Innovation Leadership: Putting Ideas Into Action

Effective leaders know how to champion innovation. They not only come up with new ideas, but they transform those ideas into actions ‚- actions that create value for them, their organization, and their customers. Innovation, in practically all organizations, requires many people for the solution to succeed. Innovation is a team sport, and successful teams need leaders who know how to engage the team and bring out their best. Most organizations today recognize the value of great new ideas to introduce new products and services and engage customers in new ways to increase efficiency and profitability. Despite this, rather than acknowledge and nurture new ideas, people tend to squash new ideas early on. In order to lead innovation, you have to search for the value in all new ideas.