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What Corporate Culture is Best for Change?

Michael Lee Stallard

They failed to change and became irrelevant, left behind by emerging competitors more in tune with the market. As humans, we naturally avoid change, and when we do encounter change, we tend to handle it poorly. Learn more about employee engagement and leadership by signing up for my Connect to Thrive newsletter.

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How Society Benefits If We Make It Easier For Refugees To Enter The Workforce

The Horizons Tracker

Unfortunately, barriers exist that prevent them from doing so, with many waiting years for an asylum decision. The research describes the inherent frustration of un-challenging occupations, such as watching television, that do little but fill the time. A human right to work. Ethnic support.

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The ability to recognize conflict, understand the nature of conflict, and to be able to bring swift and fair resolution to conflict will serve you well as a leader – the inability to do so may well be your downfall. Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Respect is earned by honoring commitments and doing the right thing regardless of opinion, sentiment, or influence. Here’s the thing – do this well enough and consistently enough, and you’ll find that most of those who once worked at cross-purposes to you, are now gladly working in concert with you.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While the thought that all employees should have an equal say may get some air time in business school, I have found that often times the theoretical discussions that take place in halls of academia have little to do with the realities that exist in the world of business. Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus.

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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

How do we make sure that the blossoming impact investment movement — especially as it starts to supplant traditional aid — actually leads to improvements in outcomes for the people and communities it is supposed to benefit? In 2010, J.P But are we scaling the right model? Lessons from Microfinance.

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Learning Collaboration from Tiki-Taka Soccer

Harvard Business Review

Solo efforts and individual stars used to decide the fate of soccer matches. As a result, the space and time available to players has become smaller, forcing them to pass faster and interact more closely. Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly.

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