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■ Freeing up time for innovation. Which of your team’s activities can you
divest or stop that will give you more time and resources for innovation?
■ Building capability to innovate. Do your team members understand dif-

ferent types of innovation such as incremental adjacencies and disruptive
and lean innovation? How can you educate them on these different ap-
proaches and give them opportunities to learn them through experience?

■ Failure and learning. To what extent is it all right for people on your team to
take risks and fail? What can you do to encourage the right kind of con-
trolled risk taking and deliberate learning?
■ Culture for innovation. What can you do to motivate your team members,
individually and collectively, to continually look for new and better ways to
conduct your business or contribute to your organization and customers?
Can you give them time or seed money to shape new ideas? How well do
you model a culture of innovation?