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Are you a Direction Setter? How to Bring the Future into Focus

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One that offers the organization’s most creative people a sandbox in which they can operate. As a direction setter, you must go beyond the data and tell a compelling story about future potential that engages people more deeply and inspires them to bring their creative best. They work hard to create a compelling vision of the future.

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The Innovative Mentor

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When is it time for individual vision and when is it essential to collaborate and build a strong team with a shared vision? Innovation means change, and change can be quite disruptive and emotionally charged. Organization silos prevent cross-boundary collaboration and limit the scale, speed, and impact of innovation.

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Barrier Buster: Clearing the Way for Breakthrough Ideas

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Often, managers are required to play the role of a barrier buster to ensure the team’s creativity delivers bottom line results for the business. Innovation means change, and change can be quite disruptive and emotionally charged. Being able to gain concessions without damaging relationships is a valuable skill.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

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Other times, by limiting responsibility for innovation for a specific department, organizations underutilize the creative capabilities of other employees. For bold new ideas with big commercial potential, leaders often set up Venture Boards, specifically tasked with evaluating and investing in larger and more disruptive proposals.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

Other times, by limiting responsibility for innovation for a specific department, organizations underutilize the creative capabilities of other employees. For bold new ideas with big commercial potential, leaders often set up Venture Boards, specifically tasked with evaluating and investing in larger and more disruptive proposals.

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The dos and don'ts of innovation shared by 10 global leaders

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Co-owner of Koch Industries and one of the top ten billionaires in the world according to Forbes, Charles Koch believes that you should “embrace change, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.” Easily the first lesson in the innovation handbook, asking “why” and “what-if” will set the ball rolling.

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Top 10 must-read books on Innovation

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Being innovative or creative looks like an inherent trait to most of us, doesn’t it? However, if you’ve been one of those lucky ones who had “creativity” as an academic discipline at school, you’d know that it can at least be nurtured. Perhaps, like renowned educationalist, Sir Ken Robinson says, “We got educated out of creativity.”

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