Leadership Skills
The Power of a Clear Leadership Narrative
To find your personal leadership narrative, figure out and share what great leadership means to you.
Creativity
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Collaboration
The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control
Three strategies for setting the stage for innovation in your organization.
Innovation Strategy
Lessons From the Maker Movement
Businesses can innovate and thrive by nurturing a “creator” mindset.
Disruption
Why Entrepreneurs Should Care Less About Disrupting and More About Creating
Featured excerpt from WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us by Tim O’Reilly.
Developing Strategy
Which Rules Are Worth Breaking?
Disrupting the status quo is often valuable, but taken too far, it can lead to ethical crises.
Moving Beyond the Silicon Valley State of Mind
Featured excerpt from Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm.
Disruption
12 Essential Innovation Insights
We searched the MIT SMR archives to find 12 essential innovation insights.
Culture
Inspiring Employee Creativity
In a thought-powered world, leaders must look beyond planning and execution and inspire ingenuity.
Innovation Strategy
Unleashing Creativity With Digital Technology
Digital technology makes the creative process faster — and cheaper. And that’s great for business.
Innovation Strategy
How to Succeed with Radical Innovation
Highly capable firms are often reluctant to take risks, but they have much to gain if they try to innovate.
Collaboration
Learning the Art of Business Improvisation
There are positive correlations between improvisation in product development and team performance.
Innovation Strategy
Real Innovators Don’t Fear Failure
One way to learn, argue Paul J.H. Schoemaker (Wharton School) and Steven Krupp (DSI), is to “try to fail fast, often and cheaply in search of innovation.”
Collaboration
Teamwork Plus Creativity Equals Engagement
Employees can be inspired to perform better if their creativity is challenged through teamwork.
Collaboration
Bringing Fun and Creativity to Work
Team-based contests that draw on creativity and collaboration skills can build motivation in employees.
Innovation Strategy
The Discipline of Creativity
Managers can’t afford to rely on haphazard, hit-or-miss approaches to idea generation.
Stanford’s Tina Seelig on Creativity: “Everything You See is Ripe for Innovation”
“Mastering the ability to reframe problems is an important tool for increasing your imagination” writes Stanford’s Tina Seelig.
Innovation Strategy
Is There a Tweaker Driving Innovation On Your Team?
Innovation often comes from tweakers who take existing ideas and turn them into something better.