Leadership and Innovation: Relating to Circumstances and Change

LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION: RELATING TO CIRCUMSTANCES AND CHANGE

Leadership always has some focus on bringing about a better future. Leaders are necessarly innovators.

Relationship to circumstance and change

Innovation is always related to some practical in the world value

Resistance- Opposition to circumstance

Coping- Positive reaction to circumstances

Responding- Owning the circumstances

Choosing- Accepting the circumstances

Bringing forth- Creating the circumstances

Mastery-Creating the context for change

Resistance can be overt or covert.

All forms of resistance are counter-innovative and thwart human intentionality to create change.

Leadership is exercised through opposition to the circumstance.

Problem-solving and designing ways to overcome barriers.

Coping can drive innovation, but only as a reaction to the circumstances.

Leadership is oriented toward reasonable expectations and interpretations of what is possible and not possible.

To respond means to freely choose action.

Leaders organize their actions based on other considerations.

Innovation is natural and effortless.

Leadership begins to become an increasungly creative process.

Truly creative people.

Leaders are considered visionaries and charismatic.

To invent entirely new fields of inquiry.

Leaders are always beginners, learning and creating in each moment.