I get a kick out of being around people who are smart in different ways than I am - who have different kinds of interests and ambitions and impacts. It's invigorating to be around this capacity and learn from these mindsets and skills.
Which means that I'm very...
You've learned core practices that build strong leadership, like setting the stage for your team's success, concentrating on what matters most, and leading by example.
Innovation leaders have the same kinds of practices, but they use them with a twist.
Innovation leaders set the stage for their teams by:
Blamestorming can be seductive. It's so pervasive that DIRECTV did a memorable spot on it. It's just easier, not to mention self protective, to blame others for what's going wrong.
Used judiciously, critical analysis reduces risks and improves ideas. Used maliciously (for example, showing how smart you are by tearing down other's ideas) criticism saps energy,...
