Tan The Uncertainty Mindset

Innovation Insights from the Frontiers of Food
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-55187-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Drawing on years of unprecedented access to the best and most influential culinary R&D teams in the world, Vaughn Tan reveals how they exemplify what he calls the uncertainty mindset. A revelatory look at the R&D kitchen, The Uncertainty Mindset upends conventional wisdom about how to organize for innovation and offers practical insights.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tan, Vaughn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. A Partial History of New Ideas in Food
1. From the Margins to the Center
2. The Undercurrents of the New
Part II. What Is Innovation in Food?
3. Well-Known, Barely Understood
4. Four Types of New Ideas in Food
Part III. Innovation Is Uncertainty
5. A Nondelusional Worldview
6. The Uncertainty Mindset
Part IV. Building the Ever-Changing Team
7. Innovation Implies Change
8. Building Innovation Dream Teams
Part V. Creating the New Familiar
9. The Power of Familiar Novelty
10. Learning House Style
Part VI. Staying in the Discomfort Zone
11. The Motivation Paradox
12. Desperation by Design
Part VII. Insights from the Frontiers of Food
13. All Change
14. A Mindset for an Uncertain World
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Vaughn Tan is an assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at University College London’s School of Management. He previously worked for Google in California.