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Mastering Leadership with Adizes’ Management Styles

N2Growth Blog

Key Takeaway: To leverage the Creator style effectively, organizations should: Encourage Innovation: Provide a platform for brainstorming and idea generation. The Integrator: Facilitators of Collaboration and Unity Integrators foster teamwork, resolve conflicts, and align efforts across diverse groups.

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Workers, Take Off Your Headphones

Harvard Business Review

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. The more I participated in the ambient, informal life of the office, the more committed I became to the work of the company. Is there an upside?

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The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Strategy Driven

How diverse is the planning committee? Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations). Let your people participate in devising the indicators. Continuous quality improvement within your own operation. Creative new ideas generated.

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Create a Crowd Competition That Works

Harvard Business Review

If you''re looking to spark disruptive and powerful ideas that benefit your company, follow these guidelines to launch an engaging competition: 1. Open-ended challenges are rarely successful; participants aren''t engaged, ideas often aren''t actionable, and you''ll waste time combing through too many responses to find the few good ideas.