Built for Breakthrough

""Stop your great ideas from dying an untimely death. This book will get your best innovation out the door and making millions."" Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit ""If you care about creating meaningful innovation inside real organizations, this book is a must-read. It provides powerful stories and practical tools to surface the insights that will move your company forward."" Alisa Cohn, author of From Start-Up to Grown-Up ""Built for Breakthrough is the jolt leaders need to escape autopilot and spark real innovation. It shows that breakthroughs come from human insight, not complexity, and gives leaders a clear path to energize and align their teams. Practical, inspiring, and deeply human. If you read one book to elevate creativity and performance this year, make it this one."" Kristi Herold, bestselling author of It Pays to PLAY ""Companies burn millions on beautiful strategy decks and trend reports, then wonder why nothing actually ships. Built for Breakthrough starts where other books stop: in the messy gap between idea and execution, where innovation actually lives or dies. Shelli Baltman and Fiona Stevenson have mapped the organizational resistance, misaligned incentives, and risk-averse leadership that quietly kills breakthrough work. If you're responsible for revenue from innovation, you need this book."" Joe Mechlinski, bestselling author of Grow Regardless and CEO of SHIFT ""Finally, an innovation book that doesn't feel like a textbook or a fantasy novel. Shelli Baltman and Fiona Stevenson have cracked open decades of scars, triumphs, hallway conversations, and 'oh-god-why-is-this-so-hard' truth and turned it into a field guide. It's smart, grounded, and human. It's generous instead of preachy. And it respects the reader's intelligence. Finally someone wrote the innovation manual that people who do real work can use."" Kelsey Kitsch, award-winning entrepreneur and bestselling author of Success Hangover