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Innovation Doesn’t Just Happen
Karen Klein
(March 19, 2007)
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In business environments where success is dependent on innovation, project leadership requires flexibility, inquisitiveness and creativity. But it starts at the top, where senior executives must champion a culture unafraid of change, risk-taking and, yes, even the occasional mistake. Projects@Work interviews the CEO of the American Management Association.
Ed Reilly is the CEO of the American Management Association (AMA), an organization that has worked with thousands of senior executives at hundreds of companies, helping them create the culture and infrastructure to become innovative, customer-centric organizations. As a global nonprofit, the AMA provides a full range of management development and educational services to individuals, companies and government agencies worldwide, including a suite of project management courses.
ProjectsAtWork spoke with Reilly about how project management theory is being integrated inside the far reaches of corporate culture as the need for flexible and innovation increases.
What cues can project managers take from the best practices that have been developed for corporate management?
If you look at the best practices we’ve been pursuing and the research we’ve been doing, you’ll see a common theme of leadership, communication skills and new organizational structures for corporations.
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