Sparking Success - by Adam Kingl

About the Book

Uncover your creative spark and discover how it can revolutionize your leadership.

Book Synopsis

Sparking Success is a fascinating exploration of how you can spark a creative mindset that will lead to dramatic results for both you and your business. Revolutionize your leadership through the book's practical insights, supported by high-profile interviews and insightful case studies.

Studies show that 80% of people feel an increasing pressure to be productive rather than creative at work. Sparking Success not only demonstrates how a creative mindset can be instilled in your business; it also highlights how creativity is a hugely valuable tool for productivity and innovation. Whether you're running a small team or a multinational corporation, the art of leadership has transformed dramatically. The traditional approaches to corporate leadership lack the innovation and fluidity required for success in modern-day disruptive markets. In order to succeed, you need to spark a creative outlook that will allow you to adapt to fast-moving trends and innovations.

In this book, Adam Kingl investigates the leaders and businesses across a range of industries who are effectively adopting a creative mindset. From media powerhouses such as Netflix and Disney to major manufacturers such as Bosch and Panasonic, the book clarifies the importance of creativity and innovation for business leaders across all sectors. Each of the book's core chapters poses a challenge or opportunity that will trigger an innovative mindset, before providing insights from notable leaders who have overcome creative challenges. Sparking Success is a groundbreaking leadership guide which highlights an innovative approach that will build you into a dynamic, creative and empathetic leader.

Review Quotes

"Sparking Success achieves exactly what the title promises: it helps every leader to be much more creative, an essential attribute in our unfamiliar times of opportunity, challenge and change. Adam Kingl is a masterful writer about business and leadership: insightful, engaging and highly original."-- "Jeremy Kourdi, Writer, Entrepreneur and former Senior Vice President, The Economist"

"Sparking Success is a must-read for any leader looking to tap into their creative potential and drive their organization to new heights. Filled with practical advice and real-world examples, this book will empower managers to develop a creative mindset and unleash their full leadership potential."-- "Davide Ravasi, Director, Professor and Head of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, UCL School of Management"

"Sparking Success is a wonderful book that explores how ideas and practices from the arts world-including theatre, television, music, writing and painting-can help us enhance creativity at both the individual and the organizational level. This is a powerful book, full of ideas, practical tools and inspiring stories to guide us in the journey of developing a creative mindset. It belongs on the shelf of every leader!"-- "Costas Markides, Professor of Strategy, Holder of the Robert Bauman Chair in Strategic Leadership at London Business School"

"Adam Kingl bridges the gap between creative idea generation and practical business application. Highly recommended!"-- "Michael J. Gelb, author, executive coach and management consultant"

"Adam Kingl is inspirational, comprehensive and practical and provides rich context to a critical 21st century question: how to bring creativity to work? If you are interested in restoring creativity or leading creatives, read his book Sparking Success!"-- "David Brown, Director of Executive Education, Imperial College Business School"

"Adam Kingl tackles one of the greatest challenges that organizations face - how to improve creativity, innovation and adaptability - by applying lessons from some of the most innovative leaders on the planet. This book is inspiring, warm-hearted and highly applicable."-- "Sharmla Chetty, CEO, Duke Corporate Education, Duke University"

"Adam's new book is truly inspiring, drawing on threads from history, neuroscience, jazz, improvisation, storytelling and art to weave together a colorfully vivid tapestry representing human adaptation and innovation, and describing how organisations can impactfully and positively contribute to improving the world through novel, cutting edge thinking and practices."-- "John Davis, Professor of Practice, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon"

"From an author steeped in highly creative cultures, as well as top notch learning environments, Sparking Success is a brilliantly written, practical guide that will unlock you and your team's creativity."-- "Richard Hytner, Former Deputy Chairman Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, Adjunct Professor of Marketing at London Business School"

"How can the different creative arts inspire better leadership and management? This wide ranging book gives insight and, what's more, a helpful guide for practical action."-- "Rob Goffee, Emeritus Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School"

"In Sparking Success, Adam Kingl nimbly offers a journey of first-hand lessons from leaders in the arts on how to unlock our own creativity to be natural and genuinely effective at whatever it is that we do."-- "Dina Dommett, Dean of Ashridge, Hult International Business School"

"Kingl has roamed the realms of jazz, cooking, writing, and the performing arts in search of nuggets of wisdom for hard-pressed leaders who urgently need to innovate. He's returned with a treasure trove of practical ideas on how to weave creativity into your life and work."-- "Greg Orme, keynote speaker, author and facilitator"

"Through his global work in executive education, Adam has extensive real-world experience working with senior executives and leaders from a diverse group of industries and sectors. This sets him firmly apart from so many others in this space, and he brings it all to bear here in a book harnessing a kaleidoscope of viewpoints to unleash the power of creativity for true business impact."-- "Bruce Wiesner, Associate Dean, Executive Education, UBC Sauder School of Business"

"With the rapid progress of artificial intelligence, this book is a thought provoking and practical guide to elevating creativity in the workplace, providing a timely stimulus to the redefinition of our relationship with technology."-- "Tim Phillips, Managing Partner, Gate One"

About the Author

Adam Kingl is a speaker, educator, adviser and author who specializes in the areas of leadership creativity, innovation and adaptability. He is an adjunct faculty member at the UCL School of Management and at Hult Ashridge Business School, and is an instructor at Imperial College London, Sauder Business School, the Irish Management Institute at University College Cork, and at Headspring Executive Development.

Adam Kingl is also an Associate of the Moller Leadership Institute at Churchill College, University of Cambridge and has also featured in publications such as the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Forbes, Fortune Magazine, The Guardian, and City AM. Adam Kingl is based in London, UK.