High Performance Innovation Teams

1 Oct 2006

Dateline: Saratoga, CA

Segment 1: High Performance Innovation Teams

– Create a Bold Outrageous Goal (BOG) - Identify an Enemy - Freedom from the corporate hairball- Assign the "right" resources- The right team mix

1 Strong Visionary – the sole of the innovation being creating
1 "Radar O’Reilly" – they can fix any issue by working the system
1 or 2 Mavericks – the mad scientist types
1 Parent – providing "adult" supervision
Handful of execution demons – they execute, execute, execute
Bridge/Translators – interface to the rest of the organization

Segment 2: Killer Question Of The Week

Segment 3: Closing Thought

"The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it"

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