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What is a Great Teammate, and WHY Should You Be One at Your Workplace?

Great Results Team Building

A study conducted by the University of Texas found that diversity in a team can lead to more creative and innovative ideas. By being a great teammate and valuing the perspectives of others, you can contribute to a more creative and innovative team environment. Luckily, I have colected some very interesting statistics for you!

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Call Them Opposites. Call Them Paradoxes. Just Manage Them.

Lead Change Blog

Feeling internal and external pressure to have more diversity, some companies define diversity as “making the numbers,” and task Human Resources (HR) with hiring more women and minorities. In organizations which “get” the power of paradox, leaders transcend “us versus them” thinking. I’ve seen his frustration before.

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Our Aim, Vision and Values

Deming Institute

When cooperation supplants competition, and people know what their jobs are and how they contribute to the system. The transformation will release the power of human resource contained in intrinsic motivation. We believe in the power of Dr. Deming’s vision of a better world and strive, with joy, to carry on his work.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Make you more innovative. It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. ” Given a choice between a network heavily skewed to the power players in your firm and a good mix of diverse contacts, which would you choose? It can keep you informed.

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To Address Gender Bias at Your Company, Start with Teams

Harvard Business Review

The only area where women pull ahead of men is in human resources, where they account for 71% of all HR managers. Edith Cooper, the global head of human capital management at Goldman Sachs, shared her experience: “People frequently assumed I was the most junior person in the room, when in fact, I was the most senior.

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Changing Capitalism, One Organization at a Time

Harvard Business Review

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. It's not enough to change one company.