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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Make senior leaders responsible for some business development and ongoing customer service. Link part of their compensation to new business or development success. Regularly get everyone in your organization out to see customers. Don’t allow managers to cost cut their way to profit and performance bonuses.

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The attack of the Yabuts!

Strategy Driven

1 killer of collaboration, cooperation, great ideas and innovation in organizations. Stephen is a recently promoted Director in the Business Development division of a large financial services company. Nothing sucks the blood out of a great idea faster than the dreaded “ Yabut… ” In fact, the “ Yabut ” may be the No.

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Where Do They Go To Get Business Advice?

Strategy Driven

The Better Business Bureau. Small Business Development Center. Consortiums of business. Cross-industry cooperative initiatives. People with whom you work in community and charity leadership roles. Boards of directors. Trade industry groups. Associations. Political action committees. Community alliances.

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What Women Leaders Bring to the New Decade :: Women on Business

Women on Business

We are here to cooperate with them in a new and more productive way. It includes men, invites men as partners to rethink what we are doing to the planet, why we continue to put work ahead of family, ahead of raising the next generation, how much is enough, what really matters. We are not here to become like our men.

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Leadership and a Cup of Tea :: Women on Business

Women on Business

The Vietnamese name for teacher is Thay, and that moment of having “Tea with Thay” is still comforting when the business of the day begins to overtake me. Leadership is about being a model of behaving in ways that create cooperation and collaboration. We can all learn from each other while waiting for spring.

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Great Leadership: a Lot of This and That

Persuasive Powerhouse

Collaboration is necessary to get buy in and cooperation. Involving others in decisions and working together toward goals and objectives are an imperative. Yet there are many times when you must act independently and make final decisions on your own. Independence is often required to make final decisions.

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Teams That Only Think They Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

For a top management group, it might be the requirement to reduce overall expenses or headcount by 20%; for a sales or business development team, the goal might be to increase revenues by 10% in the next quarter; and for a product development team the focus could be on accelerating a market launch by two months.

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