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Is Your CEO Comfortable With Innovation?

From Blogging Innovation: "Why Innovation Makes Executives Uncomfortable."

"...when you really break it down, innovation requires a different set of skills from those we inculcated in our organizations. Here’s a simple dicotomy:
  • Innovation requires ART not SCIENCE.
  • Innovation requires QUALITATIVE insights not QUANTITATIVE statistics.
  • Innovation requires HUNCHES not FACTS.
  • Innovation requires RISKS not CERTAINTIES."
Overall, more innovation in an organization means less power residing in some walnut-paneled corner office.  Something to keep in mind the next time your latest and greatest innovative idea gets blown up in committee.  Perhaps it was a dumb idea and got what it deserved.  But maybe, just maybe, its only fault was where it originated.

And here are January's Top Ten Innovation and Marketing Articles.  Good list.

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Shereen said…
This would be the differentiation between leaders vs. managers.
February 3, 2011 at 6:45 AM
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