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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. Do whatever you can to explain not only the vision and the direction, but why those decisions are being made. (This doesn’t mean that tactical behaviors aren’t important, but they don’t differentiate the highly effective leaders from everyone else.).

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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 -. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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Why Your Company Should Partner with Rivals

Harvard Business Review

So I asked: Do you foresee a time when you'd willingly provide access to your leading green technology to your competitors? Therefore it's time to extend the concept of game theory to upstream activities too. So what is the lesson we should learn from the efforts of NWNA and other trailblazing companies?

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Better Ways of Thinking About Risks

Harvard Business Review

But how, exactly, is one supposed to go about doing these things? It includes decision analysis, game theory, and operations research. Leaders don't need to master them; they just need to know what they can do, so that they can match methods (and experts) to problems.

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Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career

Harvard Business Review

How do those without extensive training in statistics equip themselves with the skills necessary to thrive (or even just survive) in our age of “big data”? What kind of education do I have to go back and make sure that I have? What do I study? How much education do I need? So it’s by experience.

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

In other words, Tirole does what modern academic economists do, only better than almost anyone else. He then usually brings in the tools of game theory, in which his protagonists have to contend with other rational actors and the moves they might make. What are the aspects that distill the situation down to its very essence?’”.