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7. Managing Innovators

Authors : Daniel Huber, Heiner Kaufmann, Martin Steinmann

Published in: Bridging the Innovation Gap

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Now that we have examined the necessary organizational and process requirements, we turn our attention in the present chapter to the task of managing innovators. As we have seen, we need NT personality types for innovation. As these NT personality types have a completely different way of thinking and perceiving their environment than the SJ personality types, it stands to reason that it will also be necessary to manage NT personality types according to different principles.

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It warrants pointing out in this regard that not all employees are suitable for work in the two different phases. In addition to the relative suitability of different personality types, there is also the matter of different skill sets.

The older description used here from Keirsey.com from the year 2010 (http://www.keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=3&c=overview) appears to us to be clearer and therefore more appropriate for our present purposes.

Frequently cited and presumably erroneous “quote” of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Saint-Exupéry’s work Wisdom of the Sands is normally given as the source (sometimes erroneously The Little Prince where nothing of the sort comes to pass). The corresponding passage, however, is somewhat different: “When I communicate to my people the love of sailing so that each and every one senses a yearning in himself because a weight inside himself pulls him to the sea, then you will soon see how they look for different activities that promise them a thousand special properties.” (Saint-Exupéry 1951, p. 285 in the German edition).

Hans O. Rohner, www.b4u.ch.

The aim here is to preserve the intrinsic motivation of the employees. Staff cuts are poison.

de Saint-Exupéry, A. (1951). English edition: Wisdom of the sands. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (Citadelle 1948). (German edition: Die Stadt in der Wüste (Dt. Ausgabe). Düsseldorf: Rauch).

Title: Managing Innovators
Authors: Daniel Huber
Heiner Kaufmann
Martin Steinmann
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Bridging the Innovation Gap
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-55497-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-55498-3

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55498-3_7