OVERCOMING THE LEADER-AS-VILLAIN MENTALITY
Not all organizations may find it as easy to get their leadership involved in innovation. Often we don't envision our leaders as being innovators.
In recent years, Hewlett-Packard ran a series of print ads with the tag line “Invent.” In one of the most appealing of the series, the ad showed a garage that most people would not want anywhere near their property: old, wooden, and falling down. In front of the garage were two professorial-looking men, both with a mischievous, youthful gleam in their eyes. They were the original Hewlett and Packard, two of the greatest American icons of invention, standing in front of their now legendary garage. What was missing in the ad was the stereotypical three-piece-suited ...
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