The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise

9. Leadership

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”

—Joseph Campbell in The Power of Myth

Overview

With this book, you have the key concepts, learnings, decision tools, case studies, and even a playbook to follow. However, even with these tools, many leaders will be too risk averse to make the difficult choices for reasons already discussed. Or they will delay until externalities demand action, possibly after it is already too late. The transformational change described requires genuine vision and courage. Make no mistake, this will test leadership and organizations to their limits, but the near and long-term gains could be extraordinary.

This, the final chapter, is written for the CEOs, leaders, ...