3 Types (Levels) of Innovation Leaders

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🔥NEW 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:

1. ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERS. These are located typically in lower levels of the organization. The (...) Read more? Sign up for free
   

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		David Wilson, Manager, Canada
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		Victor Manuel Meneses Torres, Consultant, Mexico
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		Anonymous
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		Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands
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		David Wilson, Manager, Canada
	Power-Yielders and Power-Wielders @: Visionary leaders are often charismatic and the (...)

		Peter Cristea, Manager, Switzerland
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		Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands
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		R J Lozada, Management Consultant, Venezuela
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		Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands
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		Mrs.Sayran Ghafuri, Coach, Iraq
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