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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

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E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate. It is important to make it a regular outing, and to really explore intriguing, albeit unrelated subjects as a group.

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Should You Share a Room on a Business Trip?

Harvard Business Review

Every manager has a P&L that he or she is responsible for," he says, "and while we don''t make sharing rooms a hard and fast rule, it''s our sense that when people have their own budgets and ownership for their profits, they''ll continue to operate that way.". Cutting costs Human resources Organizational culture'

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

In a departure from GE’s traditional control systems, the Center was not set up as its own business unit with its own P&L, but rather was funded by a $1 billion investment by Jeff Immelt and became part of GE Global Research. The next question was where to establish the software center. She told me how difficult it was.