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Leadership Skills / Approaches for Successful Innovation
Anneke Zwart, Student (University), Netherlands, Moderator
Innovation leadership requires other approaches than general leadership for the core business. Furr and Dyer (2014) outline some unique leadership skills/approaches required for successful innovation:
1. RATHER THAN DICTATING A VISION, SET A BIG CHALLENGE
In traditional approaches to leadership, creating a vision in the sense that the strategic priorities of the company are outlined implies that the leader is the decision maker and directs the company to comply with those priorities.
In order to be a successful leader in innovation processes, it is important to “carve out the metal space within which the innovation process can be carried out” (ibid.). This means that a leader first need to set the expectation that the particular innovation will push the limits, which means that you transform some of the most important assumptions about your company’s goods, clients and business models. This can be a difficult task that can be shocking for people as it...
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Approaches for Successful Innovation
John Geurts, Consultant, Netherlands, Member First it's assumed that it's about innovation in an existing company and it's about disruptive innovation! A terrible combination.
1. You must ha... |
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Leadership Skills & Approaches for Innovation
Glover, Business Consultant, United Kingdom, Member Some nice points but I have to side more with John.
I think you need a leader with strong vision to launch the initial idea(s) and build enthuse ... |
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Leadership Sklls & Approaches for Innovation
K.Narayana Moorthy, HR Consultant, India, Member A. A good Leader has to be GREAT ACHIEVER: Innovation will be in the field of (a) 360 Personal Success; (b) Aware of People skills.
B. A good Lea... |
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Innovation Management Skills
Zaddock Oguta, Consultant, Kenya, Member 1. Leadership and people management skills: attract, retain, coach, motivate, develop team members.
2. Communication skills: communicate, assert,... |
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Disruptive Change Management
Jos Kok, Turnaround Manager, Netherlands, Member Why is the gap between theory and practice this big? The last 20 years I worked in companies and institutions that were forced to change by politics o... |
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It Depends on the Organization
Kurt Ludikovsky, Consultant, Austria, Member I can agree to most what has been said here and disagree at the same time.
- Let me ask a question: "Is it important that a ship's captain can re... |
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Innovation Types
CALLIGARO, Management Consultant, France, Member At first many thanks for your work, from my part I think that there are 2 main ways of Innovation:
- One is an occidental point of view: It consi... |
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Innovation Leadership Skills
m fransson, Manager, Sweden, Member In my opinion such leadership must set the vision and direction. Leader must also point out important areas of focus and challenging goals for the com... |
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Leadership and Followership in Innovation
John Geurts, Consultant, Netherlands, Member Innovation is a growth strategy. Also a broad concept, there are many types of innovation. From low amplitude innovation to high / disruptive amplitud... |
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Innovation Leadership
CALLIGARO, Management Consultant, France, Member At first, I may thank you for your explanation, and I may add the following ways to prevent a single way that you may put as the only one possible. Co... |
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Cultural Aspects in Leadership Skills in Innovation
Pablo Illingworth, Business Consultant, Ecuador, Member The 4 Areas mentioned sound really interesting but it is important to consider the culture when applying them. Sometimes leaders try to be focus on ne... |
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Leadership and Innovation,
CALLIGARO, Management Consultant, France, Member Many thanks for your comments, the normal way in developed nations is to increase the budget to increase creativity, by level effects, I observe that ... |
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Into the Unknown is a Different Paradigm
Gary Wong, Consultant, Canada, Premium Member When dealing with the unknown and I also include unknowables and unimaginables, deploying traditional methods from the Systems Thinking era is like na... |
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Leadership and Innovation
CALLIGARO, Management Consultant, France, Member At first many thanks to Gary Wong, for this point of view, positioned as a disruptive and original way of innovation.
A lot of questions for an i... |
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Innovation as a Core Business Philosophy
jorge anibal hoyos hoyos, Manager, Colombia, Member I think the innovation could not be something to get around to when it's convenient nor should it depend on proposals /guidance by those higher up in ... |
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Leadership and Innovation
K.Narayana Moorthy, HR Consultant, India, Member Thanks Mr. Calligaro, good day. Since we we were discussing about Disruptive Innovation in the Transformation of skills of a leader, I thought, Mr. Cl... |
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Effective Innovation Leadership
abedmadi, Coach, Palestine, State of, Member To be an effective innovation leader, you should make the others innovate themselves, by making the goals of your organization match their self goals.... |
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Leadership and Innovation
K.Narayana Moorthy, HR Consultant, India, Member Agreed with @ abedmadi. But then a discussion is needed between the organization's vision and goal annunciators and ... |
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