The 3 Types of Leaders of Innovative Companies

Deborah Ancona and Kate Isaacs, researchers at MIT Sloan School of
Management, say many companies struggle to be nimble with a
command-and-control leadership culture. They studied Xerox’s
R&D outfit PARC and the materials science company W.L. Gore
& Associates and found these highly innovative organizations
have three kinds of leaders: entrepreneurial, enabling, and
architecting ones. These roles work together to give direction and
avoid creative chaos. Ancona and Isaacs are coauthors of the HBR
article "Nimble Leadership."