Imagine It Forward
Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change
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Beth Comstock
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From one of today's foremost innovation leaders, an inspiring, personal approach to mastering change in the face of uncertainty.
Named a 2018 Best Business Book Pick by Fast Company and Wired UK.
Confronting change is incredibly hard, both organizationally and personally. People become resistant. They are afraid. Yet the pace of change in our world will never be slower than it is right now, says Beth Comstock, the former vice chair and head of marketing and innovation at GE.
Imagine It Forward is an inspiring, fresh, candid, and deeply personal audiobook about how to grapple with the challenges to change we face every day. It is a different kind of narrative, a big-picture audiobook that combines Comstock’s personal story in leading change with vital lessons on overcoming the inevitable roadblocks. One of the most successful women in business, Comstock shares her own transformation story from introverted publicist to GE’s first woman vice chair and her hard-won lessons in shifting GE, a 125-year-old American institution, toward a new digital future and a more innovative culture.
As the woman who initiated GE's Ecomagination clean-energy and its (and NBC’s) digital transformations, Comstock challenged a global organization to not wait for perfection, but to seek out emerging trends, embrace smart risks, and test ideas boldly and often. She shows how each one of us can become a “change maker” by leading with imagination.
“Ideas are rarely the problem,” writes Comstock. “What holds all of us back, really - is fear. It’s the attachment to the old, to ‘What We Know.’”
As Comstock makes clear, transforming the mind-set and culture of a company is messy. There is no easy checklist. It is fraught with uncertainty, tension, and too often, failure. It calls for the courage to defy convention, go around corporate gatekeepers when necessary, and reinvent what is possible.
For all those looking to spearhead change in their companies and careers and reinvent “the way things are done”, Imagine It Forward masterfully points the way.
©2018 Beth Comstock and Tahl Raz (P)2018 Random House AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
“If there is one skill that more individuals and companies need to hone it's imagination. And if there is one person who can teach us how to do it, it’s Beth Comstock. Woven together through own journey, Comstock offers us simple and practical steps on things we can all do to prepare ourselves for the future...or even invent it.” (Simon Sinek, optimist and New York Times best-selling author of Start with Why and Leaders Eat Last)
“Beth Comstock has written a wonderful book, full of excellent insights and lessons from her hugely successful career. She has recently been elected to the advertising all of fame, and after reading this you will know why. This book is of great value to almost virtually any leader and her stories and examples are told in a breezy way that makes it a joy to read.” (Phil Knight, founder of Nike and New York Times best-selling author, Shoe Dog)
“Imagine It Forward is like having a coach on your shelf to help you lead forward. Beth shares her lessons on summoning candor, courage and action to make meaningful change happen in any organization.” (Kim Scott, New York Times best-selling author of Radical Candor)
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- Laura K
- 07-09-19
An intertesting read with some real gems in it.
This book was a fascinating read. The book contained a wealth of good information and useful techniques for navigating the thorny road of change management and future focus within a company, a few key ideas leapt out at me as being vital to keep in mind and particularly relevant for my role as a PM.
The value of identifying and nurturing “Sparks” within your team or organization. Those individuals who can imagine future improvements to the organization or project. The value of these individuals cannot be overstated, and if you find a good one it’s well worth it to nurture them and to help them keep the faith.
The encouragement to continually revise your pitch and engagement strategy, to always adapt your message appropriately to an audience. The ability to simplify and Reframe is a valuable skill for a PM to develop and can make the difference between running a successful project and stakeholders becoming dissatisfied or hostile to your progress. Keep telling the story until everyone knows it.
Finding ways to actively recruit and weaponize the gatekeepers within your company to improve the overall health of your project. I’ve run many projects over the years and by far the worst experience is when you have people who are simply naysaying and telling you why it can’t be done without offering anything in return. Someone standing in your way for no reason other than “We’ve always done it this way” offers nothing to you or the company. If you can turn them into someone who has a stake in your operation and a legitimate critique that lets you make your project better everyone wins.
The 1% improvement analysis section actually blew my mind. I’m a big fan of process improvements and making things better and more efficient. However, it’s very difficult to justify a lot of work over such small, incremental improvements. Unless you can bring the analytics in house and start putting numbers onto the smallest easy to understand improvement metric, you might be left in the cold for process improvements.
While the advice was generally compelling, one aspect I found truly interesting, and would have liked to have read more of, was the cognitive dissonance and resistance that the mere idea of change can provoke in an organization. A peek into the strain and dysfunction that a desire to innovate and stay relevant causes at an organization as entrenched as GE was fascinating to read about. The author was engaged in one of the world’s largest corporations for many formative years leading up until now, and It was a fascinating look at corporate culture at that time being forced to evolve with the times.
All in all I’m glad I read this book. It offered a different perspective on the corporate world than I typically hold and helped to put some higher-level decisions in context for me, which will let me appreciate the logic behind them when they happen within my organization.
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- Philip LaChance
- 02-27-19
Be the Unicorn.
Not often does a book captivate exactly how you feel in your own journey. This novel is a MUST buy audiobook, that is relatable to anyone at any point in their career (especially if you're the creative type). This novel is read with passion, innovation, and provides tangible action you can take today in your own business.
"If failure is not an option, then neither is success." If you can only choose one book to listen to this year, let it be this one. This isn't your cookie cutter self-help book, this is a career built with facts, failure, success, & plenty of lessons.
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- "archagent"
- 10-15-19
Excellent Biz Book... Wrong Performer
you would think that the author of a deeply personal memoir, even a business memoir would be the right person to read it. while Imagine It Forward Carrie's a very powerful message of dynamic change and transformational Entrepreneurship, the author Beth Comstock it's just a terrible person to read this book. She seems as if she's never heard half of the terms that she's reading. she expresses with awkward and halting tones a message that must be carried bye clear confidence and a powerful exposure to the subject area. this is one of those great business books that will probably be better red from the page than listened to. I strongly recommend the book but you should probably just pick up a paper copy.
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- Narek Mkheyan
- 11-20-18
Beth Rocks!
I really enjoyed this book. Beth has some good stories from her past at GE.
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- melissa bannon
- 06-14-19
amazing story
I felt like I got to know Beth, her victorys, her defeats--learnes a great deal!
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- Alejandra Gutiérrez
- 12-27-19
A must read for evolving change practioners
I really love all Beth insights about managing,dealing, struggling, and succeding with change. It is inspirational in going back to what matter most, despite of results or complex environment
Thanks Beth for the mix of a personal quest, encouraging message and passion that is needed to imagine forward
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- Tristan
- 02-18-20
good but long
great info and inspirational. I just wish it was edited down with less details on her work experiences
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- Chris Fralic
- 10-08-18
For Everyone In A Large Company Driving Change
Beth's book is an amazing story of her personal journey to the top of one of America's legendary companies. It's a very hard-hitting look at GE and NBC/Universal, her bosses and co-workers, her agency partners, and herself. I never knew about the time she was offered to join Apple by Steve Jobs. Anyone looking at driving change and innovation inside a big company should pick it up and Imagine It Forward.
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- Fred La Plante
- 05-19-21
Dealing with Change
Great story on how hard yet fulfilling it is to bring about change in an organization that has a storied history. So sad to see what often happens when change is rejected.
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- Matthew
- 12-20-18
Great story. Told with heart.
Anyone who wants to do more, has bigger ambitions then a job permits, will be inspired by BETH story. It’s wonderfully personal to hear her telling of it.
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