Linda Hill: How to manage for collective creativity
琳达希尔: 如何管理集体创造力
Linda Hill studies collective genius -- the way great companies, and great leaders, empower creativity from many. Full bio
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to help people learn to lead.
think of as great leadership
to leading innovation.
in which I'm interested.
up close and personal
通过更私密的途径去观察那些
across the globe,
of hours on the ground,
and pages of field notes
for patterns in what our leaders did.
这些领导者的行为模式。
that can innovate time and again,
持续不断创新的机构,
notions of leadership.
about creating a vision,
that is both new and useful.
也可以是一种管理方式。
or a way of organizing.
or it can be breakthrough.
if you know who this is.
have seen a Pixar movie,
I had the privilege of studying.
a rat becoming a master chef.
成为大厨的电影。
are really mainstream today,
colleagues nearly 20 years
full-length C.G. movie.
they've produced 14 movies.
现在在这里可以告诉你们,
and I'm here to tell you
about innovation, though,
having an 'Aha!' moment.
what it takes to make a Pixar movie:
都需要些什么:
produces one of those movies.
去制作那样的一部电影。
250 people four to five years,
这样一个版本的流程图。
drew a version of this picture.
was a neat series of steps
he thought it failed to really tell you
他还是认为这并不能真正地告诉你们,
and, frankly, messy their process was.
以及说实话,相当杂乱的过程。
at Pixar, the story evolves.
the challenges are
一个特殊情节的时候,
are working on a particular scene.
of chocolate to the bird,
接近6个月的时间去达到完美的效果。
almost six months to perfect.
is considered finished
an animator drew a character
suggested a mischievous side.
想表现出他淘气的一面。
drawing, he thought it was great.
it doesn't fit the character."
came back and said,
把弯眉毛放进电影里吧。“
was allowed to share
as his slice of genius,
reconceive the character
that really improved the story.
重要的方式改进了故事。
of innovation is a paradox.
创新的核心是一个悖论。
and passions of many people
into a work that is actually useful.
problem solving,
who have different expertise
usually, of trial and error.
missteps and mistakes.
错误的步骤和错误的结果。
very exhilarating,
really downright scary.
that Pixar is able to do what it does,
what's going on here?
这是一个怎样的团队呢?
and certainly Hollywood,
that have failed.
cooks, if you will, in the kitchen.
有太多的厨师在厨房里了。
with all of its cooks,
time and time again?
an Islamic Bank in Dubai,
or a social enterprise in Africa,
或者一个非洲的社会企业,
have three capabilities:
agility and creative resolution.
以及创新的解决方式。
to create a marketplace of ideas
they amplify differences,
人们会放大差异,
about brainstorming,
heated but constructive arguments
而又有效的争论,
to actively listen, but guess what?
但是你们知道么?
advocate for their point of view.
innovation rarely happens
不知道如何争论,
diversity and conflict.
to test and refine that portfolio of ideas
追寻,反应和调整,
reflection and adjustment.
your way to the future.
you have that interesting combination
and the artistic process.
experiments, and not a series of pilots.
而不是一系列的试点。
that you need to know.
someone or something is to blame.
某些人或某些事就要对此负责。
is creative resolution.
even opposing ideas
that is new and useful.
以牺牲个人观点的方式去融入集体。
they never go along to get along.
or one individual dominate,
even if it's the expert.
decision making process
去达成一个决定,
solutions to arise
infrastructure group of Google.
of Google is the group
up and running 24/7.
to introduce Gmail and YouTube,
system wasn't adequate.
还无法满足要求。
and the infrastructure group at that time
who he referred to as his brain trust,
about this situation.
to tackle this task,
强行执行这个任务,
在不同的方案中
to emerge spontaneously
大桌(Big Table),
as Build It From Scratch.
(Built It From Scratch)。
build on the current system.
that it was time for a whole new system.
重建另一个系统的时候了。
were allowed to work full-time
Bill described his role as,
Bill把他的角色描述为
the process by driving debate."
打造原型,以能够
to build prototypes so that they could
and discover for themselves
of their particular approach."
their prototype with the group
to go off in the middle of the night
with the website,
limitations of their particular design.
became more urgent
evidence, began to come in,
that the Big Table solution
they did not lose the learning
to join a new team that was emerging
加入这个新的,正在成长的队伍,
all working at breakneck speed.
其中一位工程师找到Bill说
engineers had gone to Bill and said,
for this inefficient system
这个没有效率的体制上
he began to understand
他开始理解
people to play out their passions.
充分释放激情的智慧了。
to all be on one team,
“如果你强迫我们全部组成一队,
who was right, and winning,
what was the best answer for Google."
Google而言最好的答案。”
are able to innovate time and again?
可以不断进行创新呢?
the capabilities required for that.
这一过程所需要的能力。
collaborative problem solving,
discovery-driven learning
integrated decision making.
and saying to yourselves right now,
those things in my organization.
实现这个过程。
do those things at Pixar,
如何做到这一点呢,
do those things at Google?"
that worked for Bill told us,
of the finest leaders in Silicon Valley,
Bill是在硅谷最好的领导者之一,
the man is a genius.
when we think about great leadership.
伟大的领导能力。
early on said to me,
(Laughter)
(笑声)
I'm supposed to create a vision.
that's truly new, I have no answers.
我没有答案。
direction we're going in
how to figure out how to get there."
when visionary leadership
that can innovate time and again,
可以不断创新的组织,
of what leadership is about.
什么是领导能力的认识。
creating the space
and able to do the hard work
may be wondering,
really look like?"
that innovation takes a village.
他们知道创新需要集体的力量。
a sense of community
is about creating a world
want to belong in at Pixar?
置身于一个什么样的世界呢?
living at the frontier.
their time thinking about,
the sensibility of a public square
no matter what their level or role,
抛开他们的级别或角色,
about a particular film.
minority voices in this organization,
所有少数人的
in a very generous way."
at the credits of a Pixar movie,
一部Pixar电影片尾的贡献者列表,
a production are listed there.
所有婴儿都被列出来了。
what his role was?
a volunteer organization.
to follow me anywhere.
with me the future.
就不断地在后方鼓励他们,
I'm a human glue,
我是一个人类胶水,
I'm an aggregator of viewpoints.
我是一个观点的聚集者。
自己角色的忠告吗?
deliberately fuzzy and vague.
be wondering now,
I'm the social architect.
我是一个社会建筑师。
people are willing and able
让那里人们想要并且能够
their talents and passions."
that you don't work at a Pixar,
在担心你们没有在Pixar上班,
organizations you'd think of
in a pharmaceutical company
总法律顾问,
to get the outside lawyers,
to collaborate and innovate.
at a German automaker
营销总管,
that it was the design engineers,
who were allowed to be innovative.
而并不是市场销售者。
at HCL Technologies,
一个印度外包公司任职的
words, to become irrelevant.
他的公司正在变得无关紧要。
into a global dynamo of I.T. innovation.
IT创新领域的全球引领者。
like at many companies,
their role as setting direction
把自己当做设置方向的角色,
no one deviated from it.
it was time for them
what they were supposed to do.
is that everybody was looking up
依据上层的决策而行动,
the kind of bottom-up innovation
stopped trying to provide solutions.
不再尝试去给出解决方案。
is they began to see
pyramid, the young sparks,
closest to the customers,
the organization's growth
about inverting the pyramid
这是关于颠倒金字塔,
the power of the many
and the speed of innovation
other leaders that we studied
我们研究过的领导者们,
that that was not their role.
that many of you did not recognize Ed.
许多人没有认出Ed不是偶然。
that our role as leaders
我们作为领导者的角色
many of us are here,
许多人在这里的原因,
of collective genius.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Linda Hill - Management professorLinda Hill studies collective genius -- the way great companies, and great leaders, empower creativity from many.
Why you should listen
Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. In 2014, Professor Hill co-authored Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation. It features thick descriptions of exceptional leaders of innovation in a wide range of industries—from information technology to law to design—and geographies—from the US and Europe to the Middle East and Asia. Business Insider named Collective Genius one of “The 20 Best Business Books” in summer 2014.
She is the faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative and has chaired numerous HBS Executive Education programs, including the Young She is the co-author, with Kent Lineback, of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives of Becoming a Great Leader and Breakthrough Leadership, a blended cohort-based program that helps organizations transform midlevel managers into more effective leaders. Breakthrough Leadership was the winner of the 2013 Brandon Hall Group Award for Best Advance in Unique Learning Technology. The book was included in the Wall Street Journal as one of the “Five Business Books to Read for Your Career in 2011." She is also the author of Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership (2nd Edition). She heads up Harvard's Presidents' Organization Presidents' Seminar and the High Potentials Leadership Program, and was course head during the development of the new Leadership and Organizational Behavior MBA required course.
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