What if leading innovation isn't about pushing your vision onto others, but inviting them to co-create the future with you? And how do leaders create the conditions where individual slices of genius become collective genius?

These are the key questions we discuss in this episode of Changing Conversations with Linda Hill.

Linda is a leading expert on leadership, collaboration, and innovation. She teaches these topics at Harvard Business School, where she is an award-winning Professor and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. She is also the Co-Founder of Paradox Strategies and InnovationForce and a best-selling author of multiple books, including Collective Genius and, most recently, Genius at Scale.

In this conversation, we explore:

How innovation comes from collaboration and co-creation, not flashes of insight from lone visionaries.
The ABC of leading innovation: being an Architect who builds culture and capabilities, a Bridger who works across organisational boundaries, and a Catalyst who sparks ecosystem movements.
Why leaders must learn to amplify differences and manage conflict constructively rather than minimising it prematurely.
Why the biggest barrier to innovation isn't lack of ideas but career risk – when failure is career-ending, leaders don’t want to take the chance.
How microactions matter for innovation: using invitational language, making space for a variety of voices in the conversation, engaging sparring partners to challenge assumptions, and killing ‘zombie projects’ that drain resources.

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