Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

An Interview with Bob Lisser Achieving sustained and profitable growth is a goal for commercial entities worldwide. By combining these elements, businesses can align their operations with their long-term goals and set themselves up for enduring success. Why is it that most people don’t know their company’s main goals?

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 27, 2022

In his editorial, “Making Purpose Real,” Harvard Business Review , editor, Adi Ignatius, writes, “Too often, discussions of managing with ‘purpose’ can be frustratingly vague. ” I especially resonate with what Ignatius says is HBR’s purpose, “to rid the world of bad management.”

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2015

This singular emphasis on results can, however, cause players to operate from an “I win, you lose” philosophy – and act to inhibit others’ performance while they maximize their own. A balance of meaning and results enables players to act from inspiration and cooperation, not purely from competition.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But when you have smaller teams that are responsible for their own work, you get all the benefits of cooperation while still creating an environment where people are motivated to do their best work because they know their efforts will be recognized and rewarded. In this article, we look at how a small team operates.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2017

Unassumingly, they steer the team closer and closer to the goal. This is the manager who embodies the soul of the effort and emerges as the glue that binds. They know it’s a team sport and cooperation and assistance from other managers, divisions, and departments is critical for victory. 3- Purposely Engage Others.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 23, 2012

While these sports teams are True Teams they all work together to achieve a common goal they are not Managerial-Accountability-Hierarchies. More examples; They are NOT built up of manager-subordinate role relationships. For the team to work well in the field, they have to be able to sustain a cooperative team-work mode.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

To make that happen, we must ensure that our management team has everything it needs to earn the trust of employees.” It’s a way in which the leader can also create a fun and creative environment in which to operate. It is the difference between becoming a connected leader in ‘ Flat Army ‘ to actually being one.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

You can consider opening a franchise for any established company where you will only require to find a proper location and arrange funds for your operations. An effective plan is chalking down the purpose and goals of your business. It also helps in determining the production goals. Cooperatives. Partnership. Conclusion.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 2, 2012

Teams operate within multiple systems. The individuals on the team, with their own perception of the team, the organization, the management and the work. We can all agree that teams will achieve results when everyone on the team knows and understands the Goal / Purpose of this particular team being brought together. What to do?

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With the rise of AI and Big Data , companies are starting to adopt these technologies to improve their operations. The long-term goal is for users to be able to access the Metaverse from a variety of devices and locations, whether via mobile apps or immersive virtual and augmented reality technologies.

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The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 26, 2012

And yet, too many distressed managers believe employees are out for themselves and motivated primarily by money. This mutual goal achievement is represented in the red collaborative overlap of the twin circles: here representing the company and the individual (although they can also represent any two parties coming together).

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 27, 2011

Team members operating this way fail to see the other members as people of equal value; they see them as objects or goods to be used for their personal advancement. Once team members experience this interdependent value, cooperation usually increases. This is the responsibility of all team members, not just management.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 8, 2016

When implementing change, it can seem impossible to get conflicting organizational silos to work together towards a common goal. Departments become misaligned when optimizing their own goals over other departments’ goals and organizational goals. Getting divisive groups to cooperate to implement change is a challenge.

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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). But that lofty goal can feel like attempting to change tires in the middle of rush-hour traffic. You can see the article here: [link]. BY MARK THOMPSON [link].

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 24, 2020

Stephen Covey, the late motivational speaker, writer, and advisor, once wrote, “Without trust we don’t truly collaborate; we merely coordinate or, at best, cooperate. Situations will arise when decisions need to be made by your employees for which there is no operating procedure or precedent.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Definitions of these three terms will help to differentiate their intended objectives: Collaborations - Parties willingly cooperating together. Cooperation with an instrumentality with which one is not immediately connected. Involves close cooperation among parties, with each having specified and joint rights and responsibilities.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Involving others in decisions and working together toward goals and objectives are an imperative. Collaboration is necessary to get buy in and cooperation. Relationship Oriented and Goal Oriented: Developing and sustaining high-quality workplace relationships is becoming more important.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Be aware, however, that constant re-engineering, reorganization, and restructuring in pursuit of efficiency (or the latest management fad) has a questionable effect at best. The alignment culture is a company’s “must do” culture, and encompasses cooperation, consensus, and working together toward overarching goals.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

Clearly and powerfully define your company's contribution to society -- which must be at the heart of the company's purpose, not a side operation. Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics. There are also business leaders that continue to maintain that only maximizing shareholder value is a sufficient goal.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This is a huge roadblock: In the survey, supported by the Brightline Initiative, 90 percent of respondents admitted that they fail to reach all of their strategic goals because they don’t implement well, and more than half said that weakness in delivering strategy puts them at a competitive disadvantage. Discuss challenges openly.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

One assistant VP I worked with was correct about what needed to be accomplished, but he was driven to “get it over with” and “put it behind” him, and often operated unilaterally to get things done. Because he was only urgent about his own goals and tasks, he was perceived as a bad partner and not a team player.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Collaboration across departments or units of the same company will likely be a good thing only if managers set up the conditions for what Morten Hansen — citing Procter & Gamble's collaborative innovation as a prime example — calls " disciplined collaboration." This includes getting buy-in toward a common goal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s were dominated by legendary players such as Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, and Diego Maradona, who, thanks to their skill and speed, found empty spaces in midfield, created the time to take the ball to the box, and then decided to pass or shoot at the goal.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Rather than cooperating, too many functions end up competing for power, influence, and limited resources. For example, this study examining the rivalry between sales and marketing showed that conflicts between managers from these historically warring functions were not driven by interpersonal issues. How to Manage a Toxic Employee.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Given political climates around the world and a new wariness around international cooperation, the private sector could find itself in the hot seat: trying to pick up the slack on big issues from climate change to sustainable development. Some goals may be too broad or too distant. Navigating the SDGs: Where to Begin?

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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. Some of the department managers received their mail with good grace, responding with a well-placed thank you and a smile.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? Take the example of a dairy cooperative I worked with recently. Alicia Llop/Getty Images. It’s more like a dog chasing its tail.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Bosses’ perceptions of stress are offset by factors such as status, autonomy, and job security, which are generally higher for managers than for their employees. For example, my friend Terri is the regional sales manager for a medical device company, which was acquired by a larger firm six months ago. It’s a great idea.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Early in my career, when sharing a vacation house with a group of friends, I learned an important lesson from a classic book by anthropologist Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger : It takes a lot of people cooperating to keep things neat, but it takes only one disgruntled dirt-monger to mess things up. Don't give them power.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Underlying this notion was the lack of tangible results that could be attributed to management training.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. They have changed their IT functions utilizing three related management interventions which, taken together, represent a fundamental re-invention of IT.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s were dominated by legendary players such as Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, and Diego Maradona, who, thanks to their skill and speed, found empty spaces in midfield, created the time to take the ball to the box, and then decided to pass or shoot at the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It's difficult to get senior executives who have been successful managing a particular way to realize that they need to change their approach. As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors.

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