Saturday, February 13, 2010

Innovative Leaders

One of today’s reading presentations is about innovative leaders. There are 5 skills that make innovative leaders stand out: questioning, observing, associating, networking, and experimenting. Each skill on its own does not really say much about how much impact it has. Taken together the effect of all these skills is to separate innovative leaders from the rest.
For instance, only questioning things likes “what-if” or “why not” is not going to take the leaders anywhere unless they start investigating further through observation. After observation, they start experimenting by associating what they have lean and incorporating it with what they already know through collaboration and networking. I am sure this process is not as easy as it sounds otherwise there would be a surplus of innovative leaders. Knowing how many challenges the innovative leader has to face, I am willing to put myself on trial.

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