I love reading articles about innovation. And every now and then you read one that is very interesting. "Innovation in Turbulent Times" by Rigby, Gruver, Allen (in HBR, June 2009) is one of them. This article takes fashion companies as an example for continuous, year-by-year innovation. And how successful fashion companies are usually led by two people: a left-brainer and a right-brainer. "If you don't have highly creative people in positions of real authority, you won't get innovation. Most companies in other industries ignore this lesson." They extend this to show that successful non-fashion companies have the same kind of leadership. And this kind of leadership is usually also characterized by a long-term relationship. I think this concept can also be extended to teams and projects as well. More often than not, people are good at one or the other: thinking up great concepts or ideas, or, making them. In teams and projects we can learn from this as
Hi Samuel, this is not related to this post - I would like to use an excerpt of a post you made for a paper I am writing about Intranet Futures for the IBF. The quote is from a reply you made on Jeremiah Owyang post about Intranets back in Jan 2008. Please let me know if any concerns about using this for the paper, with your name and blog site attributed. Thanks very much - Abigail Lewis-Bowen, Intranet Benchmarking Forum abigail@ibforum.com
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