- Leading Innovative Organizations -
with Bob Eckert
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Bob Eckert and I discuss what specific requirements fall to leaders of innovative organizations. This includes both what leaders need to do to build effective innovation organizations and what traits leaders of innovative organizations exhibit. We discuss leader comportment, leader role in building systems and culture, and necessary behaviors around collaboration and accountability.
Bob Eckert is CEO at New & Improved. He focuses on helping organizations harness and develop the innovative brain power of their people to deliver new and improved results.
Who should listen? Those who:
- are driving corporate and business unit innovation initiatives.
- manage and motivate their business unit's innovation resources.
- seek to be champions of innovation within their organizations
Show Notes:
- Executive Summary
- Slides presented during interview
- Growth Arc’s Executive Breakthrough Coaching program mentioned in the episode
Bob Eckert
Guest Speaker
CEO, New & Improved LLC
Bob Eckert is CEO at New & Improved. He focuses on helping organizations harness and develop the innovative brain power of their people to deliver new and improved results.
Fast Company calls him an “Innovation thought leader” and he has been quoted in publications such as Forbes and Inc.com. He has written extensively about innovation leadership. The author of numerous articles and books, his two most popular are Demystifying Innovation Culture Efforts and More Lightning, Less Thunder: How to Energize Innovation Teams.
Organizations that have benefited from his organizational and leadership development work include: General Electric, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Mercedes-Benz, TE Connectivity, Kimberly Clark, and many others.