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Collective Genius
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Collective Genius

by Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, Kent Lineback
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 41m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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Recasting the Role of the Leader

I believe that if the CEO always thinks he is the owner and the doer, he will not accomplish things. It doesn't matter if the goal is flying a rocket to the moon, digging oil holes, or getting the British out of India. I go back to my three heroes [Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King]. I don't think they did anything. Instead, they enabled people to do what these people thought, in their hearts, was the right thing to do. That is the future of leadership.

—Vineet Nayar, then CEO, HCL Technologies

Leaders of innovation create organizations where people are willing and able to do the work of innovation, where everyone has the opportunity to contribute his or her slice of genius to the collective ...

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ISBN: 9781422187593