In spite of often assembling a top- notch team to work on executing business innovations, drives may fail. This is usually due to the product or function organizational structure not being rightly aligned. A new book has been launched talking about this situation. It is titled as Leading Transformation: How to Take Charge of Your Company’s Future, written by a professor at INSEAD, who specializes in corporate strategy, along with two others, who are from a business background. At time when any team is taking on some breakthrough initiative, there are three unique characteristics that determine the course of final outcome. One is the negative capability. This is about how well any company manages uncertainty. There are also chaos pilots. This is all about executing and leading in areas one isn’t fully comfortable in. The third key characteristic is to go for a combine of divergent thinking, influential communication and convergent action.

Source:https://hbr.org/2018/11/if-your-innovation-effort-isnt-working-look-at-whos-on-the-team?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=hbr&utm_medium=social

Uploaded Date:21 December 2019