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 entrepreneurial firm to leading a start-up to managing the firm through its various growth phases. 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 multidisciplinary teams and a bottom-up spirit of experimentation 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, agile organizations typically seem to have 3 types of innovation leaders: (...) Read more? Sign up for free

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