Leadership Live: Innovation: How to Maintain Culture in a Remote Enterprise
Ideas are expensive, but innovation is invaluable. You know your organization needs to constantly innovate to succeed. Similarly, your own ability to innovate can propel your career. So how do you invest your organization's resources and your career capital in the right ideas—the ones that become breakthrough innovations—while avoiding the "black holes" that only suck up your time and resources? That’s exactly what you’ll learn in this session. Move past mere survival—often marked by working harder just to keep up—and move your organization and career to thrive through smart, actionable innovation.
According to a 2015 MindMatters survey2:
- 77% of workers believe that their efforts are not sufficiently appreciated or managed within their organizations.
- 81% said their firms do not have the resources needed to pursue the innovations and new ideas capable of keeping their companies ahead in the competitive global marketplace.
Learn how you can help move your organization out of survival mode. Specifically, you'll leave this session ready to:
- Assess ideas for their future potential.
- Earn the buy-in of the team members and leaders around you.
- Implement new ideas so they actually become real innovations.
- Protect your intellectual property.
"There are only two things in a business that make money: innovation and marketing. Every else is just cost." — Peter Drucker
