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• Different leaders have different leadership styles. These styles effect how a team operates, how team members work together and what the team can accomplish.
• The leader needs to lead. But a great team involves not only the leader but the individuals who are part of the team and how they react to the leader. The leader needs to be aware of how to get the most from each team member.
• Team members need to know their roles and what they bring to the team. Without specific instructions team members must be able to bring their best work to the team to make the entire project happen.

Lead for collective creativity

Linda Hill talks about how to change your process to focus on innovation.

Practitioner Points:

• Learn to leverage the expertise and different points of view of team members.
• Great teams have three things: Creative abrasion, creative agility and creative resolution.
• Design thinking is key – run a series of experiments. Learn from these experiments and deal with missteps and mistakes in a positive way.
• Leadership is the secret sauce. Create a safe space and norms for people to do the hard work of innovating. Have an environment where people want to belong and participate. 

How to claim your leadership power

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Michael Timms talks about how, as a leader, you need to take responsibility for what happens on your team. You need to be a role model for responsibility if you want responsibility in others.

Practitioner Points:

• Take personal accountability – don’t blame others when things go wrong with the team. Look in the mirror to see what you could have done better.  Use this to help engineer the solution.
• Use system thinking - Where did the process break down? Understand what is really causing the problem and resolve this.

About the Author

Rose Klimovich

Rose Klimovich is Visiting Professor of Marketing and Management at Manhattan College in New York. She is also a Digital Marketing and Strategy consultant to small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Formerly, as the Vice President – Product Management and Product Marketing for Telx, Rose Klimovich created the Telx business strategy and developed the investment plan for new products and services in areas including colocation, cloud, Ethernet, and video conferencing. Rose’s team supported vertical markets including Financial Services, Media and Service Providers.

Prior to this, Rose was the Vice President of Business Strategy for AT&T, responsible for strategy development and investment decisions in new markets and technologies. Rose has more than 20 years of experience and achievement in designing, scaling and managing Internet, VPN and data businesses. Rose led AT&T to the #1 share position in VPN and to a leadership position in Internet Services.

Rose has an MBA and a BS in Math/Economics from Carnegie-Mellon University. Rose is Joint Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Venture Fund.

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