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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
The Three Types of Leaders of Innovative Companies
An interview with Deborah Ancona and Kate Isaacs by Curt Nickisch
Command and control has lost its mojo. Nowadays, if you want to create an innovative organization, no one would tell you to build a rigid bureaucracy. But what should you build? How can you have creativity without chaos?
That’s a question that grabbed Deborah Ancona, professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and founder of the MIT Leadership Center, and Kate Isaacs, a research fellow at the center. They wanted a clearer picture of the ideal company, so they looked at two organizations: PARC, the R&D division of Xerox; and W. L. Gore & Associates, the materials science company best known for GORE-TEX. ...
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