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Herminia Ibarra

Where do the ideas in your organisation come from? And from whom? If you’re not taking advantage of new sources of inspiration - sources outside your organisation, outside the management suite - to facilitate growth and change, you could be in trouble.

Herminia Ibarra “Organisations that have been pioneers have found that their lunch is eaten by competitors that didn’t even exist a few years back,” says Herminia Ibarra, INSEAD Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning. “Change is always from the outside… if you want to innovate, if you want to be at the forefront of the trends, the only thing you can do is talk to people, to groups, to constituencies, to stakeholders outside your organisation.”

 

To read the full, original article click on this link: INSEAD Knowledge: Leadership - Connecting and Collaborating

Author: Shellie Karabell