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Collaboration

Good leaders balance advocacy and inquiry to resolve conflict

25 May 2008

Striving towards a vision and bringing about successful change is one of the hallmarks of leadership. However, vision equals change and change is often accompanied by conflict and tensions within and between teams. The leaders ability to effectively resolve this conflict and get people to move forward, acting to bring the vision into today is [...]

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Context, Purpose, Drama and Conflict: The secret sauce of great meetings

24 March 2008

Patrick Lencioni author of the numerous books including "Death by Meeting" wrote an interesting article "Avoid ‘Death by Meeting’" which provides some great insights on creating an effective meetings. Patrick describes the two primary reasons meeting are ineffective as..

Meetings lack drama. Which means they are boring.
Most meetings lack context and purpose.

 
Drama and Conflict
Great [...]

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Moving Beyond Debate: Start a Dialogue

22 April 2007

I posted previously about the importance of leading through conversation.  Leadership conversations are those difficult conversations we have about exploring who we are, what we value, what we stand for and where we are going. They’re about breaking new ground and exploring together the future that we want to create. Often the staring point for these type of conversations is a [...]

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How to improve your effectiveness when leading from below

29 March 2007

With organisations under pressure to constantly produce short-term results there is a need to have leaders at all level within an organisation. Leadership today is not about position or authority, it’s about influence and responsibility. And those who are leading from below, rather than from the top of an organisation have a unique set of [...]

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Eight principles that support a collaborative system

23 October 2006

In an article The Philosophy Behind Our Systems by Emily and Dick Axelrod they propose that:
Systems succeed or fail, based upon the philosophy behind them.
I think that this as true of leadership, here are some of the philosophies that The Axelrod Group build into the collaborative systems they design.

Principle 1: A compelling purpose creates interest. [...]

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Book Review: How to Make Collaboration Work

14 August 2006

How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions by David Straus describes the principles of collaborative problem solving in organisations. In the book, David describes collaboration as:
“the process people employ when working together in a group, organisation, or community to plan, create, solve problems, and make decisions.”
The need [...]

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The Practice of Facilitative Leadership

6 August 2006

Facilitation is a key leadership practice in the fast paced, complex and changing environment we live in today. The Systems Thinker Newsletter discusses the importance of adopting a facilitative leadership style, in their article, “The Art of Facilitative Leadership: Maximizing Others’ Contributions” by Jeffrey Cufaude.
Leadership traditionally has been thought of as “doing the right thing” [...]

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Research Reveals Collaboration Is a Key Driver of Business Performance Around the World

13 June 2006

Research by Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications, a leading provider of advanced communications and information technology (IT) solutions, sponsored by Microsoft, found the following:
Collaboration is a key driver of overall performance of companies around the world. Its impact is twice as significant as a company’s aggressiveness in pursuing new market opportunities (strategic orientation) [...]

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Ed’s Path of Leadership: Excellence, Initiative and Impact

12 December 2005

I found this post from Ed Brenegar from Leading Questions very interesting….. Here are some snippets from the post that caught my eye:
EXCELLENCE
“Leadership is first and foremost a quality of an individual…….So, the first step along the path to leadership is to recognize that leadership is a product of character, not just skills and techniques [...]

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Implications of Poor Collaboration within Organisations is Weak

12 July 2005

Research by the Hay Insight, Hay Group’s survey research division found that Companies Risk Greater Employee Turnover and Lower Productivity Without Improved Teamwork.
“Hay Insight employee opinion research confirms that most organizations today are struggling to establish effective collaboration/teamwork and communication across departments. The current research is based on findings from our database of approximately 1.2 [...]

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