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Do you recognize your innovators leaders position?

Paul Hobcraft

Often innovation succeeds or fails by the personal involvement and engagement of a ‘selected’ few. Recognizing the types of innovation leadership might help you manage the innovation work a little better. I am drawing from this book on some thoughts about innovation leadership. Are they a front-end or back-end innovation leader?

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Is it Possible to Outpace Disruption? Definitely.

Daniel Burrus

Having written eight bestselling books including The Leadership Mindset and being a principal at the Disruption Lab, a consulting group that advises companies on strategies for innovation and growth, Joe spoke on how business leaders can stay ahead of disruption instead of trying to avoid it. This may be a crazy comparison, I know.

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Capabilities and Leadership Close the Skills Gap in Manufacturing

Innovation 360 Group

When it comes to innovation, building capabilities and applying the right leadership style give top performing manufacturers the edge over skills-focused peers. Very often the talent equation can be solved by finding and activating radical pockets within the organization and supporting them with the right leadership and structure.

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Defining a Systematic Approach to Oil and Gas Real-Estate Portfolio Management and Optimization

Planview

Engage with leadership using visualizations developed from models and comparisons Robust conversations produce alignment with strategic groupings and a clear definition of roles and resource requirements. The end result is alignment and agreement on the path forward.

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Seeking out knowledge that feeds our innovations

Paul Hobcraft

Organizations need to move well beyond their lazy reliance on best practice comparison and they need to find better ways to explore emerging practices. Or is the knowledge gained just left ‘resident’ in the person, not being put to that greater use? Knowledge exchange is the way forward but we need to avoid the easy paths.

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Turning Intuition into Science©

MSSBTI

Understanding how your organization really functions and making decisions based on data that comes from this understanding, is critical to innovation, creativity, a competitive advantage and employee engagement. communication issues, silos, leadership). Identification of leadership style(s) throughout the organization.

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Are you having fun riding the innovation waves?

Paul Hobcraft

This certainly involves investing a lot into getting a certain clarity and perspective, through researching constantly, finding fresh insights, sifting through comparisons, discussing and exploring them, so as to eventually determine the value to specific challenging environments and different organisational maturity levels.