The Game-changer - How Every Leader Can Drive Everyday Innovation  (English, Paperback, Lafley A.G.)

The Game-Changer: How Every Leader Can Drive Everyday Innovation is a book designed to help readers achieve higher growth and higher margins in their organizations, even in the midst of multiple changes and uncertainties.

Summary of the Book

The Game-Changer: How Every Leader Can Drive Everyday Innovation is a book that promises to be worth a read as it comes from experts such as A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan. The book provides its readers with information that is vital for the success of any business organization in the world today. In this book, the authors provide readers with the inside stories into companies such as Nokia, GE, and Lego, helping them to tap into success by incorporating tried-and-tested principles.

The authors provide key tips that helped Procter & Gamble triple their profits, while improving their flow of revenue and operating margins. The company has also been successful in boosting their dividends. Using the example of this particular company and other companies as well, the authors have shown the readers how they can achieve the desired growth in their organizations.

The Game-Changer: How Every Leader Can Drive Everyday Innovation contains 10 chapters, and some of them include The Customer Is Boss, Leveraging What You Do Best, Integrating Innovation Into Your Routine, The New Job Of The Leader, Where To Play, How To Win and Organizing For Innovation.

The essential key, according to them, is innovation at every stage. They explain to the readers how to incorporate innovation into their decision making, and emphasize the need for innovation, citing it as being the only road to success for an organization. The Game-Changer: How Every Leader Can Drive Everyday Innovation is also able to provide the readers with the necessary insight on leadership as it should be in modern organizations.

About The Authors

A. G. Lafley is an entrepreneur and the CEO of Procter & Gamble. Apart from this book, Lafley has written a number of other books, and some of them include Playing To Win: How Strategy Really Works, Seizing The White Space: Growth And Renewal Through Business Model Innovation, and The Definitive Drucker.

Lafley was born on the 13th of June, 1947, in Keene, New Hampshire. He completed his schooling from Fenwick High School, Oak Park, Illinois, and went on to finish his AB degree from Hamilton College. Lafley also holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School, which he completed in the year 1977. He currently serves as the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of The Board, at Procter & Gamble. Lafley rejoined P & G on the 23rd of May, 2013, after retiring in the year 2010.

Raj Charan is a well-known speaker, author, and business consultant.  Apart from this book, Charan has authored several books, and some of them include What the CEO Wants You to Know: How Your Company Really Works, Leaders At All Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool To Solve The Succession Crisis, and Every Business Is A Growth Business: How Your Company Can Prosper Year After Year.

Charan completed his engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, and went on to pursue his MBA and doctoral degrees from Harvard Business School. Through the course of his career, he has served as a consultant for companies such as KLM, Bank Of America, GE, and Jaypee Associates.