Innovation Capital

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Who You Are

(and What You Can Do to Improve)

Not surprisingly, innovation capital begins with your innovation skills, or your innovation-specific human capital. Surprisingly, the skills that go into building innovation capital are more specific and actionable than you might imagine. It isn’t nearly enough to just be creative or think big if you want to be a leader of innovation.

In our research on the world’s most innovative leaders, we asked them what personal skills have been most important both to their success as innovative leaders and to their ability to win support for their ideas. We also talked to people who worked with these leaders and asked what skills they thought were most important to their leaders’ success. We wanted to know ...