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Jose Luis Roces, Business Consultant, Argentina
"The main challenge to improve innovation is how to develop leaders which stimulate and sustain innovation instead of just looking at the bottom line figures.
Innovative culture is the consequence of the behaviour and decisions of the leaders in any company."
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Innovation - Leadership - Culture
Toba Folaranmi, Nigeria
"I've always been intrigued by the product of the interplay of the three concepts (innovation, leadership and culture). Nigeria is a peculiar case study and I'd appreciate some additional insight in causes and effects between them, as well as useful models or concepts." |
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How Leaders can Create an Innovative Environment
Philip Oldfield, UK
"I agree leaders need to create an environment where innovation can flourish, however, it must be bounded with controls. This isn't to say that the controls should be autocratic or coercive. The environment where individuals and teams can use their creativity to find solutions rather than just identifying the problems.
Armenikis uses the term "Framing" for change initiatives, the same principal applies to creating your innovative environment. Have a sound governance, recognition and reporting procedure, bind this to a performance structure that encourages creativity, provide the communication channels from bottom to top, and you may find that innovation and creativity roll out the other side.
Don't hedge all your bets on innovation alone, as most of us are still walking rather than floating around in hover boots." |
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In Reality, the Role of Leaders in Innovation is not so Impressive
Sokolova Tatiana, Russia
"Innovations hardly ever come from higher level of management, whether they might be political leaders or heads of big companies, as they are focused on stabilization of already existing products and services and consequently never risk trigger innovative ideas.
At the same time they understand that something has to be done to break through, but they fail to initiate new ideas.
So the driving engine for new ideas is either the lower level of organization which gives the innovative impulse to the system that later turns into a decision made as mentioned above, or the intellectual elite (scientists and designers) who remain comparatively free from any corporate obligations and are able to generate innovative ideas." |
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