What it takes to build “genius at scale”

That elusive Eureka moment: Every leader strives for it—but it can’t be forced. And as Harvard Business School Professor Linda Hill argues in her new book Genius at Scale: How Great Leaders Drive Innovation (store.hbr.org/product/genius-at-scale-how-grea…) (Harvard Business Publishing, March 2026), innovation is less about a flash of insight than about creating the conditions for breakthrough ideas to take hold and scale. In this episode of McKinsey Talks Talent (preview.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-o…), Hill speaks with McKinsey leaders and talent experts Brooke Weddle (preview.mckinsey.com/our-people/brooke-weddle) and Bryan Hancock (preview.mckinsey.com/our-people/bryan-hancock), along with Global Editorial Director Lucia Rahilly, about the roles and capabilities that successful innovators share—and about how to create a culture that encourages everyone to undertake the hard, risky work of innovation to drive organizational performance.
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