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How Criticizing in Private Undermines Your Team

Harvard Business Review

You are holding your weekly team leadership meeting. Is your leadership team a real team — one in which members are interdependent with each other for meeting team goals? Leadership isn't about being comfortable; it's about being effective, even when you're uncomfortable.

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How Criticizing in Private Undermines Your Team

Harvard Business Review

You are holding your weekly team leadership meeting. Is your leadership team a real team — one in which members are interdependent with each other for meeting team goals? Leadership isn't about being comfortable; it's about being effective, even when you're uncomfortable.

Team 8
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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Only glimmers of what was to come showed up in the work of thinkers such as Adam Smith, with his insight that the division of labor would increase productivity. Along with the new means of production, organizations gained scale. The goal was to optimize the outputs that could be generated from a specific set of inputs.

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What I Learned About Coaching After Losing the Ability to Speak

Harvard Business Review

I’ll describe those and share some practical guidelines so that others can reap them in a variety of coaching contexts — from leadership development to organizational consulting to professional mentoring — even if they aren’t similarly constrained by a handicap. When he finished unloading, he was ready to get to work.

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What I Learned from My TED Talk

Harvard Business Review

Our goal today is to learn our way into the future. We can also see a counterexample in the less productive response of RIM. And to a degree, I believe that a lot of what many of us are taught is tied to this notion of perfection, and that it can warp our ability to keep sight of our goals.