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Professional service firms face a serious challenge. Their clients increasingly need them to solve complex problems - everything from regulatory compliance to cybersecurity, the kinds of problems that only teams of multidisciplinary experts can tackle. Yet most firms have carved up their highly specialized, professional experts into narrowly defined practice areas, and collaborating across these silos is often messy, risky, and expensive.

Real critique has become a lost skill among collaborative teams today. Critique is intended to help teams strengthen their designs, products, and services, rather than be used to assert authority or push agendas under the guise of "feedback". In this practical guide, authors Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry teach you techniques, tools, and a framework for helping members of your design team give and receive critique.

This book breaks through both the hype and the doom-and-gloom surrounding automation and the deployment of artificial intelligence-enabled—“smart”—systems at work. Management and technology experts Thomas Davenport and Steven Miller show that, contrary to widespread predictions, prescriptions, and denunciations, AI is not primarily a job destroyer. Rather, AI changes the way we work—by taking over some tasks but not entire jobs, freeing people to do other, more important and more challenging work.

Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the burgeoning growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is folly. Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success.

Certain ideas about business leadership are held to be timeless, and certain characteristics of leaders - often including a square jaw, a deep voice, and extroversion - are said to be universal. In Leading in the Digital World, Amit Mukherjee argues that since digital technologies are changing everything else, how could they not change leadership ideologies and styles? Drawing on a global survey of 700 mid-tier to senior executives and interviews with C-level executives from around the world, Mukherjee explains how digital technologies are already reshaping organizations.

Research indicates that emotional intelligence (EI) accounts for an astonishing 70-80 percent of management success. Technical expertise just isn't enough anymore: Project managers need strong interpersonal skills and the ability to recognize emotional cues in order to lead their teams to success. Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers introduces listeners to all facets of EI and shows how emotions can be leveraged to meet project goals.

A breakthrough book on the transformative power of collaborative thinking. Includes a PDF of charts and graphs to help determine your personality type as well as tips on how to work better with other personalities. Collaborative intelligence, or CQ, is a measure of our ability to think with...

Your employees and teams may be quite capable of handling their specific areas of focus, but unless you get them to work together, your products, services, and profits will suffer. While progress has been made, maximizing collaboration is still a challenge for many companies. They need a new approach. Over the last quarter century, California's Silicon Valley has become synonymous with building complex, successful businesses. Companies and leaders there have succeeded because they did more than apply existing business models - they created a new model.

Ready to transform your business and life? The Coaching Collaboration podcast combines the best of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) and Strategic Coach. Each episode delivers actionable tools and insights you can implement right away, empowering you to achieve remarkable growth and personal success.

Die Zukunft der deutschen Wirtschaft betrifft uns alle – nicht nur in Coronazeiten. Weiter wie bisher war gestern. Heute stehen wir vor existentiellen Fragen: „Was macht Unternehmen zukunftsfähig?“, „Wie wollen wir im Zeichen der dauerhaften Veränderungen miteinander arbeiten?“, „Worauf können wir in diesen Zeiten überhaupt noch bauen?“.

Are you a nonprofit or social impact leader curious about how to make your collaborations more effective? This podcast mini-series, created by the Sustained Collaboration Network and the Network for Nonprofit and Social Impact at Northwestern University, highlights the stories of funders and leaders with impactful integrated organizations (e.g., mergers, asset transfers), shared projects, shared service agreements, and alliances/networks. The podcast builds on two reports, available at sustainedcollab.org, with over 20 case studies highlighting practices that produced positive outcomes for ...

This podcast series explores the core areas of enterprise collaboration including CCaaS, CPaaS, UCaaS. As we understand how these services are transforming the enterprise by making businesses work better.

Think of your to-do list at work. Chances are the most important tasks require you to work with others - and the success of those endeavors depends on the effectiveness of your collaboration. According to management expert Leigh Thompson, collaboration that is conscious, planned, and focused on generating new ideas builds excitement and produces what she calls a "creative conspiracy". Teams that conspire to organize themselves, motivate one another, and combine their talents to meet creative challenges are the hallmark of the most successful organizations.

Conversations About Collaboration is a timely and multi-disciplinary podcast about how we work together. Award-winning author and recognized collaboration authority Phil Simon chats with smart cookies about remote work, the future of work, productivity, technology, workplace culture, and business processes. Oh, and lots of pop-culture references somehow make their way into the episodes.

We created MediatorPodcast.com to discuss mediation with attorneys, financial experts, valuation experts, therapists and other mediators. We focus on how to negotiate during a dispute, how to collaborate to get to a resolution and how to mediate a complex financial matter to conclusion. This is a podcast about mediation, negotiation and collaboration.Melissa Gragg, business valuation expert, mediator and financial neutral. 314-541-8163.

Visual Eyes Podcast — Where Nonprofit Stories Come to LifeHosted by Chris Baker and powered by Visuals by Momo, the Visual Eyes Podcast explores the intersection of storytelling, strategy, and social impact. Each episode features nonprofit leaders, community changemakers, and purpose-driven businesses that are making a difference.You’ll hear: ~ Interviews with nonprofit leaders and industry experts ~ Visual storytelling strategies that connect and convert ~ Fundraising and marketing insights that drive results ~ Spotlights on business–nonprofit collaborations ~ Behind-the-scenes ...

What if your customers had a vested interest in guiding your company toward greater success? What if your employees had a personal as well as professional commitment to elevating your organization? Imagine how different your results would be if investors, vendors, and even analysts treasured the relationships they have built with you. Most important...is your company capable of setting aside a bit of its own self-interest to become part of dramatically more rewarding collaborative effort?

Welcome to The Power of Collaboration with Natasha Malani. We support Founders and CEO’s in South Australia fast track access to: Knowledge & expertise to support with better decision making;a community of like-minded business leaders; andthe resources and funding to enable business growth. We are driven by collaboration, engagement and connections to help our members achieve future of growth and new opportunities. This podcast focuses on the Power of Collaboration. Hosted by Natasha Malani, CEO.

Our companies, our communities, and our planet are facing unprecedented challenges - challenges that will not be solved by a small group of people from a single entity. Today's leaders need a set of tools specifically designed to harness the power of collaborative networks. Strategic Doing introduces you to the new disciplines of agile strategy and collaborative leadership. You'll learn how to design and guide complex collaborations by following a discipline of simple rules that you won't find anywhere else.

In this authoritative and fascinating new audiobook, Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, tears down some of the most popular myths about creativity and erects new principles in their place. He reveals that creativity is always collaborative: even when you're alone. Sawyer's audiobook is filled with compelling stories about the inventions that changed our world.