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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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Chip Shots – The Power of Interdisciplinary Efforts

Lead Change Blog

David Dye – In my experience, the key to effective interdisciplinary efforts, cross-departmental cooperation, and breaking down silos is a clear focus on one organizational priority. Jon Mertz – Product management is a team sport. Getting marketing involved to craft messages that resonate internally is important.

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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.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

 Others suggest that this form of ranking can hurt morale and inhibit cooperation among competing team members that ultimately puts individual interest ahead of what is best for the company.  In many cases, both sides have valid arguments.  In many cases, both sides have valid arguments.

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IBM and Apple: From Rivals to Partners in 30 Years?

Harvard Business Review

The IBM-Apple part ended in delays and disagreements in software development, changes-of-heart on whether Apple technology would be licensed to others, and other such matters. A key success factor in any alliance is that the partners clearly delineate the scope of where they will cooperate and where they will compete.

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What Is Facebook, Really?

Harvard Business Review

It's a kind of Wikipedia, but built on a corporate, not a cooperative, model. As a communications technology, it has radically changed the ways we connect with one another. That's why we gather in crowds for sporting events, political rallies, and mass celebrations on New Year's Eve. Rather, it's a vast, branded utility.

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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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