Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

If You Want Remarkable Teams… Build for Collaboration. If you want great teams, you build them for collaboration. All of what I describe here applies to building remarkable teams as well as building a remarkable culture in your organization. But, do not underestimate the value of continued individual and team learning.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

But when the change involves a new information technology, it's harder to make incremental updates. The conventional wisdom when implementing such software packages is to identify all the stakeholders and include representatives of each group on the implementation team. Jointly map the work flows before you implement the technology.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Are you keeping your “hands clean” so the team trust and relies on you?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 19, 2012

Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right Thomas H.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

We begin by asking people to reflect on their best team experience and answer two questions: What does a powerful group look like? You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz. Ask people to: avoid using technology unless it is pertinent to the topics. What does it mean to be powerful in a group? Elizabeth Grace Saunders.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 19, 2012

Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right Thomas H.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When fit is low, it is like a rowing team in which every person in rowing at a different pace or even in a different direction. It you are not a technology geek, picture being asked to sit in a software class. In hiring talent at any level, especially senior managers and executives, this ‘fit’ is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz. Maskot/Getty Images. You may be surprised to learn this powerful tool is already at your disposal.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. But that’s only one side of the story.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

With a better understanding of the marketing context, she has brought a new level of financial discipline and rigor to the marketing team. Intel formed a special Marketing ROI (MROI) team – a first-of-its-kind collaboration between marketing and finance. This has reframed the conversation to balance the interests of both sides.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Whether it is rivalry between people (Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs; Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal), between organizations (e.g., Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology. Rivalry is everywhere. Ford versus GM), or between nations (e.g., should U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

Based on my 25 years of experience consulting with organizations and teams about how to lead effective meetings, here is what I’d suggest. Ask people to set aside technology (see below) and any other work and to focus on each person when they are speaking. That might sound something like this: You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Pure and simple When you assume a position of authority, either formally as a manager or informally as a team leader, you make the [.]. Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Baldoni and featured by CNN online. to read the complete article, please click here. * * * Leadership is a choice.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Roger Martin. The Science of Building a Scalable Sales Team. HBR's editors have compiled a list of some of our — and your — favorite of the nearly 2000 blog posts we published in 2012. Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young. Anne Kreamer. How to (Finally) Quit Your Job. Daniel Gulati. The Robots Coming for Your Job.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

He became an early adopter of social computing tools to communicate with employees, and in the process became a role model for adoption among his senior executive team, as well as the employee population. Coleman began blogging and soon his senior executives encouraged their teams to do so as well.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Tyson (Kaiser Permanente, healthcare), Omar Ishrak (Medtronic, medical technology), Sallie Krawcheck (Ellevest, investing), Kathryn Maher (Wikimedia, encyclopedia), John Rogers (Ariel Investments, financial services). I chose eleven CEOs: Art Peck (Gap Inc., Foster diversity throughout the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the concept of Getting to Yes , an iconic negotiation strategy developed by Harvard professor Roger Fisher and others. Similarly, a technology firm hired a new president for one of its regions to jump-start local sales growth. And you can team up with colleagues to pose these questions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

When a sports team finishes a game, they usually don’t gather up their gear and immediately leave the court, rink, field or locker room. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz. The players and coaches take a few minutes for a post-game meeting – a ritual that’s just as important as the pre-game warm-up.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz. ” Segment 2: The remote team members. The large global bank I referred to at the beginning of this article has a small but strategic team located in Singapore. Consider assigning someone the responsibility of keeping the virtual team members engaged throughout the meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

” The case of John Shuttleworth and his team at BT Financial Group (BTFG) illustrates how this can work. John Shuttleworth, a member of BTFG’s Executive Management Team, is responsible for Platforms and Investments. Kelley and Tim Brown of IDEO and Roger Martin of the Rotman School, design thinking has three major stages.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

In a large technology firm, for example, the CEO led a bi-weekly meeting of her top 20 people to review the business and make key decisions. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track. How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting. Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. There is concern these days about how technology is replacing our jobs and estranging our connections. Click on a product and you can make a purchase.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In his book Collision of Wills , University of Chicago sociology professor Roger V. Management schemes such as holacracy — which replaces top-down decision-making with a horizontal network of self-organizing teams — promise a pragmatic, rational antidote to ego-driven office politics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

A team at MIT is focused on developing "Internet 0," a slower, simpler system for bringing IP to the smallest devices. As the technology becomes more integrated into everyday life, it will, paradoxically, become more invisible. As the technology becomes more integrated into everyday life, it will, paradoxically, become more invisible.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

. “The higher you go in an organization, the more you’re expected to make decisions on which you might not have direct experience or expertise,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

It may sound counterintuitive, but the single biggest thing we can do to achieve stronger results with less burnout is to shut down worthy projects, teams, and task forces. Try Prioritization Grid Sessions with your teams to identify the highest impact initiatives. Change Less, Achieve More. military.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

This is apparent in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is using a collaborative approach to build a national digital highway , partnering with the country’s world-class technology companies in the process. Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

” She answered readily, “To take out duplicate costs from redundant work and to get the organization on one technology platform to manage our supply chain.” You and Your Team Series. ” He also cites Roger Martin’s research , which found that 43% of managers cannot state their own strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

“We were an ‘us’ team when we started out. As the agency grew, Bud appointed an agency leadership team and focused his energies on scaling up the company’s unique value proposition. In doing so, he discovered major flaws in the company that called for radical change.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Roger Ulrich, a visiting professor at Center for Healthcare Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has been a thought leader in the evidence-based design movement for 30 years. Tell us what health-care content you’d like to see more of from HBR. Therapeutic Benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people. We invite the entire product team to participate; if they have 15 or 30 minutes, they are encouraged to pop in, read some notes, and shift them to places that make sense.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Former Navy SEAL, David Silverman discusses the role of establishing a shared sense of purpose in non-executive teams. That’s why CEOs of many organizations established executive teams – a group of senior leaders who work together to define goals and ensure everyone keeps them in mind. The SEAL Teams are like being a part of a family.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

link] anna smith I just read an interview with Kent Williams, a team leader for Thomson Reuters. I showed this to my team, and they got a great laugh out of it.” Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

They came from training, team building and people management perspectives. Push paper, systems, technology. Science-Technology Provider. ” Will Rogers said, “Mr. Learn more about Hank Moore and The Business Tree™ by visiting his website, www.HankMoore.com. These are the people who do and make things.

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