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Ability to lead innovation has become an important quality for leadership to have. The ability to lead requires a holistic understanding of innovation and the roles of the full range of stakeholders. This includes the correct role leadership itself should play for each innovation project.
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While innovation has become crucial in today's environments, leadership plays a crucial role in creating an environment in which individuals and teams can unlock their innovative capacity. The many failed innovation projects are a result of adherence to a linear approach to problem solving. Innovation excellence requires a leadership that has a systemic understanding of the organisation and a passion for stakeholder management in a systemic context .
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This page is a summary of: When Innovation and Creativity Are a Costly and Futile Endeavor, Journal of Leadership Studies, December 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/jls.21408.
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