Includes embracing collaboration, collective intelligence, and combined capability. Generates synergy among all involved to maximize positive impact.
A core principle of Cooperative Advantage is that leaders can grow the overall pie by intelligently serving both the whole and each part. The key is integrating, seemingly incompatible, positions into unified action that serves all. Integration moves differences and conflict …
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The Opportunity Smart leaders will use the corona virus as an opportunity to improve how employees work together and interact. By identifying and practicing new disciplines we can improve how we work together remotely. The skills we learn will also improve …
Powerful questions can accelerate group coherence and amplify group performance. By connecting with, and sharing highpoint moments from the past people can see and experience the best in one another. For example we can reflect on the following question: …
Too often our actions are based on dysfunctional habits and protective patterns rather than choice. In 2006, a Duke University researcher determined that more than 40% of daily actions were based on habit. For your brain, this is efficient since …
Almost everyone complains of wasting time in meetings. And as the evidence in The Wisdom of Crowds demonstrates there is great potential in collective intelligence. Yet without the right structures and social dynamics, meetings produce negative synergy. Well-executed meetings on the other …
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One December I was working in London. A week into my project for Eurotunnel all the trains in the city were seriously late. British Rail blamed the delays on “the wrong kind of snow.” The next month I was in …
Are the Trains in Your Organization Running On-Time? Read more »
I remember when I first started leading consulting teams. I was disappointed in my team members; they had so few good ideas. It seemed I had to do all the deep thinking. Boy was I wrong. I was unaware of …