John Sweeney & Elena Imaretska, Co-authors, The Innovative Mindset: 5 Behaviors for Accelerating Breakthroughs

As leaders, we typically oversee finance, operations, marketing, communications, human resource and even innovation officers. We empower individuals in these roles to evaluate, orchestrate, strategize, create, hire and innovate. However, sometimes there is a common misconception that empowerment is a handoff, and for many things it is, but when it comes to innovation, it has to start from and reside at the top.