# Forget the pecking order at work

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDWomen 2015
- Speaker: Margaret Heffernan
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_forget_the_pecking_order_at_work)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Organizations are often run according to "the superchicken model," where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn't what drives the most high-achieving teams. Business leader Margaret Heffernan observes that it is social cohesion — built every coffee break, every time one team member asks another for help — that leads over time to great results. It's a radical rethink of what drives us to do our best work, and what it means to be a leader. Because as Heffernan points out: "Companies don't have ideas. Only people do."

## Lectures

1. [Forget the pecking order at work](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/margaret_heffernan_forget_the_pecking_order_at_work/dc3605b4a193), 16 min (TED's player)