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The Need For New Leadership In This COVID-Era

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper from INSEAD highlights how leaders have approached these challenges, and outlines the unique leadership qualities required to deal with wicked problems effectively. While you should strive for commitment to the project, you should also not be afraid to look elsewhere if it isn’t working.

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New Module: Learning from Mistakes and Successes

Coaching Ourselves

In every organization the quality of learning, advancement, and efficiency, depends very much on the sharing of Lessons Learned. Dr Kass’ career has spanned research in human spaceflight to knowledge management with the European Commission. and artificial intelligence (AI). www.kass-space.com. Contact us for more information.

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5 Steps To Encourage Data Sharing In Scientific Research

The Horizons Tracker

This is bad, as data sharing has been proven to make researchers considerably more productive, producing higher quality work that is cited more frequently, thus providing a benefit not only to themselves, but to society more generally. The European Commission have even put the cost of poor data sharing at around €10 billion per year.

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“Leadership Qualities” vs. Competence: Which Matters More?

Harvard Business Review

There’s sometimes a disconnect between how we talk about leadership qualities (we tend to use words like authority , power , and emotional intelligence ) and what we actually require from the people leading teams and other working groups (arguably, competence and a deep knowledge of the specific work that needs to get done).

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. In recreating your organization, the way you manage knowledge is crucial. Knowledge retention. [4].

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Why and How to Build an In-House Consulting Team

Harvard Business Review

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

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The Benefits of Virtual Mentors

Harvard Business Review

The good news is the rapid expansion of social media inside and outside companies has made it possible for aspiring leaders to hone their craft from the very best experts in many domains via the internet or knowledge management (KM) systems. They can become your virtual mentors.

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