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Innovation is a team sport

Cris Beswick

At OUTCOME , we believe innovation is a system game, meaning it’s a team sport. The challenge is that many organisations have lost sight of the true definition of a team. 1] Let’s also differentiate between a department or group inside an organisation, as a group does not necessarily constitute a team.

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Workplace Conflict: Statistics That Reveal Its Cost

CMOE

It’s possible to learn how to effectively manage conflict with training. 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. Figuring out which team members should take which tasks. That’s a given.

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Why Activists Succeed – and Will Change Yahoo

Adam Hartung

They are different than other large investors, such as pension funds or mutual funds, who purchase lots of a company’s equity but don’t seek to overtly change the direction, and management, of a company. He pushed the board to shut down expensive R&D and product development to improve short-term earnings.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period.

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Big Hit or Big Flop: Extreme Outcomes for High-Status Project Leaders

Michael Roberto

A project manager has had a remarkable track record. They studied 349 games developed between 2008 and 2012. With status comes everything a leader needs for a project to succeed: resources, support, the faith of executives and team members. Finally, examine the project team closely. Not so fast.

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