Mike Cardus
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
For that loop to exist the Cooperation Loop must also exist. The cooperation loop is a mindset of working to find cooperation …any size large and small and develop practice of building from that cooperation. Seems like we have some cooperation. We created cooperation work teams. We know the Resistance Loop.
Mills Scofield
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.
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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. The former CFO did not go quietly.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2011
As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. Getting the CFO on board is key. CFO Tim Olson of ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, went through a similar conversion. Then I became an advocate. Now I know that.".
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process. CFO Ric Magnuson says that the change has forced managers to develop a much better understanding of the work in their departments, particularly which activities truly matter.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
This had been suggested in past negotiations, but Alan had always managed to persuade the others that a cooperative stance was better than a confrontational one. "I The company's previous CFO had been good at tempering her aggressive approach, but he'd recently left for a job on the East Coast and hadn't yet been replaced.
Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 9, 2017
In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck helps readers get back to basics—explaining that we’re in business to make a profit (which can help us do good things). On election day we need to show our good side, our good character, and do some good in our communities.” ” Follow Jon on Twitter at @thindifference.
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