Overview

Driving innovation in large organizations is as engaging and thrilling as a heist movie. Are you ready to embark on the adventure of transforming your ideas into impactful realities? In The Inside Job, Ed Essey, a senior director at The Microsoft Garage with decades of experience in driving innovation, offers just that: a game-changing guide for high performers and innovation leaders who refuse to settle and want to empower their crew so bold ideas flourish. Inspired by the narrative style of a heist story, The Inside Job combines practical advice and engaging storytelling from a mastermind intrapreneur. It shows you the essential skills you need to create change. Filled with examples from intrapreneurs who have been coached by Essey himself, The Inside Job uses real-world cases to illustrate concepts. Each chapter provides strategies, tools, and moves that you can immediately apply to foster innovation within your organization. Hand-drawn images add a personal and visual touch. You will learn the secrets to ● navigating with your own internal compass, ● assembling a diverse and effective crew, ● identifying and seizing valuable opportunities, ● developing and leveraging each crew member's unique skills, ● conducting thorough research and creating strategic plans, ● executing plans with precision and adapting to unexpected challenges, and ● celebrating success and ensuring long-term impact. With The Inside Job, Ed Essey provides intrapreneurs and innovation leaders with the confidence and tools needed to navigate their organizations' internal processes, secure sponsorship, and turn vision into results. Whether you're a seasoned intrapreneur, top performer, or just starting your journey, this book will empower you to drive innovation-from turning on the ignition to making a clean getaway-and ensure what you've pulled off stands the test of time.

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Reviews

""When you find yourself working in your enterprise's Incubation Zone, you quickly realize that, unlike with the Performance Zone or the Productivity Zone, there is no established playbook to work from. Well, now there is. Ed Essey's The Inside Job is as good as it gets."" Geoffrey A. Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Zone to Win ""The Inside Job is a book about the inner work that each of us needs to do to become a better-more confident, caring, and effective-human being. Packed with wisdom and tools in equal measure, this is a book to be put to immediate use."" Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and author of Right Kind of Wrong ""Ed Essey combines real-world stories, practical tools, and hard-won wisdom to create a field guide for anyone trying to drive meaningful change from within."" Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way ""The Inside Job is a rare combination: a compelling narrative with tools that stand up in real organizations. Ed Essey translates the complex into something clear, teachable, and immediately actionable."" Nicole Forsgren, PhD, coauthor of Accelerate and Frictionless ""For too long, intrapreneurs played defense inside big companies. The Inside Job hands you the offensive playbook-how to think like a founder, act like a builder, and create real growth from within."" Marcus Daniels, founding partner and CEO at Highline Beta

Author Information

Ed Essey is an innovator, coach, and storyteller who believes deeply in the power of passionate people to make meaningful change in the world. As a senior director at The Microsoft Garage, he has spent decades coaching bold intrapreneurs, helping them turn visionary ideas into meaningful impact. A lifelong fan of heist movies, fantasy novels, and insightful business and self-help books, Ed sees intrapreneurship as a daring quest to break through the walls of convention and complacency. He is known for turning complex challenges into clear, playful strategies that inspire real transformation. Ed is a proud MIT graduate, cancer survivor, and dedicated father to two amazing children, Edward and Layla. When he's not guiding crews to innovate, you'll find him reading by the waterfront, hitting the gym, or happily explaining the plot twists of his latest favorite film to anyone who'll listen. He lives and works mindfully in Seattle. You can connect with Ed at edessey.com.

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