Secret skills you need to be a great corporate innovation leader…
🤹♀️Juggling – constantly managing the tension between the main business that pays your wages and the new idea that you are trying to protect
💰Thieving – stealing ideas from competitors and making them better, stealing resources from everyone in the main business includes people and post it notes
📕Story Telling – the ability to weave a beautiful and compelling narrative to senior stakeholders, your customers and your team getting them all to buy into the dream
👷♀️Building – new stuff, high performing teams and sometimes bridges
🪄Magic – essential for making those prototypes look real when they are not and for stretching those budgets
🕵️♂️ Detection – a relentless curiosity for seeking the truth, understanding your customers, and working out what they want even when they lie to you
🏂Risk Taking – always knowing where the boundary is and when you can step over it and when you just can’t