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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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Why is it important?
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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Successful innovation leadership requires an understanding of the total process from idea to product; whether a tangible product or a service. An understanding of the full range of stakeholders and their roles is essential and this includes what the role of leadership in every innovation project should be
Grace Mugadza
Da Vinci Institute
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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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