4 Key Personal Attributes for Innovation Leaders

To become and remain an innovation leader, be sure to focus on these four key personal attributes. When you have them, you’ll be much more likely to stay ahead of the innovation curve—and your organization will be all the more profitable. 1. Develop a Keen Inward...

Know the Innovator Personas in Your Company

We recommend our clients go through the process of ideation to identify the various personas of the key innovators working within their organization. This is a custom process. It’s not one-size-fits-all. In all their myriad behaviors, dreams, and expectations, humans...

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...