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DO GOALS HELP CREATE INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS?

DO GOALS HELP CREATE INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS?. INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS ARE NOT SELF GENERATING. Robert D. Behn. Five Linkages between Goal Establishment and Transformation. Goals redefine the meaning of success Goals can get all thinking & behaving innovatively

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DO GOALS HELP CREATE INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS?

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  1. DO GOALS HELP CREATE INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS? INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS ARE NOT SELF GENERATING. Robert D. Behn

  2. Five Linkages between Goal Establishment and Transformation • Goals redefine the meaning of success • Goals can get all thinking & behaving innovatively • Goals can foster leaders at all levels • Goals can encourage organizations to connect with other institutions • Goal accomplishment can change public values

  3. Why Goal setting fails • Politically difficult to agree on goals. • All organizations are resistant to change, and gov’t organizations are designed to resist change.

  4. Unobtrusive Leadership: An Alternative Approach • Generate a lot of ideas, don’t get attached to any. Some will survive • Be persistent about accomplishing something • Using the garbage can committee strategy • Neutralize the opposition • Recruit strategically

  5. Key Points • Goals can displace process as the primary focus in an organization • Goals can simulate crisis/urgency • Crisis leads to changed behavior

  6. Innovation by DesignNancy Roberts • What is the relationship between innovation and entrepreneurship in organizations?

  7. Entrepreneurship • The entrepreneur is the driver who pushes change along and directs it. • The entrepreneur can be individual or collective.

  8. Key Questions • Should entrepreneurs manage change by “groping along”? • Should entrepreneurs manage change by systematic analysis and planning?

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