Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

The idea that leaders are trustworthy, honest, and can be relied on to operate in the best interest of the public, the employee, the student, the parishioner, or even the shareholder has been shattered. Often leaders are described by action words such as “results-oriented, innovative, driven and visionary”.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 11, 2024

Such employee spyware can be extremely damaging to employee relations and significantly undermines the trust between workers and management. ” The study examines how unions and worker councils have responded to the growth in so-called algorithmic management in a number of call centers operated by telecom companies in Norway and Germany.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice he argues that the most successful companies are those who are able to understand why customers make the choices they do. Unfortunately, to use the vernacular of Stephen Haeckel , many innovators adopt a make and sell approach rather than sense and respond.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Spirit of cooperation. This fundamental truth underpins Canon’s culture of kyosei , which can best be described as a spirit of cooperation whereby we all work together for a common good. ” This extends to being active participants in each of the regions in which they operate. Focus on operational efficiencies.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Management must be OK with the team changing the steps, as long as the change goal is met you cannot micromanage the process. Example – Working with a large Coffee and Bake Shop franchise headquarters wanting the district managers to use Coaching & Feedback as opposed to authority and demands with the franchise owners.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2022

The study finds that when we strive for cooperation in the workplace, envy is strongly linked with absenteeism and even a greater likelihood of leaving our job. Research from Cambridge Judge Business School reminds us that it’s also a factor in the workplace. An uneven response.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

How do teams manage to function when their goals are conflicting however? The results of both the simulation and the practical experiments reveal that information about the behavior of one’s partner is key to successful cooperation, with optimal interaction strategies developed to enhance the effectiveness of the group.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

As a new project manager at Hewlett Packard I found that I interacted with a lot of brilliant people, many of who had been conditioned by higher learning institutions to compete rather than collaborate. Team members started cooperating and collaborating at a level that got them, and me, noticed. And it was contagious.

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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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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The four ways operate in a kind of matrix, with specialization along one axis and operating in either sequence or in parallel along the other axis. As a result, we have gradually moved away from fears that machines will take all of our jobs to an understanding that we are likely to be working alongside technology in new ways.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 8, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind Jocelyn Glei, Editor Innovating Analytics: Word of Mouth Index- Use the Next Generation of Net Promoter to Increase Sales and Drive Results […].

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

Someone at work ( your manager, coworker, subordinate, peer, vendor, customer, etc…) pisses you off and you go off on an angry tirade about “What a jerk they are – they always do this. These complaints often construct the reality of how the team operates and how the people within the team treat and act towards each other.

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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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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 4, 2019

The researchers set out to analyze how resilient organizations such as social enterprises and co-operatives were to economic changes, and indeed how such organizations can help to support employment levels and provide ‘good’ jobs in the face of such changes.

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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. For whom do they do it?

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 28, 2011

Extant (presently existing) structures and processes that reinforce our deeper-lying impulses of love, trust, kinship and friendship, and release affection, creative co-operation and innovation. Excessive bureaucracy and top heavy management structure (too many levels within the organization). Recognition is given appropriately.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

The new style of leadership is premised on trust , and the practice of management is now more art than science. We are witnessing the most progressive organizations operate as engines for learning. No longer is there paying lip service to personal and professional growth –it’s a sound retention and innovation strategy.

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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. Strategic HR is about planning for the future of the workforce –workforce management, scheduling, and planning –or, to put it another way, who will be where at any given time.

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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). You have to lead transformation without sacrificing financial and operating results, or injuring your engagement scores. Dear readers! BY MARK THOMPSON [link].

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

For example, a typical Mars plant manager influences associates by his or her ability to pace development of operational systems and innovative approaches. These operational managers' value to Mars is they initiate or design positive changes. It doesn't work that way elsewhere. Source: FORTUNE, February 4, 2013. ?

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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. When an individual’s personal values are aligned with the core values of the company, that’s when passion is ignited – and that creates the collaboration that drives innovation, productivity, growth and competitive advantage.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

It has happened to all of us, someone at work ( your manager, coworker, subordinate, peer, vendor, customer, etc…) pisses you off and you go off an angry tirade about “What an a **e they are and they always do this. These complaints construct the reality of how the team operates and how the people within the team treat and act towards others.

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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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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 9, 2022

Organizational and occupational barriers , such as specific internal challenges that prevent people from operating from anywhere or the licenses that are required to practice certain professions. This can allow teams to effectively cooperate even when doing so across timezones. Visa regulations are a prime example.

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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? However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 7, 2021

The researchers asked participants, selected from India and the United States, to play an online strategy game whereby cooperation and collaboration were desirable strategies. Each participant played the game with an online partner. They were required to choose from one of three scenarios. Global fluency. Speaking the language.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

By combining these elements, businesses can align their operations with their long-term goals and set themselves up for enduring success. As I travel the country, I find one consistent theme: most executives, managers, and employees are “unaimed,” meaning they don’t know their company’s top goals or how they contribute to those goals.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But we have come to tolerate the illusion that the essential matters of work can be invented, managed, and sustained through the creation, storage, retrieval, display, and publication of information. What was invented as a means to replace the post office has now become the most common management tool in organizations.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

The character values, or blocks of the pyramid, were: industriousness, enthusiasm, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, self-control, alertness, initiative, intentness, condition, skill, and team spirit. He required even the best players to clean up after themselves in the locker room and not to expect the student managers to do it.

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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. Engage radically -- a completely open, proactive and constructive approach to the outside world.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

In such a complex world, the role of a leader is not just to give direction, but to create an environment in which people cooperate and collectively fulfill the mission of the organization with far more autonomy and accountability than in the past. All of this leads to vastly greater complexity than leaders had to contend with in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The innovator's quest has been to find the win-win proposition: a great new product that can create differentiated value for consumers while supporting differentiated profits for the producer. The innovator's job is now to create wins across the board. But the focus on win-win can blind us to the needs of critical partners.

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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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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? Not only does it provide tools and resources for those transitioning into a leadership role, it also includes development strategies for management teams who are overseeing the growth of new leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. Through an innovation excellence framework. Innovative companies create an environment that fosters the right balance between current and future with “and thinking.”.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Additionally Hard Skill, Soft Skill illustrates how we all operate from different criteria of what a hard, soft skill is. Hard Skill, Soft Skill – provides people with the opportunity to recognize and be recognized in their skill sets and talents. And the ability to place quantitative metrics on a qualitative skill.

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