Mobilizing Innovation and Change
A key element of leadership is the ability to envision future opportunities and challenges and bring about needed changes to your company or to your team.
Creating a vision is the ability to conceptualize the future of the company and provide innovative paths for the company to follow.
- Developing a Vision for a Community or an Organization (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
- Mission Statements and Vision Statements (MindTools)
- Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation (HBS Working Knowledge)
Change Management is the ability to adapt to situations of change, as well as the ability to initiate change and provide novel solutions to problems.
- Change Starts from the Top (U.S. Small Business Administration)
- How to Change (Learning Center Library)
- Managing Change (PDF) (University of Virginia)
- 10 Steps for Implementing Change (PDF) (University of Virginia)
- Leading Change by Using Continuous Quality Improvement (George Mason University)
- Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change (HBS Working Knowledge)
Problem solving includes identifying the problem, generating an alternative solution and implementing that solution.
- The Journal of Problem Solving (Purdue University)
- Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis ( HBS Working Knowledge )
- 7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm ( HBS Working Knowledge )
- Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis ( HBS Working Knowledge )
