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Linda Hill
Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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.
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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.
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.
No one learns to do their jobs in school. You learn your job through experience and through your relationships at work.