, improv, partner dance, and music). The series' second book explains how to adopt the metaphor of an asset portfolio - documentation that represents love letters that benefit your future team. The series' third book explains how to distinguish and navigate good, bad, and false leadership.


Innovation Elegance converts chaos and cruelty into discipline and empathy through familiar activities, habits, and language. Innovators will be able to crawl, walk, run adopting tools to shape culture, raise project success rates, and improve the employee experience. Instead of pursuing a competitive advantage, the frontier of innovation and your profitability is pursuing a collaborative advantage.

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Innovation Elegance: Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace

Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace is the first book in the Innovation Elegance series. Although software is not what makes innovation difficult, innovators rely on software-centric methodologies. What makes innovation difficult is people: how we interact, govern, collaborate, or fail to collaborate. A people-centric methodology isn't shocking or revolutionary. It's just overdue.


This book explains how to adopt the metaphors of an expectation-setting factory and the performing arts (theater, improv, partner dance, and music). The series' second book explains how to adopt the metaphor of an asset portfolio - documentation that represents love letters that benefit your future team. The series' third book explains how to distinguish and navigate good, bad, and false leadership.


Innovation Elegance converts chaos and cruelty into discipline and empathy through familiar activities, habits, and language. Innovators will be able to crawl, walk, run adopting tools to shape culture, raise project success rates, and improve the employee experience. Instead of pursuing a competitive advantage, the frontier of innovation and your profitability is pursuing a collaborative advantage.

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Innovation Elegance: Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace

Innovation Elegance: Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace

by Robert F. Snyder
Innovation Elegance: Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace

Innovation Elegance: Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace

by Robert F. Snyder

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Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace is the first book in the Innovation Elegance series. Although software is not what makes innovation difficult, innovators rely on software-centric methodologies. What makes innovation difficult is people: how we interact, govern, collaborate, or fail to collaborate. A people-centric methodology isn't shocking or revolutionary. It's just overdue.


This book explains how to adopt the metaphors of an expectation-setting factory and the performing arts (theater, improv, partner dance, and music). The series' second book explains how to adopt the metaphor of an asset portfolio - documentation that represents love letters that benefit your future team. The series' third book explains how to distinguish and navigate good, bad, and false leadership.


Innovation Elegance converts chaos and cruelty into discipline and empathy through familiar activities, habits, and language. Innovators will be able to crawl, walk, run adopting tools to shape culture, raise project success rates, and improve the employee experience. Instead of pursuing a competitive advantage, the frontier of innovation and your profitability is pursuing a collaborative advantage.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798988899723
Publisher: Innovation Elegance, LLC
Publication date: 12/23/2023
Series: Innovation Elegance
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 242
File size: 1 MB

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction: A People-Centric Methodology 1

Defining the Problem 3 

The Experience-Based Economy 12 

A Culture of Innovation Elegance 14

Ruthless Discipline: Culture Disguised as a Factory 19

Economics 22 

Speed/Tempo 34 

Quality 40 

Waste 50 

Vigilance 60 

Variability 64 

Automation 74 

Ease 80 

Autonomy 90 

Elasticity 94 

Conclusion: Innovation Culture Like a Factory 105

Graceful Empathy: Culture Disguised as the Arts 106

Comparing a Graceful Factory with a Ruthless Factory 110 

Common Experiences across the Empathetic Arts 113 

Artists' Collaborative Advantage 115 

Artists' Competitive Advantage 131 

The Artist-Audience Intersection 145 

Distinct Experiences within Each Empathetic Art 156 

Parenting 157

Martial Arts 166 

Improv 179 

Music 188 

Dance 197 

Theater 212

Conclusion 219 

Afterword 223 

Author Biography 225

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