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

N2Growth Blog

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability.

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Getting On The Right Side Of The Team

Strategy Driven

The business is also the people who make it and the company culture that forms as a result of their interactions, their cooperation or lack thereof. You want people who are willing to invest energy, thought, and creativity into the business. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Develop your team.

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Definitions of these three terms will help to differentiate their intended objectives: Collaborations - Parties willingly cooperating together. Cooperation with an instrumentality with which one is not immediately connected. Involves close cooperation among parties, with each having specified and joint rights and responsibilities.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives. The BRIDGE that failed for Gap Makers #2, 3, and 4 : Company-Wide Coordination and Cooperation.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. In fact, few of us do.

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Congressional Judgment: Built to Lapse?

Harvard Business Review

The two of us have been thinking a lot in the past year about how some organizations manage to be decisive—and wise—consistently over time. And how about 23 short-term extensions of funding for the FAA since 2007—the latest one, passed yesterday, funding it for all of 3 weeks! It's a daunting list.