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From Clashes to Collaboration – How to Cultivate a Thriving Team Culture After a Corporate Merger

Great Results Team Building

From Vision to Action: Building the Blueprint Brick by Brick Your cultural integration isn’t just about flowery mission statements. Define the behaviors and incentives that bridge the cultural gap. Together, you can build a culture that fuels success, drives innovation, and propels your organization to new heights.

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Effective Ways to Get the Best from Your Employees

Strategy Driven

To get the best from your employees, you need to make productivity one of the central core values of your business: Create a mission statement that sets out in detail everything that your company needs to do and is expected from your workforce. Reward Innovation and Efficiency.

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Southwest Airlines’ Julie Weber on What It Means To Create a Purpose-Driven Culture

HR Digest

A desire to act with courage, persevere and innovate; the ability to put others first, and a fun-LUVing attitude – these are the values that Southwest Airlines, the World’s Most Loved Airline, looks for in its employees and fosters through its talent management. Living the Southwest Way! What forms does this take at the company?

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The Key Ingredients of a Successful Team

Harvard Business Review

Google's mission statement is bold but simple: "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible, and useful." Space to excel: The third crucial element is the space to innovate, to be able to make mistakes and start over. That mightn't be true in the context of courtship, but it's certainly true of work.

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When Business Models Trump Technology

Harvard Business Review

But the incentives of the adopter and the technology developer are typically not aligned: while the technology developer has all the incentive to sell as many units as possible, the adopter would only like to make investments with the highest rates of return.

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Why User Experience Always Has to Come First

Harvard Business Review

Actions speak louder than mission statements. That is, platform providers and innovation ecosystems are rethinking how they really make money from, and with, their customers and partners. The former perspective inspires and incents a different investment in UX than the latter.

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Learning Collaboration from Tiki-Taka Soccer

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. Once, soccer players used to earn bonuses for scoring goals, but those were abandoned when managers realized that was an incentive to shoot — regardless of distance and position.

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