Empowering for Innovation

A great leader can turn people into entrepreneurs who are hungrily looking for new opportunities.  The key is empowerment.  By empowering people you enable them to achieve goals through their own ideas and efforts.  The leader sets the destination but the team chooses the route.

People need clear objectives so that they know what is [...]

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Put Your Best People on Innovation

Many businesses make the mistake of giving innovation projects to junior executives.  It seems natural to hand innovation opportunities to enthusiastic and promising upstarts.  But generally it is the experienced heavyweights who can overcome all the process and political obstacles that will occur. 

In September 1999 Lou Gerstner, CEO of IBM, read a line buried [...]

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