Cooper Finance Innovation Operations 
Mike Cardus
AUGUST 9, 2013
The district managers operated under a control and command system and asking them to switch to coaching & feedback was met with great resistance. For years the team emailed and bugged people, sharing data on who was NOT getting the budget reports to finance. This created the belief that many people were late therefore it was OK.
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 1, 2016
In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.)
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N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 11, 2010
Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. Closing gaps becomes much easier when you can position differences as non-adversarial and operate within a framework of trust. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. I Think Not.
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 22, 2010
If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 20, 2010
This peanut-finance system, which turned the peanuts into food for hospital patients, seems quaint, like tales from 19th century America of rural doctors taking chickens for treating chicken pox. Such peanut-finance systems could drive tax authorities nuts, so to speak. Swaps are not quaint at all.
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 12, 2010
Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2017
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties.
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