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Three Solutions To Three Age Old Meeting Problems
A longitudinal study published by Harvard Business Review found that CEOs spend 72% of their time in meetings. While top executives’ calendars may be an extreme version of the problem, most leaders are overwhelmed. They perpetually…
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Dam, Flow Or Flood: How Does Information Travel In Your Organization?
In agile, complex, collaborative organizations, there is a direct connection between the quality of information flow and the quality of results. Shared context (or shared consciousness as described in the great book Team…
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How Time Crunches Kill Curiosity
Time is our least renewable resource. While “time management” sounds like a nice-to-have, it’s actually essential to producing innovation. There is a direct connection between the amount of time employees have to reflect,…
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Why We Love To Hate Meetings, But Keep Going To Them Anyway
Given the name of our organization – Stop Meeting Like This – we frequently get asked what people can do to upgrade the quality of their meetings. We provide the usual prescriptions: Get super clear on the purpose and…
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Three Actions That Put The Functional In Cross-Functional Collaboration
Even when teams have a shared purpose, clear strategy, and aligned success measures, cross-functional collaboration can feel harder than it should be.
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In Collaborative Work Cultures, Women Carry More of the Weight
In any organization, people apply unspoken rules and understood norms to get collective work done — in other words, they collaborate. Over the past 15 years, my team and I have observed and facilitated thousands of meetings…
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Is PowerPoint Killing Your Team's Creative Capacity?
Try these tips for boosting your virtual team’s creative capacity.
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Want Better Collaboration? Shift Your Thinking
A simple shifts in leadership mindset and behaviors can have an outsized effect on the speed and effectiveness of collaboration.
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Drowning In Email? 5 Surprising Life Preservers In Outlook
A leader’s ability to triage, manage and respond to email has an outsized impact on the speed with which her organization can move. Use these life preservers to save your sanity – and your time.
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3 Steps To Harnessing The Cognitive Diversity Of Your Team -- Starting Today
Take a look at your team. Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? Has it recently produced something extraordinary? In our experience, there are a finite set of reasons why a team doesn’t collaborate to its full potential. One of those is failing to harness the power of the group’s cognitive diversity.
