Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This blog post is the first of a two-part series on transformational growth and disruptive change by my dear friend Mark Thompson for the AMA (American Management Association). World Bank: Diversity and inclusion as a sustainable competitive advantage. Recruit all the same people to the project? Dear readers! Not likely.

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Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

Holacracy is a way of structuring and running organizations that replaces the conventional management hierarchy. 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. Cooperatives.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The early church was a diverse group. We would never, ever treat anyone we love like a project or an agenda. They are not projects. We like to look at people as projects. We shower charity on someone because they’re a project we’re working on. We’ve got to stop looking at people as projects.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 21, 2013

And the American Management Association reports that 60% of executives listed lack of collaboration as one of their top leadership challenges. So what can teachers (or managers) do to change this and improve their workplace culture? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

Setting aside social, political, and moral reasons for encouraging a more diverse workplace, there is arguably no better incentive for promoting diversity than the premise that diverse teams and organizations are more creative. The conflicts arising from diversity can be mitigated if teams are effectively led.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

Thorough market research will always lead you towards a realization of your consumer behaviour, customer base, and diverse economic trends. Mentioning the entire marketing and sales strategy with its amendments, financial projections, procedures of retaining customers. Cooperatives. Choose Your Business Structure Wisely.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 27, 2015

When you bring them together and manage the blend, the entire picture comes into focus and suddenly you can act on things the way neither side could have separately. You get exponential results. Destroy the Dislike: When you respect each other and act like friends, you can talk openly and have fun.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But we have come to tolerate the illusion that the essential matters of work can be invented, managed, and sustained through the creation, storage, retrieval, display, and publication of information. What was invented as a means to replace the post office has now become the most common management tool in organizations.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It is still common for most managers to refer to people skills as “soft skills,” because they aren’t specifically about the business of the organization. But he aggregated people skills, managing emotions, personality and character traits into a single area of competence, further confusing the issue. And that's not all.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Terri Cooper, Principal & Chief Inclusion Officer, Deloitte Consulting LLP. I’m Angelia Herrin, Editor for Special Projects and Research at HBR. Today, we’re talking with Dr. Terri Cooper, the Global Sector Leader for healthcare and the US national chief inclusion leader for Deloitte. Terri Cooper, Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Instead, they sought to reenergize and leverage their own people, but, Karvinen explained, “We also did not just want to handpick the usual senior managers we had always worked with before, because we knew that, in order to drive the transformation of the company, we needed new and fresh perspectives.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This mismanagement of innovation is further exacerbated by the fact that managing creatives tend to require special attention and consideration. Just try managing a team full of creatives and you will see that very little gets done. Yet such leaders are rarely more creative, even when they manage to come across as innovative to others.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Mapping out detailed project plans? Although many upper-level managers don't do these things enough, by far and away the single-most shirked responsibility of executives is holding people accountable. It holds up for C-level executives compared to directors and middle managers. Seeing the big picture? Delegating?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The idea started with two Janssen employees, Annick Daems and Enrique Esteban, who were spearheading an initiative to increase the company’s diversity of thought and experience. But that would require an ambitious new project. Three years in, Immersion’s projects are quietly gaining traction. They overcame short-term thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. 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. It's not enough to change one company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2012

When CNN reporter Anderson Cooper recently announced that he's gay , making him the most famous out newsman in the country, it generated enormous media attention — and praise. By coming out in a friendly venue (Sullivan is also gay), Cooper assured himself a receptive hearing. How about your boss?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2014

These developments unraveled the projected confidence of leading physicians and officials of the Center for Disease Control that the disease was a low-risk threat to our country with its advanced medical systems. The struggle of the old management model is playing out before our very eyes. We shouldn’t be surprised. That’s important.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

With this focus, impression management can take precedence over learning and teaming. They feel a sense of shared fate that fosters the development of trusting, cooperative relationships. Frame the challenge ahead (the work, the initiative, the project) as something in need of diverse perspectives and skills.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Diversity on your founding team will give you strength. Easy familiarity helps conversations move quickly and allows trustworthy cooperation. Even after all the many other pieces of the puzzle come together, it is essential that your partner's main motivations for joining your venture include a passion for the project you are pursuing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

How tools are changing the way we manage, learn, and get things done. Cooperative and helping behaviors go down by over 80%. Project success drops by over 50%. And isolates among isolates do not collaborate, instead they simply comply with management edicts. Insight Center. The Future of Collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Other telecoms are offering solutions such as smart parking and waste management systems. In other cases, smart city projects present opportunities to generate advertising revenue and branding. Automakers are adding new options to their vehicle portfolios for smart urban mobility.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Most workplaces face constant imperatives for change—from trivial-seeming matters such as installing new office printers to major ones such as implementing new policies to support diversity. Consider Brian Welle, a Google manager who needed to roll out a huge initiative to tackle the problem of unconscious bias in the workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

Like any manager keen to maximize the potential of a great employee, Mark went out of his way to learn more about Jennifer. In the work on diversity and innovation we have conducted over recent years, we came to understand some of the keys of tribal thinking, and how some companies are successfully leveraging it.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree™ and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. Managers, by default, see “band-aid surgery” as the only remedy for problems… but only when problems are so evident as to require action.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives. The BRIDGE that failed for Gap Makers #2, 3, and 4 : Company-Wide Coordination and Cooperation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

The soil’s goal is to become a place where diverse seeds can contribute and succeed. As I am gay, it was very disheartening that these employees who are trained in diversity and acceptance acted both unprofessionally and impolite. When I was pregnant, I told my manager at 11 weeks. Understanding Bias. He was exasperated.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. Retention of decisions and “ah-ha moments” is critical when it comes to achieving real change in behavior and alignment of action across diverse perspectives. In workplaces as diverse as most are today, this is pretty important. Amy Jen Su. Kevin Kniffin.

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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). The management of R&D projects will become more difficult and less efficient as the movement of personnel between firms’ U.S. and around the world.

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