Principle #8 in Jim Carroll’s Mastering Innovation sequence.
“World class innovators focus on skills partnerships as a key success factor!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Futurist Jim Carroll is running his Daily Inspiration series for March 11/18 on the theme of “What is it that World Class Innovators Do That Others Don’t Do?” The leadership ideas are based on an original keynote he gave early in 2009 after a client asked him to identify these issues. He developed this carefully curated list based on 15 years of observations of how his global clients responded to fast-paced change. Organizations used to hire all the people they needed to do all the things that needed to be done. In a world of massive knowledge acceleration and specialization, this no longer makes sense - and indeed, is impossible. World-class innovators, as a result, pursue a strategy in which their ability to quickly form external knowledge partners will define their success going forward. What I saw twenty years ago when compiling my list of world-class innovators was a group of companies who realized this reality - and…