Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

But like at other companies, our teams and departments tend to focus on their piece of the business — siloed behavior that causes frustration and impedes broader aims. To cultivate empowered, collaborative, cross-functional teams, we have been experimenting with a new approach to performance development. Magazine Article.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

For years, I puzzled over the huge performance gaps I often saw between teams that, on paper, looked as if they would be equally effective. You see it in business, in sports, in creative endeavors from movies to magazines. What made the difference? You also have to help them work together. You also have to help them work together.

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Mills-Scofield

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Say “I’m annoyed that this project is six months behind schedule,” rather than “You’ve missed every deadline we’ve set.” I’d like to clear the air so that we can continue to work together to make the project a success.” But that’s unlikely to go over well. Instead, treat your opinion like what it is: your opinion. That’s my perception.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Business books, magazines, and blogs are chock full of advice about how to give feedback to individuals, but how do you do the same for your entire team? There needs to be an expectation within the team this is a shared leadership responsibility,” he says. How much is too much? And how should your colleagues help?

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 12, 2009

Soon he became fascinated by multimedia and began working in this field, first as programmer, then as a project manager. Audio doesn’t function the same way as written text, so its execution is often poor. Your approach to creating audio should be similar to developing a large website. Jens started as a technology writer.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. I recently led a working session for a team of executives looking to select a CRM provider. And the sales team — well, they mostly hated it. PM Images/Getty Images. The numbers ranged from 18% to 69%.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

So marketers must develop the same mind-set and skills that allow agile tech and product-development teams to manage complex projects with many unknowns and moving parts. Add banner to homepage, showcasing our new fleece-lined jacket, projected to be our top seller. Here are some recommendations for doing that.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

She had already developed a reputation for taking on daunting projects, and she knew these two executives admired her work. Psychologist Claude Steele has documented the phenomenon known as stereotype threat , or the tendency to “choke” and underperform due to fear of bias.

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Underperforming Technical Team Survey Leadership Study 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

3M has consistently been highly ranked, often in the top 20, in Fortune magazine''s annual survey of "America''s Most Admired Corporations." Fry applied for and received funding to develop a product based on Silver''s accidental discovery. Drew did, but he continued working on the tape project on his own time. How do they do it?

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Resources System 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

It can lead thoughtful executives to view design hype with skepticism, and suspect a case of winner's bias: magazines run cover stories about the rare design-driven superstar, but ignore the more numerous losers. It's tempting to treat design as a menu of services, applying it here and there on bits of a project that need sprucing up.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Your organization’s growth opportunities fall into four different categories, and in order to develop your business in a commercially sustainable manner, you need four specific types of project manager to pursue them. Will every organization need all four types of employees to sustainably develop and grow their organizations?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

When one of Apple's design teams was tasked with developing a DVD-burning software program for high-end Macs, developers spent weeks putting together a plan. According to Fortune Magazine , only one executive at the firm — the CFO — has P&L responsibility. Yet turnover at Apple is low.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2014

References provide “an accurate, third-party assessment of your strengths and weaknesses so managers can hire knowing full information,” he explains. Ask coworkers who have thanked you for help on projects. If he wants to check your ability to develop a strategy, bosses are the people to call. Be prepared. Be resourceful.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You have an ambitious team member who’s asking to be promoted to manager. ’” The good news is that, “people can develop their capacity to lead,” says Linda Hill, professor at Harvard Business School and the coauthor of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader. What the Experts Say.

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Management Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Gore , the high-tech materials company known for its Gore-Tex fabrics, these companies developed their distinctive management practices over decades. In 2016 Zappos fell off Fortune magazine’s Best Places to Work for the first time in eight years. Does it boost team morale? To simply excise them would create chaos.

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Underperforming Technical Team Management Open Innovation Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. What’s the problem?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash. The team decided to adopt a simple-rules approach to the work ahead. Accordingly, the management team identified capital budgeting as a critical bottleneck keeping the company from achieving its objectives.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

We all know people who seem to be constantly stressed out — who claim to be buried in work, overloaded with projects, and without a minute to spare. “Say, ‘Is there anything that I, or anyone on my team, can do to help to you?’” ’ Signal that you can’t read how bad it is for them.”

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 19, 2015

This article will likely be part of a book on the front end of innovation that’s in development, stay tuned. How to effectively do Mash-Ups, either alone or with a team, is not a simple answer. However, if you know the principle you can facilitate yourself or a team using stimulus and scaffolding.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

You can accomplish this by posting ideas physically, or more appropriately with a geographically spread-out team, virtually. By having people from different countries, teams, and backgrounds collaborate, we benefit from a greater diversity of ideas. Closed feedback loops. Taking ideas forward.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. Then, both approaches move toward developing a theory about how to solve the problem or design challenge.

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