Jun 11, 2025
Use brief stories from the organization’s own history to show how the proposed change fits long-standing values, then keep refining those stories as you hear employees’ reactions (dropping or reshaping any tale that fails to spark follower self-visualization)....
Jun 11, 2025
Leadership concentrated in a few hands sparks status conflict and stifles new ideas. If you see that only one or two people attract most of the influence ties, purposefully rotate visible leadership tasks so that leadership density stays high but centralization stays...
Jun 11, 2025
When you frame targets around progress rather than error-avoidance, people shift into a promotion focus, feel intrinsically driven to create, and produce a higher volume of novel ideas. If you keep the emphasis on minimal goals (“make no mistakes, maintain the status...
Jul 23, 2024
GMBA Leadership Electives Yellow (Collaborate): MO512 – Bargaining and Influence Skills MO605 – Leading Inclusive, High-Performing Organizations MO617 – Developing and Managing High-Performing Teams MO620 – Leading a Good Life MO625 – Leadership Coaching Practicum MO...
Apr 25, 2024
Take your wellbeing into your own hands. You can sustain your own thriving by engaging in self-care, creating and maintaining high quality relationships, and building community inside and outside your organization.
Apr 25, 2024
When leading for innovation, it has been shown that placing a higher emphasis on exploitation and exploration is detrimental to innovative solutions. However, striking a balance between detail-orientation and outcome-orientation, without a polar emphasis on either,...
Apr 25, 2024
When orienting your organization for competition in the market, it is intuitive that radical innovation can be more profitable than incremental innovation. However, results also indicate that incompatible innovation (over compatible innovation) and...
Apr 25, 2024
In considering the design of a team, and the orientation of the organization as a whole, when forming a team with goals surrounding innovation it is important to select individual members carefully. Creative and conformist members of a team have been shown to produce...
Apr 25, 2024
Individuals who maintain both a high cultural breadth and high cultural embeddedness, otherwise known as culture brokers, are most likely to generate creative ideas that are both novel and useful to the organization.
Apr 25, 2024
In times of crisis and high anxiety, adopting a servant leader mentality, or prioritizing serving the greater good, increases job engagement and community impact.
Apr 25, 2024
Leaders who balance competing priorities (like driving results and leaving space for creativity) create more flexible and innovative teams. How can you look for the “yes, and…” in your teams when you’re under tension?
Apr 25, 2024
Need some new ideas? Empowering your teammates gives them more than just confidence, it also influences both their intrinsic motivation and creative process engagement making them more creative!
