Leading Innovation

Leading Innovation weaves together information about what leaders must do to establish team cultures that allow creativity and innovation to thrive–and how these leaders become role models by developing and expanding their own innovative skills.

Innovative leaders must lead teams and organizations through paradigm shifts in a global high-tech network economy that demands continuous innovation. They lead teams through the Innovative Process, using both rational mind and creative mind. They break through typical mindsets to recognize new patterns, connecting the dots and making sense in new ways. They cross boundaries of all types, linking things that "don’t go together" to create innovations. They work on visualizing the not-yet seen and intuiting the next new thing. They develop future scenarios, compelling stories about how current trends may affect an organization’s future. They find their personal passion, which in turn fuels the motivation needed to keep innovating and learning. They use emotional skills for negotiating the Innovative Process, gathering support for bringing creative ideas to fruition as profitable innovations.

Leading Innovation is a book that takes students through the steps to building these skills and mastering these tasks, which are required of today’s leaders.