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Frontline Festival: Leaders Give Pointers on Creating Connection

Let's Grow Leaders

Communication, the human connection, is the key to personal and career success. Artificial “bonding” outside of the context of work mostly doesn’t translate to the work environment and therefore is not where we should focus. Follow William. Follow Wally. Follow John. Follow Shelley.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. But the decentralization debate was different. The two men went way back. Now Vera was getting worked up.

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Social Means Freedom, for Better or for Worse

Harvard Business Review

McAfee formed a strong bond of commitment with the hundreds of unpaid technical experts in the larger marketplace who know (and like) McAfee's platform of solutions. But they will need an extremely clear purpose, and shared, decentralized power throughout. McAfee did something transformative to their service exchange by using social.