Unleashing Creativity and Innovation Through Collaboration

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L e a d i n g C h a n g e T h r o u g h C o l
l a b o r a t i o n
Unleashing Creativity and Innovation Through
Collaboration
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L e a d i n g C h a n g e T h r o u g h C o l
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Pollyanna Pixton President, Evolutionary
Systems Director Institute of Collaborative
Leadership
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Agenda

• Individuals
• Collaboration
• Open Environment
• The 3 Cs
• Collaboration
• Leadership Tips
• Summary

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Unleash Creativity and Innovation
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Leadership Challenges

• The way you will thrive in this environment is
  by innovating innovating in technologies,
  innovating strategies, innovating business
  models.
• - IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano
  BusinessWeek,
  April 24, 2006

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Leadership Challenges

• Its no longer enough to respond to change
• today organizations must lead change
• or be left behind.
• - Pollyanna Pixton

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Project Management
The answers are in your organization.

• Dependency Management

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• Individuals The Ultimate Source Of Value

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Individuals

• The
• Right
• People

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The Right People

• Hire and promote
• First on the basis of integrity
• Second, motivation
• Third, capacity
• Fourth, understanding
• Fifth, knowledge
• Last and least, experience
• - Dee Hock, CEO Emeritus VISA International

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The Right People

• Authenticity
• Attitude
• Intelligence
• Talent

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The Right People

Passionate About
Best At
Organizational Fit
All team members operate within the intersection
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Get the right people on the bus in the right
seats.
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Get the wrong people off the bus.
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• Create An Environment Where Individuals Can
  Make A Difference

• Quality Management

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Unleashing Innovation

• Collaboration Model

Open Environment
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Open Environment

• What kind of environment do we need to
• Foster creativity and innovation?
• Encourage ideas?
• Create team ownership and commitment?
• Implement mission critical and differentiation
  ideas?
• What is an Open Environment?

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Open Environment

• Trust First!

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• Make sure everyone has what they need to
  succeed.

Great Environments
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• Authentic Motivation
• The 3 Cs
• Collaboration
• Choice
• Content
• - Alfie KohnPunished By Rewards

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Collaboration
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• How Do We Deliver?

None of us are as smart as all of us. - Japanese
Proverb
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Collaboration Model

• Convene People FromThe Entire Enterprise!
• Customers
• Marketing
• Sales
• Finance
• Technology
• Manufacturing
• Stakeholders

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Collaboration Model

• Foster
• Creativity
• Innovation
• via
• Collaboration Process

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Collaborative Leadership

• Step Aside,
• Let
• Them
• Work!

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Unleashing Innovation

• Collaboration Process

Collaboration Process
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Collaboration Process

• 1. Agree to
• Goals
• Objectives
• Purpose

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Collaboration Process

• 2. Brainstorm
• 3. Group
• 4. Prioritize
• Based on ???

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Collaboration Process

• 5. Individuals
• Volunteer
• For What
• And
• By When

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Choice
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Choice

• Let Individuals Choose How
• Let Teams Decide
• On success measurements
• How to hold each other accountable
• Self-evaluations and what to share with
  leadership

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Choice

• They tell you
• what needs
• to happen
• for success
• and results.

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• Create a place where people want to be not have
  to be.

Great Leadership
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Content
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Definitions
Create Meaningful Work
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What Kind of Leader LeadsCollaboration

• Focus, Communication, and Expectation Management

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• Remove Obstacles

Keep the FocusRemove Obstacles Leadership Tips
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Leadership

• Ricardo Semler, CEO of Semco, believes that all
  people desire to achieve excellence and that
  autocracy dampens peoples creativity and
  motivation.
• - The Seven-Day Weekend

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Leadership

• Influence Not Authority

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Leadership

• Keep
• the
• Purpose
• Alive

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Leadership

• Everyone
• Sees the
• Big Picture

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Leadership

• Fix
• Processes
• Not
• People

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Leadership

• No Such Thing
• As
• Constructive
• Criticism

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Leadership

• Feedback
• That Honors the Relationship

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Leadership

• Fail Early Fail Fast!

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Leadership

• Organizations change in the directionin which
  they inquire.
• Inquire.
• Question.
• Listen.

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Leadership

• Free Team to Question, Analyze and Investigate

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Leadership

• The Opposite of Control is Discovery

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People Need Leaders
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To Unleash Creativity and Innovation

• How Do We Deliver?

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• Planning, Tracking, and Correcting

• Create an Open Environment
• Bring the Right People Together
• Authentically Motivate The 3 Cs
• Stand Back and Deliver

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Leadership Tips

• Push Decisions to the Edge of the Organization
• Ask, Dont Tell
• Communicate Total Transparency
• Remove Boulders Carry Water
• Stand Back
• Guide Through Questions
• Take the Fun Out of Being Dysfunctional

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Summary

• Leadership Tipping Point
• When to lead?
• When to step back?
• Where is your Tipping Point?
• How can you step up and still be collaborative?

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• Your Questions?

Unleashing Innovation
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References

• Stand Back and Deliver, co-author, published by
  Addison Wesley, due out in November 2008
• The Seven-Day Weekend, Ricardo Semler
• Orbiting the Giant Hairball A Corporate Fool's
  Guide to Surviving with Grace, Gordon MacKenzie
• Organizing Genius, The Secrets of Creative
  Collaboration, Warren Bennis

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Contact

• Pollyanna Pixton
• www.evolutionarysystems.net
• www.accelinnova.com
• www.collaborativeleadership.com
• 1 . 801 . 209 . 0195
• p2_at_ppixton.com