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Question
openly the impact of not only actions of others
but also those of yourself to inspire employees
to learn from you and do like wise. |
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Stretch Yourself
Lead Yourself |
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Customer Focus
Love your customers, care about them and
live this principle daily in order to keep
creating
innovative value for them. Build
cross-functional innovation teams and let people
in different product groups and disciplines
synergize their inputs and contribute
jointly to the new market space. |
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Inspire and Guide People
Your job as a
leader is to make sure everybody in the company
has great opportunities, a space for innovation,
and that they feel they're having a meaningful
impact.
Pick the right
set of innovation initiatives for your
innovation portfolio and make sure that your organization is
strategically aligned.
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Leadership-Management Synergy
Synergize leadership and management roles.
Managers provide structure and look after
details. Leaders provide an inspiring big
picture and lead improvisation.
The resulting
jazz-like innovation process creates and
delivers outstanding value to customers and
stakeholders. |
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Leading innovation
requires a visionary purpose and goals. Make
sure you keep stretch in your vision,
communicate it constantly, and keep linking the
events of today to your vision, underscoring the
relationship between the two.
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The Jazz of Innovation: 11
Tips
Loose-Tight Leadership |
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