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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Perhaps most importantly for leaders, good conflict resolution ability equals good employee retention.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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Views from the Top - Wisdom from 15 Past US Presidents

Building Personal Strength

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.&# - Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) On COOPERATION - “The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.&# - Dwight D. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate.

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How the World’s Oldest Company Reinvented Itself

Harvard Business Review

By 2011 the pulp and paper giant — the world’s oldest corporation, dating back to 1288 — had laid off over one-third of its 30,000 employees. ” Among a number of initiatives to kindle the transformation, Stora Enso took a novel approach to change management. Since 2011 the share price has more than doubled.

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How to Pick a Co-Founder

Harvard Business Review

A common tactical error here is for a product- or technology-focused entrepreneur to look for someone with top shelf management consulting experience: it's not a bad instinct, since management consultants are polished and smart, but they rarely have core executive chops apart from project management or some general "operations" background.

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