Igniting Change

You see what could be better at work. You do not have to quit your job to build it.

Igniting Change is a practical guide for the intrapreneur: the employee who finds, tests, and builds new value inside an organization. It shows how good ideas actually move through a company and why so many die in a meeting.

You will learn how to:

- Anchor your idea to what leaders already care about, in one clear sentence.

- Build a working coalition of sponsors, champions, and gatekeepers.

- Pitch so an executive can say yes to a small first step

- Test ideas with tools, data, and people the company already has.

- Design honest experiments with stop rules agreed in advance

- Lead across departments without formal authority

- Turn a pilot into a capability that runs without rescue

- Own your response, recover from setbacks, and keep momentum.

The book opens with the author's own story: fourteen days at minimum wage that became one of the top ten camera departments in all of JCPenney and the bargain he learned along the way. Researched case studies follow: Xerox PARC, Lockheed's Skunk Works, the 3M Post-it Note, and the Sony PlayStation. A teaching case runs through every chapter, with a 30-word dictionary, cut-out flashcards, and a free campus of online tools.

Published by Global Sovereign University, a tuition-free 501(c)(3) nonprofit funded by the sale of books like this one.