Some leaders focus on efficiency and make life easier in the moment. Some leaders focus on adaptation and make life easier tomorrow. Both are beautiful in their own right, and both result in compromise. Neither is innovative, collaborative, nor transformational.

Innovation happens when we look for the win-win, the way to do both at the same time. A leader that leans into this creative process cultivates the conditions for transformation.

🎯 For more on decision-making for innovation, check out Dr. Alan Barnard on YouTube.

🎁 For more on collaboration, see the Thomas-Kilman Conflict Resolution Model.