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3 Types (Levels) of Innovation Leaders
Jaap de Jonge, Management Consultant, Netherlands
Each phase in leading and structuring an innovative firm has its own challenges. From founding an to leading a to managing the firm through its various .
Organizing and leading innovation in a LARGE firm is at least equally challenging. It’s particularly important and hard to achieve a proper balance between the needs for creativity and for control:
- CREATIVITY to empower the scarce entrepreneurial forces and talent;
- CONTROL to establish the required internal controls and avoid chaos.
Professor Ancona et al. are doing research at MIT Sloan on organizational excellence in innovation in large firms. In a recent article, they mention that establishing and a spirit of are well-known ingredients, but they focus on what types of innovation leaders are needed in such agile enterprises. Ancona c.s. found that large, typically seem to have 3 types of innovation leaders:
- ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERS. These are located typically in lower levels of the organization. The (...) Read more? Sign up for free
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