A survey published Accenture shows that the biggest challenges facing businesses who need to innovate is not just releasing creativity, it is taking the ideas generated by the creative spirit and nurturing them until it can be successfully implemented.
This is not surprising when you think that the left-brain logic that dominates most leaders thinking in today's organisations has difficulty comprehending creativity and nurturing which required more right brain understanding.
We need to develop balanced leaders to meet todays challenges.
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A recent HBR article, Gary Hamel suggests that to stay successful it is not enough for companies just to keep thinking up new ideas that competitors quickly copy, they need serial management innovation.
"The keys to serial management innovation? Tackle a big problem--as General Motors did by inventing the divisional structure to bring order to its sprawling family of companies. Search for radical management principles--as Visa's founders did when they envisioned self-organization--and created the first non-stock, for-profit membership enterprise. Challenge conventional management beliefs, which Toyota did by deciding that frontline employees--not top executives--make the best process innovators."
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"Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators, excellent communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were unbusinesslike are precisely the qualities that business needs most to tap human potential." Mary Cunningham Agee
The new gender gap puts women in front of men, at least in school. So says Gary Becker, the Nobel Prize Winning economist, in a post on
the blog he shares with Richard Posner. Ultimately, says Becker:
Whatever the explanation for the remarkable shift in college attendance rates of men and women during the past 40 years, this shift is likely to have major implications for future changes in the gender gap in average earnings, the fraction of heads of business that are women, and other measures of gender differences in achievement.
Here are four other reasons why the glass ceiling is breaking:
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