MIT Sloan Management Review

Think product innovation is hard? Management innovation is even harder, according to Julian Birkinshaw of the London Business School.

Looking to spark innovation in your R&D workforce? Look for employees who are motivated by intellectual challenges — but not by job security.

The difference between effective and ineffective change makers is that the effective ones don’t rely on a single source of influence. They marshal several sources at once to get superior results.

Some companies go to great lengths to monitor their workers to discourage stealing and other bad behavior. While monitoring may weed out scofflaws, it may also have a deleterious effect on the morale and motivation of other employees.