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Resistance to Change is Cooperation for Improvement

Mike Cardus

While working, you perceive change on a continuum from cooperation and learning — to resistance and a pain in the ass. . Change happens, and the cooperation/resistance is what you learn from and look for to co-construct what makes change work to improve the organization’s and your viability in the market. .

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Conversations On The Circular Economy Shouldn’t Be Rose Tinted

The Horizons Tracker

Cooperation between nations and organizations is vital if society is to tackle the numerous global and systemic challenges it faces. Nowhere is this more evident than in the circular economy, but research from the University of Freiburg highlights how excessively optimistic narratives can undermine such cooperation. ” Two camps.

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Has lockdown improved your leadership thinking?

Lead Change Blog

Unfortunately, I rarely see leaders and managers looking up for a view of their direction and keeping busy, busy, busy! Our current health crisis provides an ideal opportunity, and yet I wonder how many leaders and managers are truly taking advantage of it or will continue with it, post-COVID? How productive is it? Does it add value?

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How to Prepare and Develop Future Leaders for Your Business

Chart Your Course

How a business is managed often decides if the company lives or dies. When good leadership is present, the team is more willing to cooperate and tackle difficult tasks. When good leadership is present, the team is more willing to cooperate and tackle difficult tasks. Constructive criticism is essential to learning and growth.

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How to Set the Conditions for Psychological Safety to Emerge

Mike Cardus

Openly share examples of failure or struggle, and share how the team helped you or how you learned a different way to manage or approach a situation. Recognize that a psychologically safe team will argue (with the manager and each other) and be “big enough” to listen and see this discussion and disagreement as a cooperation point.

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Call Them Opposites. Call Them Paradoxes. Just Manage Them.

Lead Change Blog

Many managers share his view. These organizations “get” the power of paradox —opposites, dualities, or polarities—and manage, in fact maximize, the differences inherent in paradox. Individuals practicing paradoxical leadership assure that conflict remains healthy and constructive. But our culture is worse than ever.

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You Might Be Practicing Band-Aid Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Cliff, the Development Team manager, just informed you the prototype will be delayed because Sam, the “trouble-making manager” of the Design Team, is refusing to play ball—again. You’re over Sam’s continued lack of cooperation. Finally, Sam simply lacked the skillset to manage these issues (people).