Linda Hill: How to manage for collective creativity
ليندا هيل: كيفية قيادة الإبداع الجماعي
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to help people learn to lead.
think of as great leadership
بقيادة الإبتكار
to leading innovation.
in which I'm interested.
up close and personal
across the globe,
of hours on the ground,
and pages of field notes
for patterns in what our leaders did.
that can innovate time and again,
notions of leadership.
about creating a vision,
that is both new and useful.
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.
are really mainstream today,
colleagues nearly 20 years
full-length C.G. movie.
they've produced 14 movies.
and I'm here to tell you
about innovation, though,
having an 'Aha!' moment.
what it takes to make a Pixar movie:
produces one of those movies.
250 people four to five years,
drew a version of this picture.
was a neat series of steps
he thought it failed to really tell you
and, frankly, messy their process was.
at Pixar, the story evolves.
the challenges are
are working on a particular scene.
of chocolate to the bird,
almost six months to perfect.
is considered finished
an animator drew a character
suggested a mischievous side.
drawing, he thought it was great.
it doesn't fit the character."
came back and said,
was allowed to share
as his slice of genius,
reconceive the character
that really improved the story.
of innovation is a paradox.
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.
very exhilarating,
really downright scary.
that Pixar is able to do what it does,
what's going on here?
and certainly Hollywood,
that have failed.
cooks, if you will, in the kitchen.
with all of its cooks,
time and time again?
an Islamic Bank in Dubai,
or a social enterprise in Africa,
أو المشاريع الاجتماعية في أفريقيا،
have three capabilities:
agility and creative resolution.
والقرار الإبداعي
to create a marketplace of ideas
they amplify differences,
about brainstorming,
heated but constructive arguments
to actively listen, but guess what?
advocate for their point of view.
innovation rarely happens
diversity and conflict.
to test and refine that portfolio of ideas
على تجريب الأفكار وصقلها
reflection and adjustment.
والاستبصار والتكييف.
بالاكتشاف
your way to the future.
خلافًا للخطة.
you have that interesting combination
حيث يوجد ذلك المزيج الرائع
and the artistic process.
experiments, and not a series of pilots.
وليس مجموعة من المخططات.
نتيجة سلبية
that you need to know.
someone or something is to blame.
is creative resolution.
even opposing ideas
that is new and useful.
they never go along to get along.
تجد أن أفرادها
or one individual dominate,
even if it's the expert.
decision making process
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.
لم يكن ملائمًا
and the infrastructure group at that time
التحتية في ذلك الوقت
who he referred to as his brain trust,
الذي كان يسميه هيئة الخبراء،
about this situation.
to tackle this task,
to emerge spontaneously
as Build It From Scratch.
build on the current system.
that it was time for a whole new system.
were allowed to work full-time
Bill described his role as,
the process by driving debate."
to build prototypes so that they could
تجريبية ليتمكنوا من
and discover for themselves
of their particular approach."
their prototype with the group
نموذجها التجريبي مع المجموعة
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
all working at breakneck speed.
engineers had gone to Bill and said,
for this inefficient system
he began to understand
people to play out their passions.
to all be on one team,
who was right, and winning,
what was the best answer for Google."
الحل الأمثل لجوجل."
على الابتكار دائمًا؟
are able to innovate time and again?
the capabilities required for that.
collaborative problem solving,
discovery-driven learning
integrated decision making.
and saying to yourselves right now,
those things in my organization.
do those things at Pixar,
do those things at Google?"
that worked for Bill told us,
of the finest leaders in Silicon Valley,
في وادي السيليكون،
the man is a genius.
when we think about great leadership.
ببالنا عند التفكير بالقيادة.
early on said to me,
المتعلقة بالقيادة.
(ضحك)
(Laughter)
I'm supposed to create a vision.
that's truly new, I have no answers.
فلا أملك إجابات
direction we're going in
بالطريقة التي توصلني إليها."
how to figure out how to get there."
when visionary leadership
قادرة على الابتكار المستمر،
that can innovate time and again,
of what leadership is about.
creating the space
and able to do the hard work
may be wondering,
really look like?"
that innovation takes a village.
a sense of community
is about creating a world
الانتماء إليه في بيسكار؟
want to belong in at Pixar?
living at the frontier.
their time thinking about,
the sensibility of a public square
no matter what their level or role,
مهما كان منصبه ومستواه
about a particular film.
minority voices in this organization,
in a very generous way."
كريمة للغاية."
at the credits of a Pixar movie,
أحد أفلام بيكسار،
a production are listed there.
الانتاج مدرجون هناك.
what his role was?
a volunteer organization.
to follow me anywhere.
with me the future.
I'm a human glue,
I'm an aggregator of viewpoints.
deliberately fuzzy and vague.
be wondering now,
أنا المعماري الاجتماعي.
I'm the social architect.
people are willing and able
الناس مستعدين وقادرين
their talents and passions."
that you don't work at a Pixar,
قلق لعدم عمله مع بيسكار،
organizations you'd think of
in a pharmaceutical company
to get the outside lawyers,
لإقناع المحامين الخارجيين
to collaborate and innovate.
at a German automaker
that it was the design engineers,
who were allowed to be innovative.
at HCL Technologies,
شركة HCL Technologies،
words, to become irrelevant.
غير مفيدة حسب تعبيره.
into a global dynamo of I.T. innovation.
للابتكار في تقنية المعلومات.
like at many companies,
their role as setting direction
no one deviated from it.
it was time for them
what they were supposed to do.
is that everybody was looking up
the kind of bottom-up innovation
stopped trying to provide solutions.
is they began to see
pyramid, the young sparks,
closest to the customers,
the organization's growth
about inverting the pyramid
the power of the many
and the speed of innovation
other leaders that we studied
that that was not their role.
that many of you did not recognize Ed.
منكم على إد كان مصادفة.
أن دورنا بصفتنا قادة
that our role as leaders
many of us are here,
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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