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Unleashing the Power of Sustained Growth

Skip Prichard

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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How Do You Define Friendship At Work?

Mike Cardus

Team members who have high job satisfaction within the team’s tasks, and who stay with a team for years typically develop a deep understanding of the reciprocal value of cooperation with other team members. Once team members experience this interdependent value, cooperation usually increases. So do they need to like-like each other?

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Time to Dust off the Suits: Understand the Rise of Return to Office Policies

HR Digest

More importantly though, while many employees themselves feel happier and more well-adjusted working at home, employers have long felt that there is a decline in productivity and an inherent impact on the work that is done for them. Having the employees on your side is always a better strategy and that applies to your RTO policies as well.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business Review

It starts with a “vision” statement, moves on to “strategic themes” (six in all) and culminates in 28 “strategic goals.” Take the example of a dairy cooperative I worked with recently. It was a national distributor of milk and other dairy products and in it, farmers occupied two roles.

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The Big Barrier to High-Value Health Care: Destructive Self-Interest

Harvard Business Review

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. Establish Common Goals. Define the Respective Roles of Competition and Cooperation.

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5 Leadership Mantras For Building Better Partnerships

Tanveer Naseer

It doesn’t matter what we do, where we do it, or how well we create a product or offer a service. Think long term Although it may feel counterintuitive, to thrive within a volatile world, leaders must be aware of the present moment while simultaneously setting their sights on long-term goals: purpose must be a part of the present.