Chapter 13

Proven Principles of Innovation

An inventor lives asking the question, “What’s missing in this picture?” and then answers it by inventing the missing piece that makes the picture whole.

—Michael E. Gerber, Awakening the Entrepreneur Within

As people got more comfortable making decisions and seeing those decisions being implemented we began seeing much more creativity. That, of course, is the key for innovation and sustainability of any operation.

We have explored leadership behaviors required for achieving success in a diverse culture. In this section, we will discuss innovation in its purest form. Until now, the examples convey incremental innovation resulting from improvement of an existing product or service. Innovation in its ...

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