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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. Closing gaps becomes much easier when you can position differences as non-adversarial and operate within a framework of trust. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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

N2Growth Blog

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? 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

They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation. Understanding how to lead and motivate groups and teams should not be considered one in the same with creating false perceptions of equality that don’t exist ( Bonus Post : CEOs and Team Building ).

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The End of Banks as We Know Them?

Harvard Business Review

It is something I call community financing. Community financing refers to a form of cash-flow that channels the financial resources of the savers of a community into the well-being of that community via economic activities, which members of the community believe should be undertaken and therefore willingly supports with their savings.

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The End of Banks as We Know Them?

Harvard Business Review

It is something I call community financing. Community financing refers to a form of cash-flow that channels the financial resources of the savers of a community into the well-being of that community via economic activities, which members of the community believe should be undertaken and therefore willingly supports with their savings.

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Managing the Double-Edged Sword of Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

Listen to the words of a finance manager in a large consumer products company, whose efforts to improve his business team's profit margins were repeatedly undercut by people in the sales department: "I learned that pricing for one of our key accounts has already been confirmed to the customer, without any prior approval or review. [.]

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How to Pick a Co-Founder

Harvard Business Review

Different operational skills. If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. Easy familiarity helps conversations move quickly and allows trustworthy cooperation. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011. Similar work habits.

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