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Cooperation and Outward Spiraling Success Loops

Mike Cardus

The cooperation loop is a mindset of working to find cooperation …any size large and small and develop practice of building from that cooperation. The finance team in a Health Care Company. started by asking: What do you want the people in sales and the project managers to do? We know the Resistance Loop.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves. Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development. Well need to enable cross-boundary judgment.

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An Online Medical Database Is Reducing Doctor Error

Harvard Business Review

Given that most developing countries do not record medical errors, the global magnitude of the problem is not well documented. The Global Health Delivery (GHD) Project at Harvard University and Wolters Kluwer launched a partnership in 2009 to donate subscriptions to UpToDate to clinicians in resource-limited settings around the world.

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“Leadership Qualities” vs. Competence: Which Matters More?

Harvard Business Review

We studied 49 teams at a publicly held Dutch company; the teams were auditing finances in search of tax evasion and fraud. When do self-managed teams, or “holocracies,” work best? Are top-tier business schools overly focused on developing “leaders” who are ready to take charge of anything?

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Develop Deep Knowledge in Your Organization — and Keep It

Harvard Business Review

The best leaders understand that the current success of their business, and any future innovation, depends upon the “deep smarts” of their employees — the business-critical, experience-based knowledge that employees carry with them. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing.