Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

People in the business world are increasingly turning their attention to mental training practices associated with mindfulness — and for good reason. Consider combining live, in-person or virtual training with apps for optimal behavior formation. Develop mental agility. Compartmentalize your cognitive load.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 19, 2017

The global marketplace requires businesses to establish highly integrated and cooperative relationships with one another. Therefore, steps will need to be continually taken within every business to become more agile in order to keep up with the demands of ecosystem partners and their customers. The game has changed.

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Self-aware Participative Bond Agility 150

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Cross-disciplinary training: On a regular basis have members of different departments lead instructional discussions on their particular specialty. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate. Reduced training time for new employees. Perspective – ability to see or sense the big picture, long-term thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As CEO of the TLEX Institute, Johann Berlin specializes in bringing mindfulness training to CEOs and corporate teams. But studies show that meditation training can help curb our tendency for distraction, strengthening our ability to stay focused and even boosting memory.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Playing with and/or against others helps train a range of game-theoretic skills: wisely choosing one’s actions based on anticipated competitive reactions over a multiple-period time horizon. From cooperation to competition, a game with multiplayer features taps into the rich culture of board games humans have been playing for centuries.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

We’ve been quite intentional about creating training curricula to reliably fill our pipeline, and as we’ve honed our methods, we’ve seen that improv principles are highly applicable to the corporate world. Ensemble, by contrast, implies cooperation, collaboration, and unconditional support.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

High-tech giant Adobe recently opened a striking new building in Lehi, Utah specifically designed to create an ecology of planned and unplanned cooperation and innovation among its employees. Whether they are limits on space, time, money or other resources, constraints can improve our agility and get our synapses firing at lightning speed.

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Constraint Innovation Ries Resources 11

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It’s the essence of agility. Why Agility is Important for Your Business. Agility is defined by McKinsey & Company as “… the ability of an organization to renew itself, adapt, change quickly, and thrive in an environment characterized by rapid change, ambiguity, and turbulence.”

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Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. Too often, leaders view such investments as costly training on things that seem to be “common sense” or issues they can afford to get around to later. This is a laudable response.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

Twenty-four medical teams from four neonatal intensive care units in Israel were invited to a training workshop designed to improve quality of care. Half the teams received messages from a neutral expert who spoke about the importance of training and practice using simulations but did not comment on their work quality. Amy Jen Su.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 7, 2015

Senator Mikulski felt this to be a very powerful tool to break down barriers to cooperation and to provide a common ground that will serve as the relational foundation for working together. One of the main things gained through established trust is a team’s improved agility.

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