leadership and innovation ( post something I wrote before)

Last Friday KTSF interviewed a former Chinese Dotcom CTO
and an Director from a big company (she was my alumna by
chance, so  I payed attention to the show:-). They
talked about leadership and innovation, which I got
some deep impression.  Leadership and innovation were
used to be different concepts, such as leadership is
giving people the impression of being strong,
demanding, people skills, having vision and influence
etc. While innovation is always involoved with coming
up with new product and technology, scientic or
engineering stuff. But imin Lee (she is from cisco,
and she was the CEO of a startup company acquired by
cisco) said innovation should include business model
since science has developed so fast that application
of technology in business application has become very
critical. In that sense, innovation in developing new
business model is also counted, which might be ignored
or narrowed out.  And the Netease CTO said, innovation
should include the ways of get things done
(做事的方法). He seems to come from management side,
so his mind set was from management, team buildin, and
hiring the right person etc.

The integration of leadership and innovation should
apply to every aspect of work. Leading not only needs
authority and efficiency, but also innovation. A
leader should have both these characters and skills.
And leadership and innovation should not be talked and
studied seperately. We chinese many times are afraid
to lead -- leading almost is interpreted as people
management which we think we are not good at it; we
chinese maybe good at innovation at technology, but
may not be very good a business applications. That may
makes us to be a hardworking people, but may not be
successful people. So their opinion is nowadays
leading must be associated with innovation. And
innovation must rely on leadership to implement and
drive things and get things done. Ipod might not be a
new technology, but it leads to the change of life
style. 

The following is my own thoughts:
And in personal life, we also need leadership and
innovation skills, that includes living by yourself,
with family, group of friends and within a community.
leadership skills make you dare to voice your voice,
to implement your desire to make changes, and
communicate with others.  Innovation can make you do
things smartly and differently from conventional
routine. Having the innovation mindset also drive you
to find alternatives, do others don't dare to do. That
would make your life and the life of people around you
a lot different.