It can be very challenging to be an innovation leader. In a corporate structure, leaders are responsible for both encouraging innovation in the people who work below them in the organization while also driving leadership at the top. Here are five skills that are essential to helping you meet this particular challenge.
Key Takeaways:
- Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates.
- Canadian thought leader Lynn Sharatt defines innovation leadership as the “process of synthesizing leadership styles to influence employees to produce creative ideas and solutions to the problems that they encounter.”
- This might sound simple enough, but the key variable is “leadership styles” – there are countless options here and it can be incredibly difficult to know which will work best.
“Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates.”
http://www.ceo.com/technology_and_innovation/5-essential-skills-for-every-innovation-leader/
