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...

Be the Innovation Disruptor

Disruption is commonly defined as a “disturbance or problems that interrupt an event, activity, or process.” Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, wrote that successful, outstanding “incumbent” companies can do everything right and yet still lose...

How Discomfort Spurs Innovation

Adaptation is usually triggered by some irritant or threat. Discomfort, disruption, and destruction are what drive an organization to adapt. If these forces did not exist, then nothing would change, year after year. But that’s not the way the world works—especially...