Thought Leadership from the Top Down

An HBS Professor studies and analyses the importance of innovation:

"The book identifies the five skill sets that separate innovation leaders from the middle-of-the-pack:

• Associating—drawing connections between questions, problems, or ideas from unrelated fields
• Questioning—posing queries that challenge common wisdom
• Observing—scrutinizing the behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors to identify new ways of doing things
• Networking—meeting people with different ideas and perspectives
• Experimenting—constructing interactive experiences and provoking unorthodox responses to see what insights emerge

"Top executives... must lead the innovation charge by understanding how innovation works, improving their own discovery skills, and sharpening their ability to foster the innovation of others. "

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