The innovative thinker faces unique challenges. The innovative leader faces even more.
Organizational leaders can be thought of as living in two worlds, simultaneously. There is the world of immediate demands, performance requirements and measures — a world where they need to do this thing by this time at this cost to cause this result. Immediate demands and needs are not negotiable and leave little room for error. At the same time, leaders are called (or, better yet, call themselves) to consider how things might be better. They want to do this thing differently at whatever time at unpredictable cost to see if there happens to be a good result. That is, they want to innovate and they want their organizational culture to be innovative. They want to embrace risk.
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