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Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation

Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation
Leslie Goldman

"This program has helped me inspire my team to think and act with fresh energy and vision."

Leslie Goldman
Vice President, Global Cause Partnerships, UNICEF USA, U.S.
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Leslie Goldman

"This program has helped me inspire my team to think and act with fresh energy and vision."

Leslie Goldman
Vice President, Global Cause Partnerships, UNICEF USA, U.S.
Read Her Story
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What You Will Learn

Immersing yourself in the process of exploration, experimentation, failure, and examination, you will discover new ways to surface and develop ideas, discuss them openly, evolve them, and set the stage for ongoing innovation. As you dig into the characteristics of innovative organizations, you will learn what it takes to lead the changes that transform promising ideas into reality.

Balancing Collaboration and Personal Reflection

While this innovation program emphasizes collaboration, you also will engage in guided self-reflection and a unique approach to peer-to-peer collaboration that is designed to boost your creativity and expand your innovation mindset.

Your Innovation Challenge

During the program, you will work with a team of peers, known as a "brain trust," to spark new thinking on innovation and help you evolve your ideas. You'll have the opportunity to focus on an innovation leadership challenge facing your organization, share your approach with your brain trust, and iterate your solutions with their help.

Participants should expect to spend at least 9-12 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.

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What You Will Learn

Immersing yourself in the process of exploration, experimentation, failure, and examination, you will discover new ways to surface and develop ideas, discuss them openly, evolve them, and set the stage for ongoing innovation. As you dig into the characteristics of innovative organizations, you will learn what it takes to lead the changes that transform promising ideas into reality.

Balancing Collaboration and Personal Reflection

While this innovation program emphasizes collaboration, you also will engage in guided self-reflection and a unique approach to peer-to-peer collaboration that is designed to boost your creativity and expand your innovation mindset.

Your Innovation Challenge

During the program, you will work with a team of peers, known as a "brain trust," to spark new thinking on innovation and help you evolve your ideas. You'll have the opportunity to focus on an innovation leadership challenge facing your organization, share your approach with your brain trust, and iterate your solutions with their help.

Participants should expect to spend at least 9-12 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.

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Understanding the realities of innovationUnderstanding the realities of innovation
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  • Anaylzing the differences between execution, innovation, and change
  • Considering innovation broadly, not limited to products and services
  • Exploring how innovation can become a mandate for everyone in every function
  • Identifying common practices that can stifle collaboration and innovation
  • Understanding what contextual intelligence is and how to apply it to thrive in different environments
Developing a leadership approach that fosters innovationDeveloping a leadership approach that fosters innovation
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  • Interpreting the responsibility for driving innovation
  • Framing the leader's role as social architect
  • Playing the role of change agent and advocating for change at different levels of your organization
  • Embracing the often-messy process of collaborative innovation
  • Balancing the inherent tensions and paradoxes of leading innovation
  • Fulfilling three key leadership imperatives—managing yourself, your team, and your network—in ways that facilitate innovation
Instilling habits that can unleash creative potential throughout your organizationInstilling habits that can unleash creative potential throughout your organization
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  • Creating more opportunities for creative collaboration
  • Recognizing how diversity expands the range of possibilities and elicits more and better ideas
  • Fostering trust and a shared sense of purpose and values
  • Understanding and managing creative abrasion, creative agility, and creative resolution
  • Institutionalizing experimentation, risk-taking, and the tolerance for failure
Creating structures that support innovation in your organizationCreating structures that support innovation in your organization
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  • Organizing spaces that support collaborative problem solving
  • Introducing new, innovation-specific rules of engagement
  • Developing an effective marketplace of new ideas
  • Developing processes to support the generation of breakthrough innovations while simultaneously maintaining existing business operations
  • Identifying and overcoming obstacles to collaboration and innovation
  • Evolving decision-making processes to align with the nature of innovation
Transforming innovative ideas into realityTransforming innovative ideas into reality
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  • Analyzing and managing the implications and trade-offs of promising new ideas
  • Leading the changes needed to experiment with an innovative solution
  • Dealing with the obstacles to change
  • Working with different constituencies in your organization to ensure successful implementation

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Understanding the realities of innovation

  • Anaylzing the differences between execution, innovation, and change
  • Considering innovation broadly, not limited to products and services
  • Exploring how innovation can become a mandate for everyone in every function
  • Identifying common practices that can stifle collaboration and innovation
  • Understanding what contextual intelligence is and how to apply it to thrive in different environments

Developing a leadership approach that fosters innovation

  • Interpreting the responsibility for driving innovation
  • Framing the leader's role as social architect
  • Playing the role of change agent and advocating for change at different levels of your organization
  • Embracing the often-messy process of collaborative innovation
  • Balancing the inherent tensions and paradoxes of leading innovation
  • Fulfilling three key leadership imperatives—managing yourself, your team, and your network—in ways that facilitate innovation

Instilling habits that can unleash creative potential throughout your organization

  • Creating more opportunities for creative collaboration
  • Recognizing how diversity expands the range of possibilities and elicits more and better ideas
  • Fostering trust and a shared sense of purpose and values
  • Understanding and managing creative abrasion, creative agility, and creative resolution
  • Institutionalizing experimentation, risk-taking, and the tolerance for failure

Creating structures that support innovation in your organization

  • Organizing spaces that support collaborative problem solving
  • Introducing new, innovation-specific rules of engagement
  • Developing an effective marketplace of new ideas
  • Developing processes to support the generation of breakthrough innovations while simultaneously maintaining existing business operations
  • Identifying and overcoming obstacles to collaboration and innovation
  • Evolving decision-making processes to align with the nature of innovation

Transforming innovative ideas into reality

  • Analyzing and managing the implications and trade-offs of promising new ideas
  • Leading the changes needed to experiment with an innovative solution
  • Dealing with the obstacles to change
  • Working with different constituencies in your organization to ensure successful implementation
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Leslie Goldman

"This program has helped me inspire my team to think and act with fresh energy and vision."

Leslie Goldman
Vice President, Global Cause Partnerships, UNICEF USA, U.S.
Read Her Story
Apply
Download Brochure
Program Finder
Need Help? Contact Us:
Program Advising team
Email: executive_education@hbs.edu
Leslie Goldman

"This program has helped me inspire my team to think and act with fresh energy and vision."

Leslie Goldman
Vice President, Global Cause Partnerships, UNICEF USA, U.S.
Read Her Story
Need Help? Contact Us:
Program Advising team
Email: executive_education@hbs.edu
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