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The Growing Power of Women in Business

Women on Business

Hewlett-Packard, another technology company, named Meg Whitman as their CEO in September 2011. So the shift in business from informing to communicating provides great opportunity for women leadership. In the past, business was about cooperation, and we cooperated because we had to. Men are great at cooperating.

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Mars Incorporated: A Sweet Place to Work

Coaching Tip

According to a regulatory filing for 2011 in the State of Delaware, where Mars is incorporated, there are six members, all grandchildren or great-grandchildren of Frank Mars. Women's Leadership in Canada. The "Five Principles of Mars": quality, responsibility, mutuality, efficiency, freedom. Source: FORTUNE, February 4, 2013. ?

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Collaboration & Six Ways to Make It Work

You're Not the Boss of Me

But of course we all know that ‘simple’ does not always equate to ‘easy’ This post, from 2011, takes a look at how we might create a working environment that helps to make collaboration possible…and also productive. =. It was then I began to think about collaboration and what it means.

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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. Rather than handpick the usual senior managers, a team called Pathbuilder was formed of a diverse group of insiders to present senior leaders with new ideas.

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How to Pick a Co-Founder

Harvard Business Review

Diversity on your founding team will give you strength. Easy familiarity helps conversations move quickly and allows trustworthy cooperation. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011. Different operational skills. This does not mean you need to work with your best friend of many years.

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

Strategy Driven

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. The BRIDGE that failed for Gap Makers #2, 3, and 4 : Company-Wide Coordination and Cooperation.