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Leadership and the Innovation Crisis

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Guest post from Alf Rehn: Some say we live in the golden age of innovation, an age ruled by transformation and revolution. Instead, I would argue that we live in the age of innovation crisis. We’ve never spent more on innovation, yet as many CEOs are starting to notice, the returns are diminishing, and the trend is down, not up.

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How to Build a Team of Innovators

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Guest post by Chuck Swoboda : As increasing competition, new technologies and evolving customer expectations continue to disrupt nearly every industry, business leaders are turning to innovation as a way to keep their companies relevant. The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. The problem?

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New Study IDs Best Companies for Leadership?, Innovation

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Hay Group just released its seventh annual Best Companies for Leadership Study. The Best Companies for Leadership consistently outperform their peers. I don't remember seeing innovation highlighted in previous results - were those new questions? The Top 20 connect leadership development with the business strategy.

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Boost Innovation by Strengthening the Organization’s Immune Systems

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Guest post by Kris Oestergaard: Today, every business is looking to find ways to streamline its innovative abilities. Those successful in establishing a culture of innovation have addressed their organization’s “immune systems.” Organizational leaders need to address all three in order to transform into innovation champions.

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How Leaders can Ignite Innovation

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An executive at a company I work with recently told me: “W e have very creative employees who want to be innovative but find many obstacles created by the cultural opposition to it. We spend a lot of time training and encouraging employees at all levels how to be more creative and innovation. Allow employees time to innovate.

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How to Solve Your Most Difficult Leadership and Talent Challenges

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Now we are looking at leadership opportunities that might not have been previously considered. Their myopic focus on this one tool limited their ability to “see” other leadership development solutions. For over 20 years, Stephen Shapiro has presented his provocative strategies on innovation to audiences in 50 countries.

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Ambidextrous Innovation:

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How Can Leaders’ Best Explore and Exploit both Disruptive and Incremental Approaches to Innovation? These players test more established racers with breakthrough innovations. Yet such a rapid and competitive approach to innovation may not be sustainable over the long term. So how can you successfully navigate the innovation race?