Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Ibarra Herminia

Author:Ibarra, Herminia [Ibarra, Herminia]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 2015-01-20T05:00:00+00:00

Cultivate a Connected Mind

Riffing on Pasteur’s famous dictum that “chance favors the prepared mind,” Steven Johnson, innovation historian and author of Where Good Ideas Come From, concludes that “chance favors the connected mind.”26 Examining the creative process of legendary innovators like Benjamin Franklin and Charles Darwin, Johnson found that behind every great thinker, there is a diverse, connected, and dynamic network. “This is not the wisdom of the crowd,” he says, “but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.”

As we have seen, when aspiring leaders fail to recognize networking as one of the most important requirements of their new job, they will not allocate enough time and effort to networking to see it pay off. But the only way to understand that networking is a key source of outsight for your leadership transition is to try it and thus discover it for yourself. For a quick start on this step, see the sidebar “Getting Started: Experiments with Your Network.”

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