17 07, 2024

Importance of psychological safety and intellectual honesty for high performing innovation teams

2024-07-17T12:37:06-07:00

Readers of this column know I frequently encourage managers, above all else, to build trust among their teams and with their performance management systems in order to achieve high performance and innovation. (As one of my readers told me, “You write about trust all the time.”) Other team traits are also critically important, such [...]

Importance of psychological safety and intellectual honesty for high performing innovation teams2024-07-17T12:37:06-07:00
22 04, 2024

Drive shareholder returns by developing the right behaviors among leaders

2024-04-22T12:47:44-07:00

By Victor Assad, Managing Partner. New research from McKinsey and Company suggests that the secret to developing effective leaders is to encourage four types of behaviors. Earlier research by McKinsey and other organizations has consistently shown that good leadership is a critical part of organizational health, which is an important driver of shareholder returns. [...]

Drive shareholder returns by developing the right behaviors among leaders2024-04-22T12:47:44-07:00
19 09, 2023

Innovation teams need cognitive diversity

2023-09-19T15:59:51-07:00

By Victor Assad We have long advocated the importance of cognitive diversity for successful innovation. Successful innovation teams have much higher cognitive diversity. The trick is identifying cognitive diversity among people for more successful teams. Recent articles document the success of cognitive diversity over demographic diversity with innovation teams.  We have been particularly guided [...]

Innovation teams need cognitive diversity2023-09-19T15:59:51-07:00
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