The Key to Innovation Leadership Is Respect

When Steve Jobs died in 2011, many investors wondered how the company could continue without his singular presence. But others knew better. As Eric Jackson wrote in The Street in 2012, shortly after the death of Jobs, “Apple could have the most amazing management team...

Innovation Leaders Embrace Feedback

If human employees were robots who instantly followed commands from the singular controlling entity, then the top-down model would be the most agile; and if the all-powerful leader were endowed with perfect abilities and flawless judgment, the organization would stay...

Insight: The Innovation of Servant Leadership

Innovations aren’t always amazing inventions or new products. In many cases, the most powerful innovations are internal, and which affect or transform the way an organization operates. This includes the delicate relationship between a leader and his or her employees....

The US Army: A Surprising Center of Innovation

It’s easy to think of innovation as happening only in a trendy Silicon Valley or Brooklyn startup, where kids ride bicycles to work and appear to be thinking about stuff that may become real ten years from now. In fact, meaningful innovation can happen in every type...