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We Need Time To Adapt To New Colleagues

The Horizons Tracker

Recent research from Bocconi University highlighted that we often develop the best ideas when we work with people we don’t know well, but then we develop those ideas most effectively with people we know well. This can help to emphasize the benefits of functional dissimilarity to the team.

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Talking with Each Other @ Work

Coaching Tip

Most people have learned not to listen to what management says but to pay attention only to what is going on around them on a day-to-day basis. Wayne Baker, author of " Achieving Success Through Social Capital" (Jossey-Bass, 2000). Sandy and his team believe that change is a natural and necessary part of growing a business.