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What Information Helps Us To Cooperate?

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Cambridge Judge Business School explores how we can best encourage others to cooperate with us. Some will inevitably cooperate while others will attempt to free-load. To add further spice to proceedings, participants were placed in a couple of conditions to see if that affected their willingness to cooperate.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post.

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Scaling Leadership

Leading Blog

T HE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE of leading in an increasingly complex world is that we will have developmental gaps in our leadership. In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face.

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Why Having Full Autonomy At Work Might Not Be All That

The Horizons Tracker

Generally speaking, the consensus is that autonomy is highly motivational. They highlight how famous exemplars of decentralized leadership, such as Zappos and Oticon, have generally failed to deliver results and employees have requested a return to some form of hierarchy again with managers providing invaluable support.

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Six Things Great Leadership Teams Do

Great Leadership By Dan

Chris Edmonds : When I consult with executives on crafting a high performance, values-aligned culture, one of the first things I do is to examine the effectiveness of their leadership team. Whatever that team is called - an executive team, a leadership team, a management team, etc. Most leadership teams I observe are not teams at all.

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We Want Risk-Taking Leaders In Competitive Situations

The Horizons Tracker

As before, people were asked if they would support that person as a leader or not, but this time the question was framed by circumstances that were either competitive or cooperative. This wasn’t the case in more cooperative settings, where prestige was a more accurate predictor of support than dominance was. Gender differences.

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Developing Intentional Cultures Isn’t Easy

The Horizons Tracker

They analyzed around 70 previous studies into culture creation and found that there was no real consensus on whether one can intentionally be created to underpin strategic goals. And a leader can’t create a culture without their cooperation. Culture creation.