Ideas change everything

How to manage for collective creativity

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Linda Hill |

TEDxCambridge

• September 2014

What's the secret to unlocking the creativity hidden inside your daily work, and giving every great idea a chance? Harvard professor Linda Hill, co-author of "Collective Genius," has studied some of the world's most creative companies to come up with a set of tools and tactics to keep great ideas flowing -- from everyone in the company, not just the designated "creatives."

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What's the secret to unlocking the creativity hidden inside your daily work, and giving every great idea a chance? Harvard professor Linda Hill, co-author of "Collective Genius," has studied some of the world's most creative companies to come up with a set of tools and tactics to keep great ideas flowing -- from everyone in the company, not just the designated "creatives."

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Management professor

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Linda Hill studies collective genius -- the way great companies, and great leaders, empower creativity from many.

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Collective Genius

Linda Hill et al. | Harvard Business Review Press (2014)

Linda Hill et al. - *Collective Genius*

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