---
id: "quote-innovation-central-to-strategy"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["¶1"]
tags: ["strategy", "inclusion"]
related: ["concept-collective-genius", "framework-abcs-leadership"]
speakers: ["Linda A. Hill"]
speaker: "Linda A. Hill"
sources: ["tail2"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-tail2"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-tail-125-innovative-leader"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/05/what-makes-an-innovative-leader"
sourceTitle: "What Makes an Innovative Leader?"
---
# Innovation as central strategy demands new leadership

> "As innovation becomes central to strategy, leaders must move from communicating a vision to co-creating the future alongside their teams. This shift calls for a different kind of leadership—one that fosters inclusion, experimentation, and collective genius."
> — [[entity-linda-a-hill|Linda A. Hill]]

This quote establishes the prerequisite *condition* for the leadership shift: the elevation of innovation to the core of organizational strategy, which in turn demands inclusion and experimentation. It names three of the vault's load-bearing ideas — inclusion, experimentation, and [[concept-collective-genius|collective genius]] — and motivates the [[framework-abcs-leadership|ABCs framework]].