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How to Help Managers Become More Strategic

Let's Grow Leaders

Managers can learn to be more strategic through understanding, exposure and challenge. The more people you have thinking strategically, even at the frontlines, the more innovative and dynamic your company will be. Do whatever you can to explain not only the vision and the direction, but why those decisions are being made.

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Success is not a zero-sum game

Lead on Purpose

In games like chess , one person wins and the other loses. And because of that you’ll be able to accomplish anything you set out to do.&# Chris Warner and Don Schmincke , the authors of the book High Altitude Leadership describe what happens when people do not work together. The win (+1) added to the loss (-1) equals zero.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. 1) Create a Learning Environment -. The 5 building blocks of collaboration.

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What Watching Too Much Star Trek Gets You

Harvard Business Review

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. Breaking Out of the Innovation Box" was not the title I had wanted, but it worked.