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Teamwork: Sharing the Blame! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

So, when I hear the saying “ teamwork is never having to take all the blame yourself ” I know the stress being put on the team is in the red zone. By Sylvia Lafair Now that the old model of command and control is out the window and team collaboration is the norm what has really changed when things go wrong?

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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

Team dynamics The study surveyed over 140,000 alumni from Stanford University, resulting in a dataset of more than 1,000 entrepreneurs who founded ventures across 19 industries from 1960 to 2011, ranging from agriculture to energy and utilities.

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Don't believe your own hype

Roundtable Talk

It doesn’t matter if you’re in HR, finance, IT, marketing… these new buddies will be everywhere. If you’re heading up any team that makes big purchase decisions, chances are you have vendors who are treating you like long-lost cousins. And, if you’re running an organization that has multiple interests, watch out.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

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What Happened to Goldman Sachs?

Harvard Business Review

Smith wrote that the culture at Goldman had shifted during his 12 years there from valuing teamwork and "always doing right by clients" to one where people "callously. In 2011 — a bad year for trading — investment banking generated just $4.6 And what's wrong with being a muppet ? talk about ripping customers off."

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