Kelley Stokes Innovation for MBA Leadership Shift

Kelley Stokes Innovation for MBA Leadership Shift

I plan to use Braden Kelly’s dynamite new book, Stoking your Innovation Bonfire to move MBA thinking into brain based leadership approaches that rejuvenate business growth.

MBA candidates – willing to pony up $50,000 – are also poised for Braden’s brain compatible leadership development for an innovation era. How so?

1.Talent developed across boundaries and borders. Braden suggests that organizations make changes that will integrate talents with a wide-angle lens, across currently barricaded silos that limit fringe idea development. Braden’s book examines and engages unique components of local, national and global business leadership approaches, through case studies, research in business leadership in ways that fit current research from cognitive and neuro-sciences. The book opens topics on talent develop that will engage active learning, shared decision-making, and innovative practices.

2.People as capital. Braden suggests tactics that change problems into possibilities through intelligent risk taking by people who are motivated and committed as highly engaged employees. Drawing from experts on the future of management, such as Gary Hamel, and on practices more clearly associated with right brain leadership, the book opens discussions about how to succeed in the creative economy. For instance, Braden views mutual respect between management and employees, trust that invigorates a workplace, and flexibility that enables innovation to drive the future of an organization. My MBA students will use innovative prompts from this book, to explore and improve tone for brain chemicals that steer innovation business culture.

3.Problem solving skills developed through curiosity that averts crisis as it increases innovation. Braden warns against the “catching up syndrome” that GM uses to catch up to Toyota’s position five years ago. Instead he recommends building a culture of innovation, that extends beyond any one project. My MBA students will be encouraged to explore Braden’s notion of including everybody in the organization eventually as integral to leading innovative solutions. Start with a core team of people to serve as innovation shepherds he suggested and to begin to build innovative capabilities across the organization – through solving problems in enterprising ways.

4.Case study research shows examples of removing barriers to innovation, such as Nokia moving from tires to mobile phones, and Apple’s computer company to a consumer electronics company. Braden opens segues into organizations that manage change as a way to build innovation past the barriers most pioneers face. His solution? …get out there and do it! Don’t let your brilliance fade. Knock over unique barriers to innovation, create a healthy cooperation with the need for operational excellence, and let your brilliance shine out. A timely discussion launch for my MBA students who will lead innovation with the brain in mind.

5.Team work – Apple build relationship with Target, Walmart and Cosco – to develop a completely originaldistribution system with iTunes and digital music. Baden illustrated how team work meant innovative changes in marketing, operations and sales to facilitate the changes needed for successful innovations. Team approach for innovation in collaborative business settings requires the kind of forerunners modeled best in Braden’s unique blog on innovation, at Blogging Innovation. Here, he gathered expert writers on topics related to novelty and innovative leadership for a new era.

The book, Stoking your innovative Bonfire will challenge MBA students about the value of building on innovative ideas through social media. Through media research and Braden’s book, they will create brain based tactics to: 1). Recruiting innovative leaders through two-footed questions; 2). Facilitate meetings as creative roundtables that jumpstart brainpower for profitability; 3). Staff-centered innovation opportunities through brain based motivation; 4). Building innovative communities where mirror neurons raise productivity; 5). Social media and technology’s role in increased business innovation; 6). Opposing Views and Innovative actions on opposite sides of problem for shared vision; 7). Mentoring intelligent inspired colleagues for entrepreneurial leadership; 8). Diversity or myths or innovation at the center of beliefs; 9). Ethics within working memory, basil ganglia and business practices; 10). Humility and the higher performance mind through intrapersonal intelligence; 11). Intuition for invention stored in brain’s amygdala with use; 12). Organizational innovation linked to worker brain’s plasticity; 13). Talent development through multiple intelligence growth and inclusion; 14). Transform toxic workplaces through neuro-genesis approaches; 15). Multi-tasking – research – and the focused human brain at work; 16). Competition or consensus for innovative advantage?; 17 Bureaucracy’s role in innovative growth and global expansion; 18). Humor’s role in the creative mix for high performance minds at work; 19). Fear holds an ax over innovative input in stagnated bureaucracies; 20). Toxic personalities and their impact upon innovative change; 21). Smart skills for innovative leadership in a post-recession era

Selected Readings and Texts:

Text LEAD INNOVATION WITH THE BRAIN IN MIND, currently in process to address these topics, as a joint endeavor between Weber, McMaster, and Burnett who won top national awards for small business leaders he facilitatedinto millionaires.

Leading the Revolution (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)

The Fifth Discipline; The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization – Peter Senge 1994

Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis – Bill George – 2009

Lessons on Leadership; the 7 Fundamental management Skills for Leaders at all Levels

Community; the Structure of Belonging – Peter Block – 2009

A Whole New Mind – Dan Pink – 2006

I’ll include case studies from innovative leaders such as:

·Bill Conaty – Talent management

·Jack Welch – Execution

·David Rubenstein – Global Economic Crisis

·Jeffrey Sachs – Economics for Crowded Planet

·T. Boone Pickens – Energy Dependence

·Kevin Roberts – Branding

·George Lucas – Education, Culture and Future of Cinema

·Peter Voser – International Insights

·Gary Hamel – Management Innovation

·Irene Rosenfeld – Leading Transformational Change

·Ursula Burns – Where to From Here?

·Paul Krugman – Economy

·Bill Clinton – Embracing our Common Humanity

·Peter Block – Community – the Structure of Belonging

·Bill Cala – Contrasts between Leading Local and Internati

Kelley Stokes Innovation for MBA Leadership Shift

I plan to use Braden Kelly’s dynamite new book, Stoking your Innovation Bonfire to move MBA thinking into  brain based leadership approaches that rejuvenate business growth.

MBA candidates – willing to pony up $50,000 –  are also poised for  Braden’s brain compatible leadership development for an innovation era. How so?

1.      Talent developed across boundaries and borders. Braden suggests that organizations make changes that will integrate talents with a wide-angle lens, across currently barricaded silos that limit fringe idea development.  Braden’s book examines and engages unique components of local, national and global business leadership approaches, through case studies, research in business leadership in ways that fit current research from cognitive and neuro-sciences. The book opens topics on talent develop that will engage active learning, shared decision-making, and innovative practices.

2.      People as capital.  Braden suggests tactics that change problems into possibilities through intelligent risk taking by people who are motivated and committed as highly engaged employees. Drawing from experts on the future of management, such as Gary Hamel, and on practices more clearly associated with right brain leadership, the book opens discussions about how to succeed in the creative economy. For instance, Braden views mutual respect between management and employees, trust that invigorates a workplace, and flexibility that enables innovation to drive the future of an organization. My MBA students will use innovative prompts from this book, to explore and improve tone for brain chemicals that steer innovation business culture.

3.      Problem solving skills developed through curiosity that averts crisis as it increases innovation. Braden warns against the “catching up syndrome” that GM uses to catch up to Toyota’s position five years ago. Instead he recommends building a culture of innovation, that extends beyond any one project. My MBA students will be encouraged to explore Braden’s notion of including everybody in the organization eventually as integral to leading innovative solutions. Start with a core team of people to serve as innovation shepherds he suggested and to begin to build innovative capabilities across the organization – through solving problems in enterprising ways.

4.      Case study research shows examples of removing barriers to innovation,  such as Nokia moving from tires to mobile phones, and Apple’s computer company to a consumer electronics company. Braden opens segues into organizations that manage change as a way to build innovation past the barriers most pioneers face. His solution? …get out there and do it! Don’t let your brilliance fade. Knock over unique barriers to innovation, create a healthy cooperation with the need for operational excellence, and let your brilliance shine out. A timely discussion launch for my MBA students who will lead innovation with the brain in mind.

5.      Team work – Apple build relationship with Target, Walmart and Cosco – to develop a completely original  distribution system with iTunes and digital music. Baden illustrated how team work meant innovative changes in marketing, operations and sales to facilitate the changes needed for successful innovations. Team approach for innovation in collaborative business settings requires the kind of forerunners modeled best in Braden’s unique blog on innovation, at Blogging Innovation.  Here, he gathered expert writers on topics related to novelty and innovative leadership for a new era.

The book, Stoking your innovative Bonfire will challenge MBA students about the value of building on innovative ideas through social media. Through media research and Braden’s book, they will create brain based tactics to:  1). Recruiting innovative leaders through two-footed questions; 2). Facilitate meetings as creative roundtables that jumpstart brainpower for profitability; 3). Staff-centered innovation opportunities through brain based motivation; 4). Building innovative communities where mirror neurons raise productivity; 5). Social media and technology’s role in increased business innovation; 6). Opposing Views and Innovative actions on opposite sides of problem for shared vision; 7). Mentoring intelligent inspired colleagues for entrepreneurial leadership; 8). Diversity or myths or innovation at the center of beliefs; 9). Ethics within working memory, basil ganglia and business practices; 10). Humility and the higher performance mind through intrapersonal intelligence; 11). Intuition for invention stored in brain’s amygdala with use; 12). Organizational innovation linked to worker brain’s plasticity; 13). Talent development through multiple intelligence growth and inclusion; 14). Transform toxic workplaces through neuro-genesis approaches; 15). Multi-tasking – research – and the focused human brain at work; 16). Competition or consensus for innovative advantage?; 17 Bureaucracy’s role in innovative growth and global expansion; 18). Humor’s role in the creative mix for high performance minds at work; 19). Fear holds an ax over innovative input in stagnated bureaucracies; 20). Toxic personalities and their impact upon innovative change; 21). Smart skills for innovative leadership in a post-recession era

Selected Readings and Texts:

Text LEAD INNOVATION WITH THE BRAIN IN MIND, currently in process to address these topics, as a joint endeavor between Weber, McMaster, and Burnett who won top national awards for small business leaders he facilitated  into millionaires.

Leading the Revolution (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)

The Fifth Discipline; The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization – Peter Senge 1994

Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis – Bill George – 2009

Lessons on Leadership; the 7 Fundamental management Skills for Leaders at all Levels

Community; the Structure of Belonging – Peter Block – 2009

A Whole New Mind – Dan Pink – 2006

I’ll include case studies from innovative leaders such as:

• Bill Conaty – Talent management
• Jack Welch – Execution
• David Rubenstein – Global Economic Crisis
• Jeffrey Sachs – Economics for Crowded Planet
• T. Boone Pickens – Energy Dependence
• Kevin Roberts – Branding
• George Lucas – Education, Culture and Future of Cinema
• Peter Voser – International Insights
• Gary Hamel – Management Innovation
• Irene Rosenfeld – Leading Transformational Change
• Ursula Burns – Where to From Here?
• Paul Krugman – Economy
• Bill Clinton – Embracing our Common Humanity
• Peter Block – Community – the Structure of Belonging
• Bill Cala – Contrasts between Leading Local and International Innovations
• Barry Burnett – Lead in Ways that Drive Profit and Growth
• Gerald Sardinha – Lead Talented Teams to Integrate Science/Technology/Arts
• Jeff Shepard – Entrepreneurship and the Shaping of a New World Order

MBA students will also compare Braden’s refreshing ideas with those stated on diverse innovation sites, such as:

http://www.ovoinnovation.com/ – Jeffrey Phillips
http://www.innovationtools.com/ – Chuck Frey
http://www.innovationlabs.com/ – Bryan Coffman
http://www.ideachampions.com/ – Mitch Ditkoff’s
http://www.innocentive.com/
http://www.jpb.com/report103/index.php

onal Innovations

·Barry Burnett – Lead in Ways that Drive Profit and Growth

·Gerald Sardinha – Lead Talented Teams to Integrate Science/Technology/Arts

·Jeff Shepard – Entrepreneurship and the Shaping of a New World Order

MBA students will also compare Braden’s refreshing ideas with those stated on diverse innovation sites, such as:

http://www.ovoinnovation.com/ – Jeffrey Phillips
http://www.innovationtools.com/ – Chuck Frey
http://www.innovationlabs.com/ – Bryan Coffman
http://www.ideachampions.com/ – Mitch Ditkoff’s
http://www.innocentive.com/
http://www.jpb.com/report103/index.php