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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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. It is essential for organizational health and performance that conflict be accepted and addressed through effective conflict resolution processes. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

A vast body of research shows that the hiring process is biased and unfair. When it comes to biases and hiring, managers need to “think broadly about ways to simplify and standardize the process,” says Bohnet. To begin, you’ll need to understand what hiring prejudices are and how they operate. Learn by doing.”

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation. You deserve input – but that done not mean that 100% agreement is the goal. Consensus isn’t the goal. I particularly liked: "Consensus isn't the goal. A team helps to create the best foundation for a decision or action. Good input is.

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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. They were tied to the frequency of how they exchanged information, and the degree to which there were effective processes connecting their work. Adam Pretty /Getty Images. workers averaging 2.8 hours per week. Office Politics.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate. Adjust the established principles as insights from the review process indicated. This is a responsive process and not about setting hard and fast rules. These are just a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

This issue arose when I presented a leadership team with survey results showing that its team members had very different beliefs about how much they needed to actively coordinate their work to achieve the team’s goals. Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. Amy Jen Su. Celia de Anca and Salvador Aragón.

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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. The Importance of Swarm Intelligence .

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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. 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. So, what to do?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Over the past couple of years, we have collaborated with the leadership development team at Cargill, one of the world’s largest global agricultural processing and distribution companies, to apply these ideas in a program for high-potential managers called “Leading in a Complex World.” One experiment generated a 2.6%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Consider for example CFO Ric Magnuson of Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, who started out as a skeptic on the process improvement activities his company launched in 2008. Streamline financial processes to focus on improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

While I’m not about to ask everyone in my company to participate in a daily cortisol readout, I have to operate under the assumption that even if I do feel pressure, my employees may feel more. Which is even more of a reason to understand how to reduce the tension my colleagues feel. It’s a great idea. Show support and gratitude.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Collaboration is a way of working that attracts and involves people outside one’s formal control, organization, and expertise to accomplish common goals. Coming to know how and when to collaborate is a learning process. Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. Collaboration is not a style. Work on your network.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The HTA’s self-described goal is “to improve the way corporations provide health care benefits in an effort to create better health care outcomes for their employees” by aggregating its members’ purchasing power and using it to gain additional leverage with care providers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

This includes getting buy-in toward a common goal. The General Manager and his team seemed not to realize that these disparate goals were a fundamental problem — both for the division's performance and for employee inner work life. In fact, we saw conditions that actually pitted departments against one another.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Giving the CMO a clear role in the strategic planning process is a good start. The CEO must establish a method that lets the CMO work effectively with other executives.Phillips Healthcare’s DiSanzo addressed this issue by developing a process that takes a product from concept to the marketplace. That can sometimes be an uphill battle.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Companies like Google operate simultaneously in multiple ecosystems, as do their competitors. Instead, it has just focused on the mobile-operating-system market. Android is Google’s open-source operating system (OS), which means that it can be adopted by any device manufacturer and modified to provide different functionality.

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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. Digital capabilities are about methods, processes and people — and a truly digital IT organization is different from traditional IT.

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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

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. The Importance of Swarm Intelligence .

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Recent research shows that CEOs who put stakeholders' interests ahead of profits generate greater workforce engagement — and thus deliver the superior financial results that they have made a secondary goal.". No system can thrive if one member group continually benefits at the expense of others.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

CEO succession is an inherently bumpy process. They adopt processes that have them anticipating the change far in advance, treat the retiring CEO with full respect, and make him or her feel comfortable throughout. But that means giving up on smooth succession as the overriding goal.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Research has shown that leaders’ decision making, communication style, and dark-side tendencies are influenced by the geographical region in which they operate. In order to ascend the organizational ranks, such leaders must seek consensus on decisions and drive others through a keen process orientation. Decision Making.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Toffel : The interesting thing about the risk lens is if everyone started paying attention to risks, I suspect it would lead to both more product innovation and investing in more-resilient operations and supply chains. And so a risk lens will lead to more adaptation measures, where private investments can yield private returns.

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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. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The job of a Theory Y manager is to create an environment in which subordinates understand the company's objectives and want to cooperate with management and each other to solve problems and participate in the decision-making. The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals. It was also central to how Sam built Circuit City.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Smart leaders make New Year resolutions and set quarterly milestones, charting progress against ambitious plans and goals. You don't have to separate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goals and project goals. You can make CSR the strategy or even the end goal for your business growth.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Firstly, the backing of Bertil Hult is crucial, as not only does this underpin the desire to back ventures that want to improve the world, but it also provides the accelerator with a more long-term focus than many others that rely on exits to sustain operations. Lastly, the six week residential accelerator is a fully immersive experience.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 3, 2020

Buchanan goes on to write, relative to humankind’s hunter-gatherer ancestors, that “There were no governments in those days, yet these groups depended utterly on unfailing cooperation for their existence – to gather food, to hunt big animals, and to defend themselves against other groups” (p. References. Buchanan, M. New York: Bloomsbury USA.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). However, despite these massive resources and C-level attention, all this corporate venturing seems to be failing to accomplish strategic innovation goals.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

If you were operating based on rational self-interest one could argue that you would buy as many tickets as possible. When you or I decide (or even a billionaire decides) to make a personal investment, the thought process is very focused on the desired return. How many would you buy? Will I get good value for my money?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

The results were dramatic: the following year, the company reached its annual sales goals three months into its fiscal year. Beside each operator was a large pile of partially assembled furniture. Alter Your Point-of-View. Look for unorthodox opportunities. Don''t constrain your thinking to improving only products or services.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Whether you are at the top of the company driving the remix, in the middle managing an acquisition or a partnership, or among the operating ranks keeping the pieces humming, you need to know the answers to such questions. Which partners and structures fit this goal best? For example, how much more value is created by the combination?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Henry Beyer walked up to a Mini Cooper in the city parking lot across the street from his office in downtown Houston. Henry was the senior vice president of operations. For the past five years, Henry had led the integration of all Beacon''s acquisitions, and he had the process down to a science. He laughed; Henry grimaced.

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