Many leaders rely too heavily on past achievements, practices, and ways of thinking to drive positive results today, but they often need to unlearn those behaviors before they can take a step forward; this is the essence of innovation.
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5 Ways to Be A Better Leader For Innovation
You can tell whether a business has innovation potential by the way it leads and its priorities; both are critical measures of innovation. The first one, leadership, I’ll focus on here.
When A Focus On Short-term Results Kills Innovation
Why do established businesses fail? Because they miss the future. And what contributes to them missing the future? Many things, among them is a focus on maintaining the status-quo while avoiding uncertainty.
Here’s a short story of how innovation dies inside established organizations that have a short-term results focus…
How Do You Ensure Your Culture Keeps Driving Innovation?
in Innovation, Leadership
Organizations don’t resemble their early years as they become successful and establish themselves. They shift from playing to win to a playing not to lose mindset. The organization matures and puts more effort into short-term thinking and maintaining the status-quo; they put more focus on protecting and maintaining what they have.
Next Economy Leadership Code: 6 Timeless Leadership Principles
The Next Economy will be driven by 10 key emerging technologies, which are being deployed at scale by GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) and Microsoft; among others.
This is a new world, where you’re either a digital business or a dead business; and requires a different type of leadership.
Status Quo Culture Versus Innovation Culture
What does a culture of innovation look like? Last week I gave a talk at an event on the foundations of a culture of innovation. Instead of telling you what a culture of innovation looks like (they’re all different but share habits), I focus on what all organizations do to impede it.