The book, CATS: The Nine Lives of Innovation, introduced a brand new perspective on innovation. Now welcome to CATS: The Personal Guide, a practical tool to extend the journey.

Prowl through the four challenges, nine lives and five degrees of CAT belt, using the guide’s
exercises, provocations and points to ponder.

This workbook will help you develop a deeper understanding of innovation which will lead to
a more rewarding and productive work life for yourself and those with whom you work.

CATS: The Personal Guide
Stephen C Lundin, PhD with Vivienne Anthon, Carolyn Barker and Jimmy Tan
Illustrations by Stephen Francis
ISBN 9781921103070
Pub. date: September 2007
RRP: AUD$34.95
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Stephen C Lundin PhD
Steve Lundin, US author of the multi-million bestselling FISH!® books and most recently Top Performer, has been a working creative and a student of innovation and creativity for over 40 years. Steve is a writer, speaker, film maker, online professor and partner in Top Performer Academy.

He has long been bothered by the love/hate relationship that business has with innovation. While singing the praises of innovation, businesses are often quite uncomfortable with the parts and pieces. That discomfort is often the result of the odd and disjointed way creativity and innovation are presented.

Too often seminars and workshops on innovation are rich with wild and sometimes weird activities but light on application and structure. Steve has had a lifelong dream of creating a framework for innovation that both honors its heritage while simplifying the structure and clarifying its uses.

Vivienne Anthon
Vivienne Anthon is a successful Australian businesswoman, presenter, consultant, lecturer and author who has long been fascinated by the role and power of innovation and creativity. After receiving her law degree, she went on to obtain post-graduate qualifications in education and business.

She is convinced that innovation is not the sole preserve of large, well resourced companies, and not the exclusive domain of the so-called “creative class”.

Vivienne holds a number of board positions in the not-for-profit sector. She is fascinated by innovation in that sector, where limited resources and stakeholder complexities often combine to make innovation the key to survival.

Vivienne works with individuals to explore and mine personal innovation possibilities, which she believes are unlimited and which can be unleashed through the framework that CATS provides.

Carolyn Barker
Carolyn Barker is an Australian-based executive manager, publisher, journalist, adjunct professor and company director who travels throughout Australia and internationally to consult to the private and public sectors.

Carolyn has conceptualized and edited the bestselling Management Today book series which examines management, leadership, innovation and culture. She has a passion for innovation in the Performing and Visual Arts which
she supports through her work as Chair of the Board of The Queensland Orchestra. In 2005, Carolyn became a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to business through management and education and to the Arts.

Carolyn is a serial innovator who is sought out by businesses of all shapes and sizes to incubate ideas and bring them to market. Her optimistic and energetic attitude to learning combined with a personal motto is “If you dream it, it will come”, makes her an innovation mentor and advocate. In CATS Carolyn sees the framework that will support and inspire those who innovate to make a difference.

Jimmy Tan
Jimmy Tan is an accidental innovation champion who stumbled into the exciting world of innovation when he became Director of Entrepreneurship with a world leader in video technologies. It was in this role that he met Dr Stephen Lundin, while benchmarking innovation practices on a fellowship program with the Innovation Network. Thus began a love affair with ‘corporate innovation’.

And in the field of innovation Jimmy brings a strong foundation of practicality. Jimmy is committed to helping clients formulate and implement innovation strategies to improve business results. He organized one of Singapore’s first innovation conferences at a time when innovation was cited as a national imperative.

Jimmy continues to do research on corporate innovation, bringing his perspective to CATS. He has been featured on radio and regional television in Asia, sharing his ideas on change, leadership and innovation.