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How to Help Managers Become More Strategic

Let's Grow Leaders

In a recent HBR article, Robert Kabacoff shares his research of 60,000 managers in 40 countries. Managers can learn to be more strategic through understanding, exposure and challenge. Instead invest in your highly talent managers and teach them the art of strategy. How Help a Manager Become More Strategic.

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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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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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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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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?’”.

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What Watching Too Much Star Trek Gets You

Harvard Business Review

How do you know what to share, and what not to share, before you share?" The conundrum would not get out of my head, and after months of thinking and researching everything from game theory to IP law, I came up with a business model that would, in fact, make the problem irrelevant (in theory). Unsolvable problem.