Summary
Contents
Leadership Games presents twenty-five practical, inexpensive experimental activities designed to be used in various leadership training and development programmes.This book centers on those areas of primary concern to todays managers, team leadership, risking innovation, fostering collaboration, managing conflict, and using diversity. The author has extensive experience both in the academic and consulting word (including being a past President of the Outward Bound program in Rockland, Maine).
Exercises on Risking Innovation
Exercises on Risking Innovation
- Spacejam: When Faced with Increasing Resource Constraints, Innovate! 31
- Magic Steps: Get from One Place to Another Through Innovative Thinking and Action. 34
- Fishbowl Consultant: Share Responsibility for Taking Initiative and Support others in Doing the Same. 39
- Feedback Theater: Cultivate imagination and confront the challenges of creative communication. 43
- Innovation Maze: Link Leadership to Followership and Design Support Systems for Risk Takers. 49
- Towering Vision: Design, Express, and Sell Creative Vision. 56
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Introduction
Risking innovation, in two words, frames one of the most daunting challenges confronting contemporary organizational leaders. Interpreted together, the words speak to a need for marked self-consciousness and exceptional effort, essential ingredients for overcoming mental inertia within organizations. Organizational inertia grows under the ...
