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The Good and Bad of Workplace Conflict

Coaching Tip

Coleman and Robert Ferguson explains why these pitfalls are so common and what to do to avoid them and take full advantage of the energy and potential for change that accompanies them. Promoting Diversity at Work. The Mobile Era Matures. Making Conflict Work" by Peter T. Conflict is not an inherently bad thing.

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Partnership: A Crucible for Innovation

Lead Change Blog

In a partnership, excellence cannot be sustained without a superior relationship of diverse strengths (see any movie about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for an example of a high performance partnership). Sourcing Innovation Collaboratively. Innovation is far more likely to happen when leaders create and nurture a flexible ecosystem.

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Complimentary Resource – Meeting the Demands of the Smarter Consumer

Strategy Driven

The IBM Institute for Business Value recently surveyed over 30,000 people in three mature and three growth markets to discover what consumers will want from retailers in the future. New technologies and socioeconomic trends are reshaping the retail marketplace.

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Why Is My Church Not Growing?

Ron Edmondson

There are seasons we grow more than others and seasons we are simply maturing to grow later. In my experience, you will produce some key thoughts from an exercise like this which will spur momentum, in addition to creating renewed energy among these key leaders. Friday Discussion: Racial Diversity in the Church.

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The Example Larry and Sergey Should Follow (It’s Not Buffet)

Harvard Business Review

As Todd Zenger wrote here earlier this week , many investors want to buy stock in a safer, maturing search advertising business without buying into Google’s riskier moonshots. To be clear, Google has thus far given no indication that it plans to create separate stocks. But its new structure would making doing so much easier.

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To Hold Women Back, Keep Treating Them Like Men

Harvard Business Review

While almost every executive I have ever met, anywhere in the world, says yes, most diversity policies are designed as if the answer were no. Last week, the Global Head of Diversity of a leading professional services firm told me that she “didn’t want to be treated differently.” Are men and women different?

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Leadership May Not Be the Problem with Your Innovation Team

Harvard Business Review

About 1,500 people completed the assessment, representing organizations across industries at different stages of maturity. Unsurprisingly, those working for older, larger businesses scored lowest in all four innovation conditions : constant energy, creative friction, flexible structure, and purposeful discovery. Do you fear failure?