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Teams That Work

Leading Blog

The authors say three components characterize effective teams : Sustained Performance (are able to generate positive results over time), Team Resilience (can work through challenges and can quickly bounce back from adversity), and Vitality (can maintain the energy, vibrancy, and resources needed for future success). Cooperation.

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

Donald Cooper ( Business Management Consultant & Speaker ) There is no ‘#1 leadership competency’ that on it’s own will make a successful leader. That requires the humility to remain open to learning from others and to seek diverse opinions. They can be learned, absorbed, honed. Leaders are learners.

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Soundtrack to Success: The Role of Music in Enhancing Workplace Productivity

HR Digest

Suddenly, your mood lifts, your focus sharpens, and you find yourself humming along as you tackle your work with renewed energy. For example, music that is linear and consistent, without dominant vocals or changing rhythm patterns, is best for concentration. But then, a familiar tune starts playing softly in the background.

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How Masculinity Contests Undermine Organizations, and What to Do About It

Harvard Business Review

For example, Susan Fowler’s 2017 blog about Uber detailed not only her recollections of being repeatedly harassed, but what she described as a “game-of-thrones” environment, in which managers sought to one-up and sabotage colleagues to get ahead. Organizations rely on cooperative teamwork to succeed.

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Teams Can’t Innovate If They’re Too Comfortable

Harvard Business Review

Funded by grant money and generous donors, with the luxury of inviting people to sit around on a grassy lawn for a whole weekend, you might think it’s easy for them to spark such conversations, to find such a diverse array of interesting people. We believe strongly in diversity for a few reasons. But this goes beyond gender, of course.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

The right kind of shared minibuses, with Wi-Fi, folding work desks, and privacy screens or headrests, could work for business commuters, for example, while families with children and elderly or disabled riders would be more likely to take flexible vehicles with easy entry, generous storage space, and seats that can be reconfigured.

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How an Ecosystem Mindset Can Help People and Organizations Succeed

Harvard Business Review

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. Let’s look at GE as an example. They named it A Better San Francisco. Build new connections.