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LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION LESSON 0 - COURSE INTRODUCTION We can distinguish two cases when talking about innovation: 1. Innovation is my only job: - skills, resources (time, space) - context (only innovation) - exogenous (I’m not the user) -> I’m a problem solver (how): give me a challenge 2. Innovation is not my only job: - no skills, no resources - ambidexterity - endogenous (I’m the user) -> I search for meaning (why): help me to shape the challenge, help to bring others onboard We will focus on the second case. The main challenge is to make people adopt the innovation and change their behaviour. We want to change the meaning of a product/service/process in the mind of customers. Ted Talk by Yuval Harari (what explains the rise of humans) Humans control the world because they are only animals that can cooperate flexibly in large numbers. All things humans have done are based on large-scale operation. Humans use their language not only to describe reality, but also to create fictional stories. As long as everybody believes in the same story, everybody obeys the same rules. Money is not an objective reality, it is the most successful story ever invented and told by humans because it is the only story that everybody believes. Ted Talk by Drew Dudley (everyday leadership) It is the final impact of what you do that makes you a leader. Being a leader doesn’t mean that you control people, but that you inspire and influence people. You have an impact on people’s lives even if you don’t want and even if you don’t try. The starting point of leadership is self-leadership. The meaning of something changes depending on who interprets it. In this course we will try to understand why we think what we think. We live in an ambiguous world, where ambiguity means being open to more…