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Why Activists Succeed – and Will Change Yahoo

Adam Hartung

He pushed the board to shut down expensive R&D and product development to improve short-term earnings. Many big investors say that activists are the only way shareholders can do anything about lousy management teams that fail to deliver, and Boards of Directors that let management be lazy and ineffective. They are famous for.

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Workplace Conflict: Statistics That Reveal Its Cost

CMOE

Once you know why and when workplace conflict occurs, its effects, and other vital information, you can learn how to help your teams go through it and find the rewards beyond it. Unethical or unfair behavior that disrupts the work of an individual, team, or company. Figuring out which team members should take which tasks.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Koppl, 2008; Lewin, 2011). Do they tolerate mistakes?

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Great Teams: An Interview with Don Yaeger

Michael Roberto

His newest book is titled, Great Teams: 16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently. You focus in the book on the notion that great sports teams build a strong high-performance culture. Targeting Purpose— The team is connected to a greater purpose. Targeting Purpose— The team is connected to a greater purpose.