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How to Help Managers Become More Strategic

Let's Grow Leaders

In a recent HBR article, Robert Kabacoff shares his research of 60,000 managers in 40 countries. Managers can learn to be more strategic through understanding, exposure and challenge. Instead invest in your highly talent managers and teach them the art of strategy. How Help a Manager Become More Strategic.

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How Teams Can Function When They Have Conflicting Goals

The Horizons Tracker

How do teams manage to function when their goals are conflicting however? This was joined by a computer model that utilized Bayesian statistics and differential game theory to simulate such interactions. Teams are understandably most effective when their goals are both clearly articulated, and shared between all participants.

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The Science Of Scheduling Meetings Effectively

The Horizons Tracker

It’s rare to find a manager anywhere who thinks they have too “few” meetings, and yet the curse of “busyness” continues, with people stuffing their day with meetings that add little, if any, value to their day.

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Would You Pay To Change A Game Before Playing It?

The Horizons Tracker

Games are largely seen as enjoyable ways to pass the time, with the outcome not to be taken too seriously, but of course game theory defines games more broadly as any interaction between decision makers who probably have well-defined (if different) preferences. Bending the rules. ”

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Success is not a zero-sum game

Lead on Purpose

In games like chess , one person wins and the other loses. These situations provide outstanding growth opportunities and a great chance to generate and implement innovative and creative solutions.&# — The Product Management Perspective: Product managers rely on others to help them succeed.

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How to hack a management system [brief talk]

Ask Atma

That’s kind of like a project manager on academic steroids. Wiring in innovation as a cultural behavior. Game theory applications – tapping into mutualistic dynamics. Hacking your management system. [A 5 minute talk given at LA Hackers on April 23, 2011 at Coloft]. My name is Atma. I am an industrial psychologist.

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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. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation.

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