Special Report on Innovation

Some of the emerging views brought up include: The paradox and the necessity of pursuing sustaining and disruptive innovation simultaneously require a new kind of talent called integral leadership, the usual tools of persuasion -- reason, statistics, and bullet-points of logic -- fail to cause the necessary changes in management culture to allow disruptive innovation to thrive.

Leaders must guide companies through an emotional leap to embrace a future based upon disruptive innovation in technology and work practices and the search for viable disruptive innovation-new customer values, new markets, new business models-starts by systematically exploring a company's strategic frontier. Originally published as Strategy & Leadership (2005, Vol.33, No.1)