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  • June 2014
  • Article
  • Harvard Business Review

Collective Genius

By: Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove and Kent Lineback
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Abstract

Competitiveness depends in great part on the ability to innovate. The perennial challenge, then, is to build an organization capable of innovating again and again. Traditional, direction-setting leadership can work well when the solution to a problem is known and straightforward. But if the problem calls for a truly original response, no one can decide in advance what that response should be. So the role of a leader of innovation is not to set a vision and motivate others to follow it. It's to create a community that is willing and able to innovate.

Keywords

Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Leadership; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture

Citation

Hill, Linda A., Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback. "Collective Genius." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 6 (June 2014): 94–102.

About The Author

Linda A. Hill

Organizational Behavior
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