HBR On Leadership
HBR On Leadership
Harvard Business Review
How the Best Leaders Drive Innovation
8 minutes Posted Feb 14, 2024 at 11:02 am.
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If you’re leading innovation, you need very specific leadership skills. Harvard Business School professor Linda Hill has studied leadership and innovation for decades and is the coauthor of Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation. She says that leaders who shepherd innovation can’t rely on formal authority. Instead, they need to understand how to get people to co-create with them, which requires a different kind of leadership. As Hill says, “You cannot tell people to innovate. You can only invite them.”