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The Pirate Approach to Innovation Leadership: How Thinking Like a Buccaneer Can Create Value for Your Enterprise

Qmarkets

However, the good news is that there are a few attributes of the privateer persona that can and should be emulated to enhance your innovation leadership skills (and we should emphasize that this doesn’t involve getting anyone to walk the plank). Good innovation leadership means remaining focused on three distinct horizons.

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The Pirate Approach to Innovation Leadership: How Thinking Like a Buccaneer Can Create Value for Your Enterprise

Qmarkets

However, the good news is that there are a few attributes of the privateer persona that can and should be emulated to enhance your innovation leadership skills (and we should emphasize that this doesn’t involve getting anyone to walk the plank). Good innovation leadership means remaining focused on three distinct horizons.

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Expert Q&A: Michael Stilger on Performance Excellence and the Continuous Improvement Process

Qmarkets

Qmarkets' Senior VP Michael Stilger has a unique understanding of how to successfully implement innovation strategies and optimize idea management, based on his experience as a senior innovation manager in large global firms as well as startup companies. Technology can be a blessing or a curse.

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Expert Q&A: Michael Stilger on Performance Excellence

Qmarkets

Also, it’s important to embrace crowdsourcing and realize that ideas can come from all employees, not just top management or the R&D department. You have several years of experience in the field of innovation and idea management. Despite the un-glamorous comparison, imagine a snail crawling up a glass window.

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Expert Q&A: Michael Stilger on Performance Excellence

Qmarkets

Also, it’s important to embrace crowdsourcing and realize that ideas can come from all employees, not just top management or the R&D department. You have several years of experience in the field of innovation and idea management. Despite the un-glamorous comparison, imagine a snail crawling up a glass window.

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Innovative law: Interview with Shaun Temby from Maddocs

Idea Drop

So, to go against that grain, and to create an environment where people feel safe to fail, and therefore, safe to take the risk, and therefore safe to suggest a new idea, or a new way of doing things is very different from the way that we normally operate.