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When is it OK NOT to Develop? Hint: Never.

Great Leadership By Dan

In today’s hypercompetitive, white-water, VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) business environment, if you are not growing you are dying. You’re letting the employee run the risk of becoming expendable and unemployable, and you’re saying it’s OK to run your team at less than optimal performance. Probably not.

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8 Reasons Your Peers Rate You Low on Your 360 Feedback Assessment

Let's Grow Leaders

You fight for your team at all costs. Sometimes the best person for the special assignment is not the guy on your team, it’s the Bobby on Mark’s team. Sometimes your team screws up. Yes, advocate for your team. Executives set impossible goals, so managers drive their teams to burnout trying to deliver.

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My Competitiveness Was Hurting My Sales Team. Here’s How I Realized It

Harvard Business Review

Research in recent years shows that sales teams do better when members collaborate with one another. I was convinced that I was a team player, a collaborator, willing to put the goals of the sales unit on equal footing with my own. And my hypercompetitive colleagues were surely behaving the same way. You and Your Team Series.

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Want to Thrive in Today’s High-Speed, Hypercompetitive Business World? Teach Your Management Team to Iterate.

Strategy Driven

And managers who continually ask themselves and their teams what that next logical step to be taken is – and then take it, learn from it and repeat the process – are Iterating. If you want to run a fast, flexible, focused management team, use these five key practices: 1. Linked Teams. Output and Status Broadcasting.

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How Successful Virtual Teams Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

I have worked on many teams in which we dutifully did our jobs, and the group fulfilled its objectives. And then I have worked on other teams in which everyone energetically collaborated with one another, and the results were spectacular. In one study, team members played an online version of "scavenger hunt." Adjust for size.

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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

2) Foster healthy rivalry among global R&D teams: CEOs may find it difficult to persuade R&D teams in the US and Europe — used to abundant resources and pushing the technology frontier for its own sake — to embrace frugal innovation. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges. lakhs ($6,600).

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Write a Failure Resume to Learn What Makes You Succeed

Harvard Business Review

In a world defined by hypercompetition and intense pressure, where business breakthroughs and career advancement demand a willingness to take risks and defy convention, the notion that any person can achieve meaningful success without experiencing setbacks and disappointments seems hopelessly naïve. billion acquisition by eBay.”