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Why You Think Your Team is the Best

     Article: Source: New Scientist | 3 days ago

Ah ref! Now you have an excuse for thinking your team always performs best. Your brain perceives the actions of people in your own team differently to those of a rival team.
Pascal Molenberghs at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, divided 24 volunteers into two teams and had them judge the speed of hand actions performed by two people, one from each team.

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RIM's New CEO Is Confident in Strategic Path

     Article: Author: WILL CONNORS AND CHIP CUMMINS | Source: Wall Street Journal | January 23, 2012

 

BlackBerry Maker Seeks to Regain Footing in U.S.; Shares Down 7%

  • Research In Motion Ltd.'s new chief executive said Monday he won't divide the company into parts and is confident in its strategic path, but will be open to licensing partnership offers as they come along.

 

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How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work

     Article: Author: Teresa Amabil and Steven Kramer | Source: McKinsey & Company | January 13, 2012

As a senior executive, you may think you know what Job Number 1 is: developing a killer strategy. In fact, this is only Job 1a. You have a second, equally important task. Call it Job 1b: enabling the ongoing engagement and everyday progress of the people in the trenches of your organization who strive to execute that strategy. A multiyear research project whose results we described in our recent book, The Progress Principle,1 found that of all the events that can deeply engage people in their jobs, the single most important is making progress in meaningful work.

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Building Effective Teams in Emerging Markets

     Article: Author: Alfredo Behrens | Source: HBR | January 6, 2012

Daniel Lewis*, an investor at a Venezuelan equity firm, was in charge of acquiring two textile mills in South America. One was in Maracay, Venezuela and the other in Colonia, Uruguay. The Uruguayan mill's higher productivity persuaded Daniel to invite 40 Uruguayan workers to move with their families to Maracay, to improve output there. The initiative did not work out as expected. The Uruguayans resented the cold shoulder received from the Venezuelans, bickering was rampant, and productivity remained low. Before sending the Uruguayans back to Colonia, Daniel made a last ditch effort: he asked that the Uruguayans be fully entrusted with the denim unit at Maracay. This worked wonders. Left to themselves, the Uruguayan team increased productivity, and this awoke healthy competitiveness from the Venezuelans, whose productivity rose as well.

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Is your leadership image helping or hurting your career?

     Article: Author: Lisa Quast | Source: Forbes | January 6, 2012

 

It’s the New Year, a great time to take a fresh look at your career and determine ways to develop it. Want to improve your leadership effectiveness? Take a good, hard look at the image you project in the workplace because your effectiveness as a leader is tied to your image, according to the Center for Creative Leadership(CCL).
A study by CCL of 150 executives showed that “the image leaders portray correlates highly with perceptions of their leadership skills.” Want to be seen as a strong leader? 

 

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