Linda Hill

Linda Hill

Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

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Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is a founding partner of Paradox Strategies (www.paradoxstrategies.com), a consulting firm. She is also the faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative and a former faculty chair of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School

Hill is the co-author of Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation, Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives of Becoming a Great Leader, and Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership.

3 imperatives for leaders in the time of coronavirus
Join Big Think's co-founder and president Peter Hopkins in conversation with Professor Linda Hill on what it takes to be a boss during COVID-19.
Hire Hard So You Can Manage Easy
Linda Hill: I think it’s very important to understand how people are going to respond when they actually are stressed or when they don’t know something. 
Life Isn’t Fair. Life is about Who You Know.
It's only natural that people are only going to give interesting and important high-stakes work to people they know and people they trust. 
You Need to Build Your Own Personal Board of Directors
No one learns to do their jobs in school.  You learn your job through experience and through your relationships at work.
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How to Manage Your Network
Are you cultivating the critical relationships at work?