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Collaborate to Innovate: Five Ways

Wed, 2008-03-12 12:12 — Susan DeGenring

Research shows that innovation is virtually impossible without collaboration. Susan DeGenring identifies five qualities of innovation, and maps the collaborative behaviors that enable them.

Research shows that innovation is virtually impossible without collaboration.

Interaction Associates' former Senior Consultant Susan DeGenring identifies five qualities of innovation, and maps the collaborative behaviors that enable them.

Adaptive leadership: risky business?

Sat, 2007-04-07 18:30 — Susan DeGenring

The same old leadership approaches and the existing leadership toolkit won't work to solve the complex problems of today's business environment. Susan DeGenring looks at what is required to lead in turbulent times.

The question is no longer, "How to manage change?" The question now is, "How to lead adaptive change?" We live in extraordinary times in the arc of our social, political and economic development. Miraculous products and events hit the news every week, it seems.

Worth 1,000 words? Reactions to an image of a woman leader

Sat, 2007-01-27 19:08 — Susan DeGenring

Susan DeGenring examines attitudes about Women Leaders through a lens called "levels of reflection."

Recently, I was pondering the hullabaloo over this photo of Nancy Pelosi wielding the Speaker's gavel while surrounded by children.

A colleague had mentioned that she'd heard this mélange of reactions to the photo:

"It made me tear up. It really touched me. It didn't feel 'engineered' or cynical, it seemed spontaneous and I believe it was."