Seven Metaphors to Help Creative Leaders Innovate

To be a successful creative leader, it's essential to drive innovative behavior in your team. This article offers seven metaphors that can help you achieve this, such as creating a structured model for innovating at the front end, focusing the lens on the type of innovation required, and running small initiatives to create a tangible proposition quickly. Other metaphors include creating a rain forest climate for idea schemes, innovating to learn rather than training to innovate, involving a wide range of departments in implementation strategy, and guillotining your team if they talk too much about innovation and not enough about actually doing it.