Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve learned to allow her time to process questions and think through things — and I’ve adapted to providing written information in advance of calls. The variety adds depth, diversity and strength. In every case one team member proposed cooperation for the goal and once embraced by the team members, progress became easy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 15, 2018

Openness to diverse ideas and ability to encourage cooperation and collaboration. The process builds relationships and connections that strengthen any team. Ability to have authentic conversations that engage others and create a space where all can contribute their best talents and be honored for their contribution.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Peace is an active, dynamic, and generative process that requires healthy conflict. If peace means we are getting along, cooperating, and not hurting each other, then we can’t get there without addressing our differences and disagreements. Diversity was built into the universe from the beginning.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Our environment and social network undoubtedly play a significant role in our decision making, but the extent by which our social norms influence our behavior is illustrated by a new study from the University of York, which conducted a number of experiments across the world into the decision making processes of both adults and children.

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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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Center for Creative Leadership

MARCH 20, 2019

At the level where you don’t have direct reports — but serve as a role model or perhaps a leader of project teams — the responsibilities around innovation fall mainly into the realm of knowing how to generate creative solutions and having a keen interest in participating on a team made up of diverse participants.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Quotas are a common practice but often not the best way to build a talented and committed diverse staff. If a team’s allegiance is only to procedures, its members lose out on what really matters–the process and the people that make it work. Lack of diversity. Refusing to establish procedures. Undue emphasis on speed.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 27, 2015

As the extrovert polishes the bluntness, critical or condescending attitude of the introvert while the introvert begins to sensitively recognize the need for more warmth and tactful communication along with better team cooperation. The Process of Opposites Process.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 7, 2011

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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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

Ask employees -- while officially called "associates," they sometimes refer to themselves as Martians -- about a member of the Mars family, and you're about as likely to get a revealing answer as if you'd asked about the proprietary process in which they stamp "m" on the little colored candies. . roster of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

A vast body of research shows that the hiring process is biased and unfair. ” In the workplace, this “can stymie diversity, recruiting, promotion, and retention efforts.” ” In the workplace, this “can stymie diversity, recruiting, promotion, and retention efforts.” So where should you start?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Terri Cooper, Principal & Chief Inclusion Officer, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Today, we’re talking with Dr. Terri Cooper, the Global Sector Leader for healthcare and the US national chief inclusion leader for Deloitte. We’re discussing a new Deloitte report around leadership in a diverse new world.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Diversity and inclusion are key factors attracting and engaging the kind of workforce that will build your company’s future. Terri Cooper, Deloitte Consulting. Terri, diversity and inclusion have never been more relevant. Terri Cooper, Deloitte Consulting. Terri Cooper, Deloitte Consulting.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

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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HR Digest

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Instead, companies that aim to build an inclusive environment with the intention to see diversity in experience and perspective, thrive with unlimited potential and creativity in every domain. However, the Deloitte study also emphasizes the importance of diversity and inclusion. Arbitrary inclusion practices will only get you so far.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

However, organizations are often unable to put in place the right processes, leadership, and culture to turn creative ideas into actual innovations, which causes even their most creative employees to underperform. Yet, if organizations are pursuing innovation, they should in fact promote cognitive diversity amongst their teams.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Anderson Cooper. Now they’re joined by Apple CEO Tim Cook, who just announced that he’s “ proud to be gay ” and, in the process, became the first Fortune 500 CEO to come out. Cook’s new openness shows that Apple is walking its talk on diversity – positioning them even more favorably in the never-ending Silicon Valley talent wars.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Meeting frequency and processes follow same old routines. Change management processes create more rigidity and less agility. How much diversity is encouraged? What process do you use for problem-solving? Death by PowerPoint, endless reporting with little discussion, and no real debates. Look at your meetings.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

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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HR Digest

AUGUST 21, 2023

” In contrast, more experimental and unpredictable genres require more cognitive processing power, making them harder to habituate to and allowing them to draw more attention away from work. Happy and cheerful tunes have been found to boost performance, focus, and even encourage more cooperative behavior among employees.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Marketers focus on analysis and process; sellers focus on relationships and results. These diverse perspectives often lead to conflict. But the tension created by diverse viewpoints also has a positive side. Support the sales force with structures, processes, systems, and programs that enable sales success.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

A Broadway choreographer shared his hiring process with the mayor of a Midwestern city. 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.

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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. Their proposal would solve a diversity and inclusion problem, but the impact on the company’s bottom line wasn’t clear.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Here’s how we did it for ourselves and how we approach this process with the organizations we work with: Step 1: Identify content spokespeople. These abilities lend themselves well to content creation, and the team members who possess them tend to be more cooperative and effective in creating thought leadership content.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Many fire departments recognize that their lack of diversity as a problem and say they’re committed to increasing racial and gender diversity. ” But what’s the actual path for departments achieving more diversity? The fire service’s challenges with diversity go beyond gender and race.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

What should be a messy back-and-forth process far too often falls victim to our desire to keep things harmonious and efficient. Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. As you explore the findings for your team, look for any tensions that might stem from personality-based diversity. Amy Jen Su. Kevin Kniffin.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

Hopefully then, we can agree that while the principle of performance review is sound, where it often falls short is in the execution of the process. 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? Great post!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

In a recent piece in The New Yorker exploring the flaws inherent in the groupthink of brainstorming sessions, Jonah Lehrer cited research into the process of free association by psychology professor Charlan Nemeth of the University of California at Berekely. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

By going beyond mere cooperation and coordination, collective work produces more innovative and productive outcomes that exceed the simple sum of individual efforts. Are work processes clear? Collective work and mutual commitment are the key characteristics. Have you made your people a real team bound by a genuine sense of "we"?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Some researchers are social anthropologists, in effect, following key officials during the Mela to unmask the processes that allow efficient and rapid decision making. To those interested in how cooperation among diverse groups happens, this is a fortuitous setting. This is also the first Big Data Kumbh, as I call it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Since the 1980’s, anthropologists have come to think of culture more as a process, rather than a thing that people share. 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

JUNE 12, 2018

At its Center of Competence for Cities, in London, Siemens employs a diverse set of experts, from architects and urban planners to public finance specialists. Getting this right involves an often-painful process of enforcing guidelines about mandates and responsibilities.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There is an opportunity to gain diverse experience quickly. If you did not give your previous job a proper chance in terms of trying to cooperate and seeing the bigger picture, there is a possibility you might regret leaving. This puts you in the front seat during the hiring process. Especially if your new job isn’t great.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

As these devices become subject to the same cyber threats with which software developers have long been familiar, companies will need to take steps to integrate security considerations into their designs and design processes right from the start. The Public/Private Cooperation We Need on Cyber Security. Encourage a skeptical culture.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

A couple of years ago I was invited to facilitate an offsite training for the diversity committee of a Fortune 500 company. In an era in which “diversity” has become a buzzword in the business world, the firm’s interest in the topic was both admirable and understandable.

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