After having successfully completed an inaugural Innovation Honeymoon®, the unusually insightful and creative initial period of an organizational newcomer, leaders must ensure that the imaginative and fruitful transformation process continues. They need to construct and constantly upgrade a powerful insight factory with ever increasing intellectual productivity, which bestows infinite blessings on the organization and its environment.

Races are decided at the finishing line. The same applies for organizational programs aimed at transformation, such as the systematic management of the `Innovation Honeymoon®' . This is the unusually insightful and creative initial period of new employees.

At the last stage of the inaugural innovation honeymoon, leaders need to anchor its gains securely in the organization. They must make it sustainable by reconfiguring what I call the `Institutional Triad' of spirit, coordination, and motivation (see Exhibit I). Fortunately, implementing fundamental changes at this juncture is easier than before, since the quick wins obtained through the first innovation honeymoon cycle will have lent high credibility to the powers that be.

When the word `honeymoon' was first used, it denoted the initial period of increasing sweetness in a marriage, but also hinted at the vanishing of affections resembling the waning of the moon. Once the courtship is over, oftentimes special attention disappears in organizations, too.

Effective Executive Magazine, Organizational Programs, Iinnovation Honeymoon, Oganizational Dough, Organizational Honeymoon, Pathogenic Organisms, Organizational Journey, Organizational Cage, Institutional Triad, Innovation Honeymoon Management Process, Innovation Flame Burning.