Pride Investment Portfolio: An Innovation Management Advanced Topic

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Pride Investment Portfolio

by Julian Keith Loren

+1.510.396.0888
jkl@digiratti.com
www.linkedin.com/in/juliankeithloren

Pride Investment Portfolio ROUGH DRAFT

Seeing where individuals invest their pride
can be pretty easy.

GO TEAM!

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While pride investment varies widely,
most of us are comfortable in disclosing our
“Pride Investment Portfolio.”
I’m very proud to be
an Irish, Rastafarian,
Vegan, Republican,
Hockey Fan.



When hiring, it can be useful to look for
Pride Investments across 5 categories:



Pride in Self

SELF



Pride in
Association
with the
Organization

SELF COMPANY



Pride in
Association
with
Admired
Leaders

SELF COMPANY LEADERS



Pride in
the Team of
Co-Workers

SELF COMPANY LEADERS TEAM



“Artisanal”
Pride in
Work
Product

SELF COMPANY LEADERS TEAM WORK
PRODUCT



The goal is to ascertain the relative levels of
Pride Investment in various categories,
rather than absolute levels.

PRODUCT



Some examples:

PRODUCT



Some examples:

You might look for a Salesperson with strong
“Pride Investments” in Self, Co., and Leaders
categories.
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SELF CO. LEADERS TEAM WORK



Some examples:

You might look for a Salesperson with strong
“Pride Investments” in Self, Co., and Leaders
categories.
I love this company,
I admire the executive team,
and I’m the best sales person
who ever walked this Earth.



Some examples:

If you are hiring someone for a highly-
repetitive, non-creative position, you might
look for much lower Self Pride investment.
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Some examples:

If you are hiring someone for a highly-
repetitive, non-creative position, you might
look for much lower Self Pride investment.

I will always follow instructions,
and have tremendous loyalty to
this company.



Why is the Pride Investment Portfolio useful
for Innovation Managers?



Why is the Pride Investment Portfolio useful
for Innovation Managers?

Top Innovators
have a unique
(and problematic)
way of “Investing Pride.”

So what?
I’m a genius!



Typical Pride Investment Portfolio for a
Top Innovator

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What is the problem?

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To Human Resources (H.R.) professionals
in your company, this will look
“Dissociative.”
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The Top Innovators that you need
may fail personality and
psychological testing.
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Common Solution

Your
H.R.
Top Innovator Innovation
(a.k.a.
Talent Pool Team
“Top Innovator
Filter”)

Hire as Contractors/
Consultants



Common Solution

Contractors are not expected to
have long-term loyalty to the
Your
H.R.executive
Top Innovator company or Innovation
(a.k.a.
management, and often by-pass
Talent Pool Team
“Top Innovator
H.R. screening.
Filter”)

Hire as Contractors/
Consultants



Is there a better solution?



Top Innovators are “Associative”

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But with successful innovation
teams and specific accomplishments

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EGO GROUP FAN TEAM WORK



Rather than with the company
and the executive team.

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Top Innovator Outlook

I’ll work at a big company, if it I get
bigger, more-challenging projects.

I’ll stay here as long as the
work is interesting.

Shannon, Pacho & I created some amazing
products 5 years ago. We’re all excited about
joining this company, because we get to work
together again.



Top Innovator Value

HUGE



Top Innovator Value

HUGE
Which is one reason that we have
a “War for Talent”



What are your chances of winning
the “War for Talent” …



the “War for Talent”
if you apply standards
that were created for personnel in
non-creative, highly-repetitive roles …

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SELF CO. LDRS TEAM WORK



the “War for Talent”
if you apply standards
that were created for personnel in
non-creative, highly-repetitive roles
to personnel in highly-creative,
non-repetitive roles?
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Are there other practices that are keeping
you from creating a highly-effective
innovation organization?



Join the discussion!

Be part of the solution!



If you are interested in participating in
round-tables or collaborative workshops on
…



• Innovation Culture,
• Organization Optimization for Innovation Effectiveness,
• Innovation Strategy,
• or other Innovation Management topics, …



• Innovation Culture,
• Organization Optimization for Innovation Effectiveness,
• Innovation Strategy,
• or other Innovation Management topics,

Please contact the

at collaborate@innomgmt.com



More thoughts, models, and tales to follow …

Julian Keith Loren
+1.510.396.0888
jkl@digiratti.com
www.linkedin.com/in/juliankeithloren



Please send comments to
jkl@digiratti.com

THANK YOU!

THANKS TO:

∙ Dr. Monika Hamori, IE Business School, for valuable feedback on an early
version of the Pride Investment Portfolio.


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