How to Become a Collaborative Leader

by Pollyanna Pixton

There has been discussion in business communities about how to "manage" innovation. I always laugh. You can't manage innovation; you can only support an environment that encourages it. If you create an open environment in which people feel free to present, question, and discuss ideas; get the right people in the room; let them look at interesting problems; and if you don't muck about as they work (in other words, stand back), then -- if you are lucky -- innovation will happen.

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How to Become a Collaborative Leader1 July 2007