Innovation in a Reinvented World: 10 Essential Elements to Succeed in the New World of Business

Are You a Reinvention-Ready Leader?

The following checklist includes a number of reinvention readiness questions that as a leader you would want direct experience with in applying them to various situations. In this case, broad exposure would serve you better during an organizational reinvention than would expertise in only two or three areas.

Leadership Reinvention Readiness Checklist

• Understands the big picture: effectively manages their business as a strategic effort.
• Resourcefulness, creative problem solving: not stopped cold in their tracks when faced with big problems or too many issues at the same time; they figure out a way.
• Complex decision-making with finesse: leverages their networks and innovation tribes in helping them resolve challenging situations without trying to do it all.
• Follows the money: understands business finance models; savvy about making money, saving money, and growing wealth for the greater good.
• Transition lifecycles: Comfortable with the ebb and flow of transition and change; comfortable leading others or the organization outside the comfort zone.
• Relationship gurus: they collaborate, network, mentor, coach, influence, and persuade across the organization and beyond their four walls (real or virtual).
• Moves the needle: willing to adopt greater and more responsible leadership risk when a situation calls for it; creates a safety net of mentors, champions, and supportive colleagues that catch them if they fall.
• Adopts and leverages technologies: keeps ...