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Cooperation and Outward Spiraling Success Loops

Mike Cardus

The finance team in a Health Care Company. Was struggling with sales representatives and project managers turning in expense and budget reports on-time…They told me “We have tried everything and our CFO is tired to putting out fires for us.”. The finance team in groups of 3 flip charted those responses.

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Develop Deep Knowledge in Your Organization — and Keep It

Harvard Business Review

Despite its relatively small size (about 600 employees), EYP also supports in-house research projects proposed by employees, which are selected through a competitive process. These knowledge-generation projects, always aimed at solving a challenge faced by clients, are intended to help differentiate EYP from competitors.

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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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An Online Medical Database Is Reducing Doctor Error

Harvard Business Review

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. Wolters Kluwers donates the subscriptions, and GHD selects the recipients and monitors their usage.)

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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? We replicated these findings in the field, by the way. The last study also looked in depth at how leaders get chosen.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.