Strategy #7 in Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration.
Great leaders know that great opportunities in the 2020’s come from their ability to accelerate and align their internal idea factory to the big global idea machine that surrounds them. They know that the essence of global R&D (research and development), the creation of new products and services, and the generation of new sources of revenue comes from the ability to tap into the big global knowledge network that surrounds us today. Without knowledge creativity, companies wither and die. But with an accelerated idea machine, they thrive and prosper! And so with that concept, point #7 of my Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration series is – Accelerate Your Ideas! If you check my inspirational post from this morning, you’ll find a story of how I was suggesting this very concept to a big global firm for which I worked, way back in 1984. Well, that didn’t happen! But what we do know is that globally, science, discovery, knowledge and opportunity is being…