N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation. You deserve input – but that done not mean that 100% agreement is the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Early in my career, when sharing a vacation house with a group of friends, I learned an important lesson from a classic book by anthropologist Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger : It takes a lot of people cooperating to keep things neat, but it takes only one disgruntled dirt-monger to mess things up. Don't adopt an angry tone.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Leaders who operate from a platform of good manners and civility know that: Everyone likes to feel acknowledged and important I started my work life in the mailroom of a bank. Two is, that the wider our span of authority gets, the more we need the support, cooperation, ideas and good will of others to be successful.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

Overnight, his career came to a complete standstill. They devised a plan for homeless encampments that would operate more like cooperatives, and would include case managers, vocational schools, showers, wifi, a dining hall, and wellness programming while operating at a profit. They named it A Better San Francisco.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Collaboration is a way of working that attracts and involves people outside one’s formal control, organization, and expertise to accomplish common goals. For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

To achieve its goals and remain competitive, the organization must maximize on the capability and knowledge of its people. Performance assessment is a cooperative thing In order for a performance assessment to be effective, both the leader and the individual must participate. So, what to do? This is as it should be. A conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

"Every manager has a P&L that he or she is responsible for," he says, "and while we don''t make sharing rooms a hard and fast rule, it''s our sense that when people have their own budgets and ownership for their profits, they''ll continue to operate that way.". It Can Be Good for Business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

It’s simply not possible to work 90 hours a week and see to your own basic needs – much less support someone else’s career. It’s akin to winning a pie-eating contest where the prize is more pie,” observed a law firm associate , rejecting law firm partnership as a goal. This creates a big gap between older men and their protégés.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Since 2006 the university had been subtracting points from all exam scores, then adding up to 20 points to those of male applicants, with the explicit goal of reducing the percentage of women entering medical school. The percentage of enrollees who were women had reached 40% in 2010, and now stands at approximately 30%.).

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The goal in business is to bring in more money than you spend over the long run. To do that, you need to obtain the cooperation, support, and goodwill of many people. Expect your staff to work at their career, not at their job. Managing my practice and managing my clients are similar. Value loyalty and fidelity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Avoid numerical goals. This may be what’s driving newer generations to look for “purposeful work” as they launch their careers: They are looking to take control by demanding meaning from work right from day one. Eliminate exhortations for the work force; instead, focus on the system and morale. Eliminate MBO.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications. These experts are highly briefed on the purpose and goals of the SU organization. Indeed, McAfee gained a first line of defense of loyal, committed experts cooperating in the viability of the platform.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. Greg Koch tells the story of how plant managers around the world have absorbed their connection to the communities in which they do business, and work hard to earn the "social license" to operate.

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