Management – Please discuss this from a Management perspective.
Locate a current article about influence, power, or leadership in any one of the following
sources:
Forbes, Fast Company, Wired, Business Week, or The Economist.
Then, prepare a review of the article providing a brief, but detailed, summary of the situation and
how the participants related to each other. Also, What could have been done to achieve a more
positive outcome or prevent a negative outcome?
Everything is to be 100% in your own words. It must all be your own ideas.
Needed: Innovators + lmplemenlers
In our experience, innovation teams feel a hostility toward hostilities-a partnership between a dedicated team and
the people responsible for day-today operations. . . . The what we call the performance engine, the unit responsible
rich vocabulary of disdain includes bureaucratic, robotic, for sustaining excellence in ongoing operations. Granted,
rigid, ossified, staid, dull, decaying, controlling, patron- such an arrangement seems, at first glance, improbable.
izing . . . and just plain old. Such animosity explains But to give up on it is to give up on innovation itself.
why most executives believe that any significant innova-
tion initiative requires a team that is separate and isolated For Discussion: Why does the diversity of employees’
from the rest of the company. . . . educational backgrounds, technical or professional
It is flat wrong. Isolation may neutralize infighting, but fields, and iob specializations inevitably lead to conflict
it also neuters innovation. in organizations? How can management get these
The reality is that an innovation initiative must be diverse employees to team up, engage in cooperative
executed by a partnership that somehow bridges the conflict, and collaborate effectively?
