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Innovative Team Collaboration: Igniting Creativity for Extraordinary Results

Leapfrogging

Nurturing Innovative Team Collaboration In the rapidly evolving business landscape, innovative team collaboration has become a cornerstone for companies seeking to remain competitive and adaptive. In this context, team collaboration isn’t just recommended; it’s imperative for survival and success.

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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements. No, today I want to talk about the differences and problems when companies focus on innovation as a discrete project, versus what they really need, innovation as a competency or capability.

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Empowering Leadership Excellence: Investing in Emotional Intelligence Training for Leaders

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It equips leaders with the tools necessary to connect with their team members on a deeper level, foster a collaborative environment, and navigate the complexities of workplace dynamics. Here are the core components of emotional intelligence that are crucial for leaders to develop.

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Ambidextrous organisations: Where innovation should sit in an organisation

Idea to Value

As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. Option 2: Innovation teams within each company brand / product unit. Companies that survive do both.

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The Hidden Advantage: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

Leapfrogging

Self-Regulation – Managing or redirecting one’s disruptive emotions. Leaders with high emotional intelligence are adept at navigating the social complexities of the workplace, leading and motivating teams, and fostering an environment that is conducive to high performance.

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What innovation leaders share with military leaders

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. Disruptions always come from unexpected places and from unexpected sources. How do innovation leaders help their teams and lead from the front? Communicate.

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The appropriate innovation speed: slow, then fast

Jeffrey Phillips

If you want to speed up procurement, for example, you'll refine your requisition process, cut time from evaluating vendors, work only with the most responsive vendors, train your procurement staff to process purchase orders more effectively, and so on. The problem with that speeding up concept was that most companies were starting from zero.