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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

So commonplace is it that growing businesses have to adapt to the changing environment that the “pivot” has become a part of entrepreneurial lore. The research reveals that businesses established in dynamic environments tend to have a longer survival rate when their founding teams exhibit greater functional diversity.

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Team Dialog: Environment Matters

Persuasive Powerhouse

So if your intent is to engage your team and/or have great dialog, consider the following: The Physical Environment The room should not be too large or too small: A room that is too large can often suck energy – and sound – away from the discussion. What else have you noticed about the environment that promotes team dialog?

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Getting Leaders to Change

Great Leadership By Dan

Modest leaders see fiscal and operational constraints as safeguards—not hindrances. Great leaders work hard to bend over backward for honesty as they realize truth and honesty are the pillars upon which relationships, teamwork, and positive energy are built. However, it is not nearly as fine as we think.

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How to Select a CEO for the Collaboration Economy

LDRLB

We will not solve our global water, energy, or food challenges in the next three to five years. At best, an unethical CEO only saps employees’ energy. The ethical CEO’s company is more likely to operate with little to hide. A new environment. Does the CEO prefer to maximize her legacy or her ego? By a competitor.

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Trust Busters in Mergers and Acquisitions

Coaching Tip

Mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") are on the rise in 2011, and industry analysts now predict more than $3 trillion in global M&A activity for the year. An us-against-them mentality ensues and workers withhold the very talent and energy required for success. . Are business units operating in silos?

Energy 95
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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

According to the US Department of Education, the number of computer science degrees peaked at 37 percent between 1984 and 1985 compared to only 18 percent in the period between 2008 and 2011. Martine is also founder the Women Initiative Foundation (WIF) , in coordination with global energy player and expert operator ENGIE.

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OODA – And it is not a type-o : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2.

CO2

The idea is that when moving to action you first observe the battlefield or what ever areana you are operating in. Boyd saw this as a group of interacting loops that are in continous operation until the end of the battle. He also believed that the level of energy in each loop depended on which phase you were in during the combat.