Global Lehigh Strategic Initiatives (without descriptions)
Poynter Leadership Academy October 2015
1. HARD HEADS, SOFT HANDS:
LEADER AS ENTREPRENEUR
• Bill Mitchell, Poynter affiliate
• Leadership Academy October 2015
• Bmitch (at) gmail dot com
• 727-641-9407
3. RODNEY ON HIS JOB AS
CHIEF INNOVATION OFFICER :
• “I’m the guy people come to when
they have an idea and they don’t
know how to do it.
• “Usually, my first response is, ‘I don’t
know. Let’s figure it out.”
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9. • “News organizations today are
experiencing a continuing crisis of value
destruction… They must find ways to
create new value to replace that which is
being destroyed. If they do not, they risk
their demise.”
-- Economist Robert Picard, 2006
10. ThiThis
• “(This) is what real
revolutions are like. The old
stuff gets broken faster
than the new stuff gets put
in its place.”
-- NYU Prof. Clay Shirky, in a
2009 blog post, “Newspapers
and Thinking the
Unthinkable”
14. MY QUESTION TO EACH OF YOU:
• What is your area of “intense focus?”
• What opportunities does it provide for
innovation?
15. ASSIGNMENT AT YOUR TABLES:
• Five minutes: Think, write about what might
be your area of “intense focus”
• Five minutes: Pair up with someone for a
conversation about your focus
• Five minutes: Discuss your partner’s focus
16. ELEMENTS OF INTENSE FOCUS:
• A developing or under-reported situation or
circumstance
• Sufficiently high stakes to matter
• Relevant to a big enough audience
24. HOW IS A “TRACKER” INNOVATIVE?
• Addresses an “inarticulated need”
• Saves the user time
• Finds stuff the user never would
• Leverages technical capacity (links!)
• Classic example of old wine in new skin
• Can become essential to doing your job
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27. INTRAPRENEURIAL VENTURE
• All the elements of an innovation plus:
• Generates significant revenue
• Makes sense as its own cost center
29. ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURE
• Same as intrapreneurial except:
• Makes more sense as a stand-alone and/or:
•You’ve just been laid off, bought out or:
•Leadership Academy has persuaded
you to become your own damn boss!
33. HOW YOUR MYERS-BRIGGS
PERSONALITY PREFERENCES MIGHT
INFLUENCE YOUR INNOVATION STYLE
• ENFP: Possibility-focused, open,
enthusiastic (me)
• ISTJ: Quietly systematic, factual, logical,
decisive (my boss)
34. STYLES OF LEADING INNOVATION
• Soft head, hard hands
• Hard head, hard hands
• Soft head, soft hands
• Hard head, soft hands
35. STYLES OF LEADING INNOVATION
• Soft head, hard hands
• Hard head, hard hands
• Soft head, soft hands
• Hard head, soft hands
36. HARD HEADS, SOFT HANDS:
LEADER AS ENTREPRENEUR
• Bill Mitchell, Poynter affiliate
• Leadership Academy October 2015
• Bmitch (at) gmail dot com
• 727-641-9407