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The 11 Essential Elements Needed to Achieve True Collaboration

Leading Blog

Collaboration is not a new concept, but globalization and new technologies have turned it into one of the best methods of competitive advantage available. Without diversity groupthink sets in. Leadership. It’s not about how many people you can defeat, but rather about how many people you can help win. Diverse Group.

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Why You Need Both Knowledge and Wisdom

Strategy Driven

New technologies and new leadership styles are needed to succeed and win. Groupthink is a real thing. Drew Hiss launched his outsourced payroll and HR technology solutions company, Checkdate Solutions, in 1994. When we studied wisdom for our new book, we found many interesting qualities that it has versus knowledge.

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Why You Should Care About The Revenue Forecast

The Idolbuster

I heard a cautionary tale from “George” the former VP of marketing at a mid-sized biotechnology company about how a bogus forecast helped propagate a disaster. Product development is always needed to make a new technology robust enough to work consistently in customer hands.

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Want a Team to be Creative? Make it Diverse

Harvard Business Review

Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. This is the opposite of groupthink, the creativity-killing phenomenon of too much agreement and too similar perspectives that often paralyzes otherwise great teams.

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You Don’t Need to Adopt Holacracy to Get Some of Its Benefits

Harvard Business Review

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Frank and honest leadership is usually enough. One of the greatest challenges of managing an enterprise today is that technology cycles often outpace planning cycles , so firms find themselves constantly having to adjust. Wal-Mart and Sears. Google and Yahoo.