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High-Trust Teams

Coaching Tip

Like all social animals, human beings have an instinctive need to cooperate and rely on each other to satisfy their most basic emotional, psychological, and material needs. The powerful effect of trust is that it enables cooperative behavior without costly and cumbersome monitoring and contracting. .

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Motivating Your Most Creative Employees

Harvard Business Review

Build a team around them: It’s been said that there are “no statues of committees,” but innovation is always the result of coordinated human activity — people combining their diverse abilities and interests to translate creative ideas into actual innovations.

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How the World’s Oldest Company Reinvented Itself

Harvard Business Review

Rather than handpick the usual senior managers, a team called Pathbuilder was formed of a diverse group of insiders to present senior leaders with new ideas. First, and most important, by relying on the self-nomination approach, the company tapped into the hidden energy, diversity, and skills of its employees.

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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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Rethinking Security for the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

From connected cars, iPhone-controlled locks (versions of which here, here, and here are in or close to production), to the hypothetical "smart fridge" that will one day order milk for me when I''ve run out, these technologies bring with them the promise of energy efficiency, convenience, and flexibility. Information & technology Internet'

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

Harvard Business Review

blaming subordinates for any failure), undermining cooperation, psychological safety, trust in coworkers, and the ability to admit uncertainty or mistakes. Organizations rely on cooperative teamwork to succeed. Dropping a diversity initiative onto these types of workplaces is unlikely to create meaningful change.

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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. Finally, Gopman began hosting meetings for a group of activists, civic workers, and homeless people.