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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

But, navigating this kind of complexity and uncertainty requires leaders to actively engage in sense-making to lead effective transformation with clarity and creativity. This approach is about breaking away from the rigid mindsets and structures that tend to stifle creativity. Horizon 1 activity has lower risk but also lower return.

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Striving for the innovation balance: between exploring and exploiting.

Paul Hobcraft

Roger Martin suggested some time back “ that modern leaders need integrative thinking to embrace complexity, tolerate uncertainty and manage tension in searching for creating solutions to problems “ It is learning to make different choices in a far more creative process, often more disruptive to our established norms.