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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. So can you recognize the traits of your innovation leader? Are they a front-end or back-end innovation leader?

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Building an Agile & Innovative Organization

Idea to Value

In recent years, more and more companies have realized the need for innovation as they’ve seen businesses all around them, and perhaps even their own business, being disrupted. According to McKinsey research , 96% of executives have made innovation a strategic priority, yet only 6% are satisfied with their innovation performance.

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Seeking out knowledge that feeds our innovations

Paul Hobcraft

The more we embrace change and recognize innovation demands more of our time, the more we must seek out knowledge that ‘feeds’ innovation. Innovation needs organizing but it also needs a better understanding of its contributing parts. So what is your capacity for innovation really like within your organization?

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The Art of Decision-making as an Innovation Leader

Viima

As we all know, innovating and creating something new is usually seen, for good reason, as an important, yet highly risky endeavor. As such, innovation leaders are constantly under a lot of pressure from many different directions. These are without a doubt all very important topics, but they still pale in comparison to decision-making.

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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). Surely these are the traits that any innovation leader should possess.

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The Art of Decision-making as an Innovation Leader

Idea to Value

As we all know, innovating and creating something new is usually seen, for good reason, as an important, yet highly risky endeavor. As such, innovation leaders are constantly under a lot of pressure from many different directions. These are without a doubt all very important topics, but they still pale in comparison to decision-making.

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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.