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Making Your Operating Culture More Productive: Five Tips You Can Implement Today

Author and leadership expert Michael Watkins describes culture as an organization’s “immune system.” Like the human immune system, a strong operating culture protects companies from harm. Built on a foundation of realistic goals and common priorities, it helps a company and its people thrive—ensuring resource allocation is standard, and employees aren’t over-allocated. Put simply, it focuses on end-to-end work across the company’s horizontal dimension—not on the parts inside functions.

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Collaborative Work Style: How To Bring Leaders On Board

Understand True Collaboration

Observe a typical meeting within your organization. Is a leader co-creating with others, actively engaging them in the planning or decision-making process, or simply collecting inputs so she can create a plan or make a decision on her own?

There's a major difference between the two.

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Drive Your Meetings To Outcomes: Key Skills for the Global Leader

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Span of Influence: Authority Isn't What It's Cracked Up to Be

ABCPharma*, a pharmaceutical manufacturer, was struggling with delivering their orders on time.   

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Collaboration Is Not the Culprit

Let's take a look at some of the most common collaboration mishaps.

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Collaborative Leadership: Worth the Extra Work

What do you picture when you hear the words "collaborative leadership"?

  • Is it a leader who figures everything out and then gets input from the team?
  • Is it a painful process of trying to get everyone in a room to agree to something?
  • Is it a bureaucratic process that takes too long? 

If so, then you've haven't seen true collaborative leadership in the works!

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Documenting Team Accountability

Our Matrix Management 2.0™ Team Accountability Chart is a simple tool for documenting both team and individual accountability. It eliminates micro-managing and empowers team members to understand exactly what they’re accountable for.

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Best Laid Plans... Lead to Great Results!

— By Cathy Cassidy, Managing Director, Matrix Management Institute

Plan smart

And, here are two tips to get you started…

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Master the Matrix: 4 Tips to Help You Lead Matrix Teams Successfully

Before we discuss tips, there are two essentials every leader needs to know about leading and managing a matrix:

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Working Cross-Functionally

—By Cathy Cassidy, Managing Director, International Matrix Management Institute

7 Tips for Leading Cross-Functional Projects

It usually falls on the shoulders of the project leader to lead teams that are cross-functional within an organization that is aligned functionally. These seven tips will help you define and create alignment to cross-functional team goals without needing authority.

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