Radio Guest: Paul R. Williams, founder of the American Institute for Innovation Excellence

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January 07, 2011

Radio Guest: Paul R. Williams, founder of the American Institute for Innovation Excellence

Paul R. Williams is founder of the American Institute for Innovation Excellence and author of The Innovation Manager's Playbook and The Innovation Manager's Desk Reference. We're going to talk about his leadership role in the field of innovation and how businesses of all sizes and persuasions can use the resources he's provided in his two books, his blog, Think for a Change and his recently founded organization American Institute for Innovation Excellence to create a sustainable culture of innovation that brings progress, growth and success for all of their stakeholders.

Paul was guest on our show last May. You can listen here.

Why does innovation matter?

On a national level, other countries now eat our lunch and fruit breaks in innovation abilities. Whereas we once ranked as number one for innovation, we now rank...11th. We dropped 10 places in one year. And what a coincidence, decisions were made last year and the 2-3 years before which not only led to that drop in our ranks as an innovation leader, globally, but also led to a steep recession, increases in job losses, budget deficits growing, incomes declining.

That's why innovation matters.

Paul, with his 2 great books and now his American Institute for Innovation Excellence are on the frontline of reversing this trend. And by doing so, he is on the frontlines of rescuing our economy with new ideas, a sustainable means to insure we have a steady supply of them, and the jobs needed to bring those ideas to the marketplace.

The show starts at 9:30 AM, Central on Monday, January 10. Your listening options are listed below:

LIVE

1. Listen in streaming on-demand at this link.

2. Call 646-915-9212 during the live portion of the show starting at 9:30 AM

LATER

1. Listen in streaming on-demand at this link.

FTC Disclaimer

Paul has generously delivered a complimentary copy of each of his two books. And he has shared an hour of his time with the show in May. And he has agreed to share an hour of his time on this show on Monday, January 10th.

All that makes me a wealthy man.

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