Leadership and Innovation: Relating toCircumstances and Change

Distinguishing Innovation
1. have had ‘big ideas’
2. intentionally ‘bringing into existence’
3. allows human beings to accomplish something they were not able to accomplish previously
Relationship to Circumstance and Change
1. opens or closes possibilities and opportunities for innovating
2. the way we relate to our circumstances becomes the foundation for our being leaders
Resistance
1. Opposition to circumstance
  1. We resist to change
  2. ‘not being as it should be’.
Coping
1. Positive reaction to circumstances
  1. positive alternative to resistance
  2. successful coping solutions will often thwart and even undermine attempts at further innovations.
  3. Leadership is often facilitative and oriented toward reasonable expectations and interpretations
Responding
1. Owning the circumstances
  1. ‘the ability to respond’
  2. have some intention or commitment
  3. are bringing something new into existence
Choosing
1. Accepting the circumstances
  1. step beyond owning and responding freely to circumstances
  2. innovation is natural and effortless, even obvious.
  3. leadership begins to become an increasingly creative process.
Brigning Forth
1. Creating the circumstances
  1. circumstance and have formulated what seem to be genuinely original ideas or solutions.
  2. unpredictable
  3. require challenging or changing some underlying belief or assumption
  4. appear obvious after the fact.
Mastery
1. Creating the Context for Change
  1. distinguish the rare ability that a few people have demonstrated to invent entirely new fields of inquiry.
  2. be responsible for creating the background or space within which the circumstances appear.
  3. ‘who one is being’ in a situation and in relationship to the world.

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