Beware the Lone Genius

Stanford Social Innovation ReviewVol. 3 Nbr. 3, October 2005

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Innovation in organizations is fundamentally a collaborative effort, says Mohan Subramaniam of Boston College's Carroll School of Management. He and Mark A. Youndt of Skidmore College have found that smart employees alone don't promote positive change, but smart employees who work well together do. Indeed, they show that lone geniuses can actually put the kibosh on creative growth. Intellectual capital, or the knowledge resources of an organization, is known to be linked to an organization's ability to innovate.

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Beware the Lone Genius

In the open-minded work environment of the Liberty Hill Foundation, a Los Angeles County social justice organization, even workaday staff meetings are imaginative. Ideas often pop...

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