What are Leadership Breakthroughs?
Creativity is the single most important leadership competency for enterprises seeking a path through the complexity facing them... 
IBM CEO Survey, 2010
Leaders everywhere are constantly being challenged to be create breakthroughs, to think and to do things differently because old ways don't work anymore and ready-made solutions often don't solve the problem anyway. Leadership breakthroughs come in many varieties. They can be:
- Leading-edge organizations
- Distinctive business models
- Innovative forms for organizing work and connecting people who may not have worked together before
- New products, designs, and services originating from big ideas or small steps that build on past experience
- Novel techniques that overcome political obstacles to making a project a success
- Unusual ways to link people to each other and to information, both internally and externally
- Uncommon approaches to building the right climate to challenge the team's creativity
Lynne Levesque, Ed.D.
Consultant, Researcher, Author
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