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Chapter 4
Leadership and Innovation
Characteristics
Career Innovation
Creating a customer oriented, career focus area that capitalizes on one's capabilities,
interests, resources, and knowledge to meet current or emerging needs in a given area of
opportunity
.
Chapter Outline
Characteristics of Innovators
64
Patience and Resilience
83
Mythbusters®
on Leadership
68
Strong Team Building -
Build Your Own Team
Characteristics of Leadership
70
83
Vision
70
Determination and Optimism
84
Strength of Character
72
Power Tips for Women Leaders
85
Belief in the Idea,
Organization, or Mission
The Transformational
Innovation Leader
73
87
Ability to Empower Others
74
Beyond Transformational
Innovation Leadership
Communication Skills
76
88
Ability to Stand Up for
Yourself
Leadership Assessment Test
88
77
Summary
88
Ability to Make Tough
Decisions
Chapter Resources
91
78
Willingness to Think Outside
the Box
82
As I was watching a recent commercial from a major oil and gas industry com-
pany, I recognized how artfully the marketing effort captured the concept of
innovation. In this commercial a woman is driving down the street and observes
a group of children playing on a hot summer day. The children are filling a bal-
loon with water while playing. She observes and “associates” this seemingly
unrelated experience to her technical need - initiating the possible innovative
application. The scenes artfully move through the development steps to the
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