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How Employee Monitoring And Ranking Harms Collaboration

The Horizons Tracker

Tracking what employees do has seldom been more popular, with a range of new technologies allowing employers to monitor the work undertaken by employees in a number of ways. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the sporting world, where athletes are kitted with wearable devices to monitor every feasible aspect of their performance.

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. I Think Not.

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Is the Cost of Innovation Falling?

Harvard Business Review

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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African Lessons for the City-State of Facebook

Harvard Business Review

There is a competitive edge to posts, and a cooperative spirit about creativity — all in plain view of strangers and anonymous lurkers, and yet the conversation rarely escapes into that esoteric, obscuring, denialist, tone that so often suffocates Western internet forums. Most of my friends have their privacy settings on "public."

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Learning Collaboration from Tiki-Taka Soccer

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. Sports journalist Andrés Montes called this style of play tiki-taka, drawing a parallel between the sounds of quick passes and clackers, the popular two-balls-on-a-string toy.

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Learning Collaboration from Tiki-Taka Soccer

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. Sports journalist Andrés Montes called this style of play tiki-taka, drawing a parallel between the sounds of quick passes and clackers, the popular two-balls-on-a-string toy.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. innovative alternatives. Individual empowerment. We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges! '.