3 Types (Levels) of Innovation Leaders

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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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