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Charles Leadbeater (1)

Autore di We-Think: Mass innovation, not mass production

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Fonte dell'immagine: Charles Leadbeater signing copies of his new book, "We-think: The Power of Mass Creativity", at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Opere di Charles Leadbeater

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Leadbeater, Charles
Nome legale
Leadbeater, Charles
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
UK
Attività lavorative
author
editor
journalist
academic
advisor
researcher
Premi e riconoscimenti
David Watt Prize for Journalism
Breve biografia
Charles Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and creativity. He has advised companies, cities and governments around the world on innovation strategy and drawn on that experience in writing his latest book We-think: the power of mass creativity, which charts the rise of mass, participative approaches to innovation from science and open source software, to computer games and political campaigning.

We-think, which is due to be published in 2007, is the latest in a string of acclaimed books: Living on Thin Air, a guide to living and working in the new economy; Up the Down Escalator, an attack on the culture of public pessimism accompanying globalisation and In Search of Work, published in the 1980's, which was one of the first books to predict the rise of more flexible and networked forms of employment.

In 2005 Charles was ranked by Accenture, the management consultancy, as one of the top management thinkers in the world. A past winner of the prestigious David Watt prize for journalism, Charles was profiled by the New York Times in 2004 for generating one of the best ideas of the year, the rise of the activist amateur, outlined in his report The Pro-Am Revolution.

As well as advising a wide range of organisations on innovation including the BBC, Vodafone, Microsoft, Ericsson, Channel Four Television and the Royal Shakespeare Company, Charles has been an ideas generator in his own right. As an associate editor of the Independent he helped Helen Fielding devise Bridget Jones's diary. He wrote the first British report on the rise of social entrepreneurship, which has since become a global movement.

Charles has worked extensively as a senior adviser to the governments over the past decade, advising the 10 Downing St policy unit, the Department for Trade and Industry and the European Commission on the rise of the knowledge driven economy and the Internet, as well as the government of Shanghai. He is an advisor to the Department for Education's Innovation Unit on future strategies for more networked and personalised approaches to learning and education. He is a co-founder of the public service design agency Participle.

A visiting senior fellow at the British National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts, he is also a longstanding senior research associate with the influential London think-tank Demos and a visiting fellow at Oxford University's Said Business School.

Charles spent ten years working for the Financial Times where he was Labour Editor, Industrial Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief before becoming the paper's Features Editor. In 1994 he moved to the Independent as assistant editor in charge of features and became an independent author and advisor in 1996.

Charles's current research focuses on how mass, user driven innovation is reshaping organisations, with users increasingly co-creators of products and services. He is also exploring the emergence of China, India and Korea as sources of research and innovation, through a two-year, £350,000 research programme, the Atlas of Ideas, funded by the British government and a consortia of companies.

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Good book on frugal innovation, with a nice group of case studies and a useful explanation of frugal approach in four terms: lean, simple, social and clean.
 
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d.v. | May 16, 2023 |
Future schools should be a creative community where kids find their life purpose? Maybe your organization or projects should be as those schools?
 
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open-leadership | Jan 24, 2018 |
Fairly empty book. An experiment by the author to co-write a book on co-writing by making it available on the web.
 
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Jkwant | 6 altre recensioni | Dec 15, 2010 |
A very brief cogent call for the formation of a national library development agency in the UK.
 
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TheoClarke | Nov 3, 2010 |

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Opere
23
Utenti
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Popolarità
#65,128
Voto
½ 3.4
Recensioni
10
ISBN
40
Lingue
5

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