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Raising Your Cultural Intelligence
Cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand illustrates that a system’s tightness or looseness correlates with the threats it faces, and understanding this framework can enhance collaboration, reduce tensions, and improve organizational health.
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Systems Analysis
Professor Michael Watkins emphasizes that organizations should be analyzed by focusing on key components—strategy, structure, systems, talent, incentives, and culture—to identify interdependencies and drive improvement, similar to how one would examine an airplane engine by its essential parts.
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Keep Teams on Track with Tools for Aligning Individuals
Retired four-star general Stanley McChrystal discusses fostering shared consciousness and team-based performance incentives to align individuals with organizational goals, emphasizing transparency to prevent rogue behavior and encouraging collective success over individual achievements.
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Optimize Communication Flow
General Stanley McChrystal emphasizes the importance of communication in leadership, advocating for transparency, shared consciousness, and strategic overlaps in responsibilities to build trust and streamline information flow across teams and business units.