Research – R&D Leadership Skills and Styles
- Resource Type
- Slides
- Publish Date
- 11/09/2011
- Authors
- Lou Gritzo, Dan Carpenter, Alan Fusfeld
- Topic
- Leading Innovation Organizations
- Associated Event
- 2011 Member Summit
2008 – 2011
Deliverables
Report out, Member Summit 2011
Description
While there is much information regarding leadership in a general sense, there remains great opportunity to better define leadership in an R&D capacity. This working team determined there are characteristic differences in leadership skills implemented in the technical (R&D) industry versus leadership in other industries.
The working group’s research took two simultaneous paths:
1) leadership styles based approach using roundtable discussions with IRI awardees and medalists, and
2) data analysis of R&D leaders vs. leaders in other functional areas utilizing Center for Creative Leadership databases.