A guide to collaborative leadership | Lorna Davis

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🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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What's the difference between heroes and leaders? In this insightful talk, Lorna Davis explains how our idolization of heroes is holding us back from solving big problems -- and shows why we need "radical interdependence" to make real change happen.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features business leader Lorna Davis, recorded live at TED at BCG 2019.
0:09.6	It was a fantastic new pink suit with big buttons and shoulder pads.
0:18.1	It was 1997, and I was the new boss of Griffin's Foods, an iconic cookie and snacks company in New Zealand.
0:26.7	It was my first time as the leader of a company, and I was on the stage to give a big speech about our ambitious new goals.
0:35.2	I knew exactly what my call to action was, which was one and every four times,
0:40.2	a kiwi eats a snack, it'll be one of ours. I emphasized that we knew how to measure our results
0:46.9	and that our future was in our control. Embarrassingly enough, I finished up with if not this, what, if not us, who and if not now,
0:57.5	when.
0:59.6	I got this huge round of applause and I was really, really pleased with myself.
1:05.6	I wanted so much to be a good leader.
1:08.9	I wanted to be followed by a devoted team.
1:12.1	I wanted to be right.
1:14.5	In short, I wanted to be a hero.
1:17.8	A hero selling chips and biscuits in a pink suit.
1:24.7	What happened after that speech?
1:27.9	Nothing.
1:29.9	All of that applause did not lead to action.
1:33.3	Nothing changed.
1:34.7	Not because they didn't like me or the message.
1:37.6	The problem was that no one knew what they were expected to do.
1:40.9	And most importantly, they didn't know that I needed them. Now, you may
1:46.3	think that this is a classic hero speech where I'm going to tell you that I overcame that
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