Essentially leaders of innovation get paid for what isn’t. Yes, they get paid for what is not. As an executive, manager, team leader or entrepreneur, you don’t get paid for what happened in the past. You get paid for what is not - that which is not yet reality. So , as a leader of innovation,...

“Actions speak louder than words.” As started in a previous post (New View of Leadership) we are taking a look at the three main skills required for leaders of innovation.  Today, you walk your talk as you model innovation for others. A leader of innovation must be a model or example for...

True leaders enable others to innovate. Traditionally, leaders have been viewed as heroes who have all the answers. This perception is an obstacle to innovation. Under that model, employees attempt to innovate if they are told to innovate, when they receive their directions from the top. They feel they...

Being a leader isn’t easy. In addition to dealing with limited budgets, looming deadlines, and the rate of change happening in the outside world you also have to take notice of the rate of change and innovation within your own business. And this change is largely due to everybody’s belief...

Alan Baia and William DiPaolo founded Cogent Road here in San Diego - an innovative software company that provides enterprise-wide, web based software applications for the mortgage industry. Cogent Road has been named by Mortgage Technology magazine as one of the industry’s top service providers....

Marketing/management and Sales Expert, Mark Stevens is the bestselling author of “Your Marketing Sucks” and the CEO of MSCO, a global marketing firm. Stevens delivers more than 40 speeches annually and is a regularly featured media commentator, lending his insights and opinions on marketing on...

Shaun Kennedy Collaboration and Organizational Excellence are the keys this innovation leader uses to keep his team and his company “worldclass.” Being naturally curios is a competency that has served Shaun Kennedy well. Shaun is in charge of Research and Development for The Infineum Group of Companies,...

You want to play in the realm of difference making? Then you need to be willing to take a stand, not with a prediction, but rather with a declaration. It is your natural right. We all can do it. It means you will be taking a risk and going beyond what is familiar and comfortable. Allow me to make a...

Early tribes, on whatever continent, collaborated. They knew and accepted who was good at each task needed for the community to survive. Sounds like “specialization” you say? Well, there is a huge difference. Modern managers learned to draw organization charts which basically separate specialties...

There is a common misconception that innovation consists primarily of an inspirational event where the idea or concept is created followed by the perspiration necessary to implement the idea in the marketplace. In reality, bringing a successful new product or process to market requires a sequence of...