CHAPTER 12
ATTRACTING, DEVELOPING AND KEEPING INNOVATION LEADERS
Those leadership competencies that you see developing have to be coached, corrected, and you need to give people with the right talent and the right profile step-by-step challenges that fit those profiles, or lead those profiles to develop. People have a lot of latent capabilities. It is a matter of challenging them in those capabilities to develop them.1
Ad Huijser, former CEO of Philips Research
Having read all the chapters of this book so far, you may be tempted to compare the innovation leadership environment that they describe with the realities in your company. You can probably point to a number of talented and motivated individuals who make up your current and potential ...