Why can some organizations innovate time and again, while most cannot?
You might think the key to innovation is attracting exceptional creative
talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational
silos. All of these things may help - but there's only one way to ensure
sustained innovation: You need to lead it - and with a special kind of
leadership. Collective Genius shows you how.
Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, along with former Pixar tech
wizard Greg Brandeau, MIT researcher Emily Truelove, and Being the
Boss coauthor Kent Lineback, found among leaders a widely shared, and
mistaken, assumption: that a "good" leader in all other respects would
also be an effective leader of innovation. The truth is, leading
innovation takes a distinctive kind of leadership, one that unleashes
and harnesses the "collective genius" of the people in the organization.
Using vivid stories of individual leaders at companies like Volkswagen,
Google, eBay, and Pfizer, as well as nonprofits and international
government agencies, the authors show how successful leaders of
innovation don't create a vision and try to make innovation happen
themselves. Rather, they create and sustain a culture where innovation
is allowed to happen again and again - an environment where people are
both willing and able to do the hard work that innovative problem
solving requires.
Collective Genius will not only inspire you; it will give you the
concrete, practical guidance you need to build innovation into the
fabric of your business.
