You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Leaders who operate from a platform of good manners and civility know that: Everyone likes to feel acknowledged and important I started my work life in the mailroom of a bank. Two is, that the wider our span of authority gets, the more we need the support, cooperation, ideas and good will of others to be successful.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

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. Nobody can truly understand the ecosystem they operate in without getting out and wading in it.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

To achieve its goals and remain competitive, the organization must maximize on the capability and knowledge of its people. Performance assessment is a cooperative thing In order for a performance assessment to be effective, both the leader and the individual must participate. So, what to do? This is as it should be. A conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

And, of course, many of the people who operate inside a group do not actually share the values espoused as belonging to the organizational culture. By using the culture concept, we tend to artificially ossify the diverse, complex, and constantly changing social environment that is any organization.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In other words, what produces complexity is not so much the presence of many direct cause-effect links which operate with subtlety versus precision, but rather the presence of indirect, non-linear relationships between the variables, parts, and dimensions of the whole. Their promised utility seems beyond doubt: they do reduce complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

They also believe that innovation will help them achieve these lofty goals — and they''re investing accordingly. Mobile operator giffgaff''s customers discover, evaluate, buy, and get support online and in social forums — the direct result of a cost structure that includes only a handful of employees.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The perception is that getting along with people is nice, but “nice-to-have” — secondary to the operation of the business. But most books on this topic focus on mentoring and executive coaching, not skills for operational leaders. They aren’t about computers, vehicles, machines and other “hard” equipment.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? It’s what you rely on to win over the skeptics.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

The virtual distance model is made up of three factors: physical distance, operational distance, and affinity distance. Cooperative and helping behaviors go down by over 80%. Role and goal clarity decline by 75%. Physical distance is essentially geographic distance. Trust declines by over 80%. Project success drops by over 50%.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. The BRIDGE that failed for Gap Makers #2, 3, and 4 : Company-Wide Coordination and Cooperation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Whether you are working in a large corporation with a presence in all the major markets or you're an owner operator with a single website, it is likely that your communications will reach people from a wide variety of cultural origins. If you are in business, then you are in a global business.

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Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

Instead of operating top-down, power is distributed throughout the organization, giving individuals and teams more freedom to self-manage, while staying aligned to the organization’s purpose. However, each circle has the authority to self-organize internally to best achieve its goals. Cooperatives. Key Elements of Cooperatives.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

innovation system, we ran an exercise matching Arabic first names with international patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). especially those with R&D operations. To shed more light on Arab contributions to the U.S. This data includes patents by people residing in the U.S. and around the world.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets. At HCL Technologies, and India-based IT company, the corporate culture springs at least partly from a broader Asian idea of cooperative action. GE and HCL.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

So it's not surprising that we received a striking diversity of entries from every kind of organization and from every corner of the world. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. The Mondragon Cooperative Experience: Humanity at Work.

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