Innovation and leadership

Social innovation:

For the benefits for a community or society.

Innovation is when something is implemented that is not like creativity.

Product:

Services:

Process: Is what happened during the production. (better, faster, cheaper)

Business model: Can be innovative because there is a lot of competition, and if you are original you can steal consumers from the competition.

Example iTunes, (don’t need to buy cd), Spotify free with ad ect…

The decline of some newspapers, now if you want you need to pay a subscribe.

Organisational innovation :

Incremental innovation: updates, colors

Radical Innovation : App, cloud, streaming

Leadership:

-Implies: Movement, solving problems, being creative, initiating…

Leadership vs management:

Leader set the direction and delegate

The manager have responsibility for is firm, objectives

What’s make a great leader:

Today everybody can become a leader, even if some have native advantages.

The ability of leader is a combination of skills that can by learn, a skill needs to be practise.

Leader is constantly learning and adapting to changes and embrace change as opportunity.

Creative mindset, thinking

Lecture 2

Innovation involve doing things differently in order to increase competitivity, profits …

“who move my cheese” movie

For example, cd, dvd, is now obsolete the firms who didon’t adapt lose the maket power.

Over analysis can be a trap, you will be stuck.

Is better to have a stupid idea because that can help others to have good ideas.

We are like flies, we try de same thing again and again until we stop everything, but we need to find alternative solution with reflexions with creativity.

Lecture 3

Need to be prepared for the change cause today the world is in exponential change. (caisse automatique, block chain)

Different author propose different types of leadership styles – there is no consensus on one list.

-Dictatorial

-Paternalistic

-Administrative

-laissez-faire

-democratic

-servant

-ect

Leadership theories:

-the great man theories

-trait theories: heristage

-contingency theories

-situational theories

-behavioural theories

-participative theories

-Management theories

-relationship theories

Are management and leadership the same thing?

Are manager leaders too?

Lecture 3

Leader: particular talent, creative thinking out of the box, …

The best managers allow different leader to emerge.

Do manager have to be great leader? leader skills help the manager to go up in the organigrams.

The best manager and leaders have regular contact with people.

People in power sometimes lose contact with people, but that is no healthy.

People are more loyal to leaders because they are link naturally because of trait of personality.

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