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On my own
I know from prior education that the experience of being 'on my own' kicks into gear a automatic strategy I invented ages ago for surviving the experience; for me, it is to get serious and determined...to work really hard and forge on through. This strategy is bankrupt however, and will leave me laboring harder vs working smarter.

Finding the Right Fit with a Mastermind Group to Propel You to Success
One thing which really increases the chance of long term success is having a support system. Typically when you think about your support system you will think about the people closest to you and whether they “are there for you” or not.

What You Need To Know Before You Join A Community Problem Solving Effort
As a business owner, one way to build community awareness and loyalty to your company is to volunteer on an important community project. Beware. Some of these projects can dissolve into conflict and confusion. Here is what you need to know to make sure that doesn't happen.

Success: The Collaborative Win

For some people, success is everything. Winning at all costs is the name of the game. Collateral damage is calculated. If someone is hurt in the process it’s unfortunate, but that’s the way it is. You will hear leaders say things like, “You are either with me or against me.” There is no middle ground. Some people call these leaders good business people. Others call them short sighted. Loyal followers abandon ship when it is clear the collateral damage includes them or when their personal values and integrity collide with business practices as usual. Is there a better way? This article looks at success from a collaborative perspective where winning strikes an effective balance between how work is done and the people who acieve it.

Risk: Making the leap

As a collaborative team value, the ability to take calculated and well-reasoned risks is a foundation for building an effective organization with the capacity to learn about itself, to expand and grow. When fear is present, however, growth and forward momentum stagnate. This article looks at organizational behaviors and practices that both encourage and discourage an employee's willingness to take appropriate and well-reasoned risk. Risk is the fifth of six values that build collaboration in groups. Without risk being t6olerated at the cultural level, many organizations penalize people for thinking.

EMPATHY – CAN YOU WALK A MILE IN THEIR SHOES?
Emapthy as a collaborative team value is necesaary for team conflict resolution. Yet work teams report that team conflict is one of the largest problems facing teams today. This article explores the collaborative team core value, empathy, and behaviors that both build and negatively effect empathy in the work place.

Being Genuine Why Conflict and Confrontation Is Good During Uncertain Times
Genuineness is a learned behavior and skill each person brings to the team. The good news is that being genuine can also lead to conflict and confrontation which are important for organizations in uncertain times. This article reviews the value of confrontation to growing and thriving organizations and offers six ways to instill genuineness into the workforce.

Using Visioning Activities to Lead to Future Success
It's easy to get bogged down in the nitty-gritty of your existence as a manager from day to day. Surviving even in the short-term can become a challenge - and that's on a good day! But what about making it better into the future? What can you see?

How Workplace Relationship Building Solves Problems Best
Problems are a part of any manager's day. They come at us thick and fast, providing challenges on many levels. With your team, many of these can be fixed. With the full involvement and collaboration of your team - even better - many can be solved for good...

The Black Hole of the Workplace

How many times have you heard, “that meeting was a waste of my time”? To understand the dynamics of meetings, read on. It’s more than Roberts Rules, way more!! It’s about the relationships in the room and how we all struggle and want to be a part of the group, the ‘in crowd’ as we used to say. Maybe we still say that!! And it’s about how we learned to manage relationships and where we learned this. Explore how you feel about meetings and your role in creating meetings of collaboration and trust.

Top Ten Ways for an Entrepreneur to Improve Joint Venture Success
While National Entrepreneurship Week falls in the last week of February in the USA, and the rest of the world who celebrates it, does so in November. This year may find the timing ripe to have entrepreneurs save economies around with the world, with joint ventures. Whether it's labeled joint venture, partnering, collaboration or cross-promotion, here are ten ways to get started:

Somatics of Collaboration: reading for the Collaboration Clinic
Successful collaboration requires relational skills that originate in the bodies of the participants. This paper begins to explore these skills, and provides some guidelines for self-assessment. How good of a collaborator are you?

ENCOURAGING AND SUSTAINING COOPERATION

Organizations are complex structures with many interdependencies. We must rely on others to help get things done and meet our objectives, and that means cooperation and collaboration are often the key to our success. While there is evidence that human beings base our actions on self-interest in an effort to maximize personal benefit, ample evidence also supports the proposition that our natural inclination is toward cooperation. The challenge you face in the workplace is to ensure the conditions that create and sustain cooperation and collaboration are in place.

Creativity - Of Course You Have it In You!
Creativity - Of Course You Have it In You! OK, you might call it problem solving, but it's also called creativity. Any time you start with nothing and create something, voila! Creativity at work! The idea applies to business building and marketing as much as it applies to making art. If you think about it, it can even be applied to marketing art.

3 Rules for Integrating New Employees into the Workplace
There are certain cardinal rules to follow and they are as important as filling out the required forms for insurance and all the other parts of business. There are emotional factors at work whether you want them to be or not. If you tackle these areas you are guaranteed to have a better chance of new employees ready to sprint from the starting gate.

Open Innovation vs Outsourcing
Open Innovation and Outsourcing both involve the use of external organisations to 'get things done'. However they are not the same thing. This article explains the differences and explains when to use each of them.

Embodied Leadership
Becoming an effective manager involves understanding your own work ethic and habits and learning to utilize the skills of your team in a collaborative manner. Cooperation and communication are key to achieving individual and team goals. A successful team creates a successful manager.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page Quotes
Sergey Brin and Larry Page Quotes

Lesson #3: Preserve Your Reputation No Matter What the Cost
As his success solidified and his name became a regular feature in the households of America, Hines found himself on the receiving end of numerous offers for collaboration from other entrepreneurs and businessmen. He was relatively new to the game, and he needed their help to expand his business while he could still capitalize on his successes - or so they thought.

A CEOs Thoughts on Collaboration

I had breakfast with Matt Blumberg – the CEO of Return Path – yesterday. I’ve worked with Matt for at least six years and love the way his brain works. During my frustrating quest for the best chocolate croissant in Boulder (so far all of the ones I’ve found appear to be exactly the same – I’m guessing there is one chocolate croissant distributor in town) we talked some about “collaboration.”

Collaborate or Die! Me, Seth Godin and John Jantsch
Here are two great tips on collaboration – a major theme in WGYB – from marketing whizzes Seth Godin and John Jantsch. Seth and John will be joining me in the first of several FREE teleseminars – go here to sign up for the call, June 8 at 12ET. To see the list of other great authors involved in the WGYB calls, visit my blog.

Collaboration – The New Competition
Over the coming years, we will see collaboration become the new competition. Markets around the world are crying out for collaboration as innovation and differentiation become scarce in a sea of commoditised products and services. Sales people who see themselves as collaborators, both internally (colleagues, departments) and externally (customers, competitors), will prosper more than ever.

Use Strategic Alliances to Grow Your Business

Many of today's successful businesses are built on strategic alliances -- a collaboration of resources for the purpose of gaining an advantage in the marketplace. This is especially true of virtual businesses, which are usually based on a network of people in different locations, with defined roles, in a temporary or evolving organization. In order to grow you need others. If hiring an employee or contracting for service is not the right solution, a strategic alliance or partnership may be the answer. Engaging a "partner" in the process means you will share risks, responsibilities and rewards. Strategic alliances are a great way to create or test new business ideas without a huge expense, but it does require attention and good management to succeed.

Your Consulting Business and Web 2.0
Using the internet to move your consulting business forward requires more than putting up a web site. Are you really leveraging the new social media aspects of the web for the future benefit of your business? Leslie Allan prods your thinking on how to use this new medium as he reviews a provocative white paper on this important business topic.

The need for collaboration
This article focuses on the importance of accessing other resources to help accomplish much needed tasks. Joint projects can be beneficial to cooperating organizations.

How Win-Win Strategies Can Reduce Risk by Lowering Chances of Competitive Retaliation
Traditional models of competition may be dead. Sometimes we need to focus on creating systems where our competitors will benefit as well. Research by Brandenburger shows a number of industries such as automobile manufacturers who have not only prevented competitor retaliation but even got competitors to stand by them.

Engaging Your Collaboration Universe
In my view one of the most positive things the Internet and its host of associated web applications has fostered is our ability to collaborate over space and time.

Text To The Future: How Dorsey, Stone, and Williams Achieved Success

“We wanted to capture that feeling: the physical sensation that you’re buzzing your friend’s pocket. It’s like buzzing all over the world,” recalls Dorsey of the name-choosing process. “We came across the word ‘Twitter’ and it was just perfect. The definition was ‘a short burst of inconsequential information,’ and ‘chirps from birds.’ And that’s exactly what the product was.”

Lesson #3: “There is something healthy about friendly competition”
“There’s a lot we can learn from smart people out in the world,” says Stone. “One of the things I like so much about President Obama is his global vision that it’s not a zero-sum game, where one country is going to win the game of earth. We have to work together.”

A Chinese puzzle: the battle between sales and marketing
Sales and marketing should be working together – but all too often they don’t. The author explains why – and suggests a training solution

Sales is a team effort

Sales numbers and sales processes should be understood and owned by everybody in your organisation. In today’s world if you are not directly in sales you are supporting someone who is. This is why sales really is a team effort. Rather than being just about a feel good factor and great staff alignment, this has practical applications as well. For instance with the ability for customers (or anyone) to find and connect with anyone in your organisation through many difference channels (i.e. social networks, Google, etc.) the whole business needs to be sales fit.

The Trusted Advisor Relationship - Developing Empathy

Enlightened businesses today hire leadership consultants and executive coaches to help with their leadership development programs. However, increasingly a number of my clients now prefer me to help them in the role of trusted advisor rather than expert consultant. This special partnership based on mutual respect and collaboration helps clients achieve desired results. The role of trusted advisor is open, transparent and fiercely client-centered.

Essential Traits of a Trusted Advisor

Enlightened businesses today hire leadership consultants and executive coaches to help with their leadership development programs. However, increasingly a number of my clients now prefer me to help them in the role of trusted advisor rather than expert consultant. This special partnership based on mutual respect and collaboration produces sustained results. The role of trusted advisor is collaborative, transparent and fiercely client-centered.

HR Guide to Using Yammer to Stay in Touch with Employees and Colleagues
What is Yammer? Yammer is a free social networking service based on employees' answers to the question: "What are you working on?"

9 Proven Leadership Skills to Expand Your Business
Whether you work with remote "virtual" teams of assistants or within a corporate environment with teams of managers and employees, the way you "lead" determines the success of your business - it has nothing to do with "luck".

Home Based Business Opportunity - Collaborating will Take It to Greater Heights
All businesses which have been successful in their venture at some point or the other taken help from other businesses or mentors, in other words, collaborated with businesses to compliment their work. There is no reason, why you cannot apply this same formula to your own home based business opportunity no matter what product or service you sell. How can this bennift you?

How to become a “roving sales leader”
Management By Walking Around (MBWA) took the management world by storm in the 80’s. The author of this ground-breaking management theory was Tom Peters. He was immediately hailed as a “leadership genius” and touted as “one of the top management gurus to come along in over a century”. It really wasn’t that big of a deal. MBWA is really just common sense…

Twitter-savvy job applicants only need apply
Companies are favouring new hires who have social networking skills.

10 Leadership Lessons from the Tour de France

As many readers will know, I am passionate about cycling. I love the complex interplay of personal discipline with teamwork. I love the combination of brutal effort and chess like strategy. I love the epic scenery and the cool gadgets - I love it all. This week the 2009 Tour de France enters it’s final, decisive week. So in a blatant bid to get more people interested in cycling - here are my 10 leadership lessons from the Tour...

Down Times Are the Best Time for Business Innovation
Down times are the best times to grow and innovate business because innovation is an immediate source of increased revenue and builds customer loyalty. Consequently, the best innovation comes from your current loyal customers.

Lead Your Team to Top Performance!
First-rate leadership is the key to inspiring outstanding performance, commitment, and collaboration within communities, families, and organizations. Here's how to to lead your team to great success.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention: An Entrepreneurial Call to Arms
Calling all entrepreneurs, we have to take matters into our own hands. Credit has dried up, commerce appears to be paralyzed, but not our spirits. The vision of hope lies with the entrepreneurial spirit. I know that in crisis, there are also possibilities and solutions.

Interview Questions For Managing Consultants
To help you prepare for your Management Consultant Interview, here are some typical questions you can expect to hear… Behaviour/Skill: Decisiveness Definition: Takes personal responsibility for decisions having considered both the short and long term implications

Different times call for different action
Strategic partnerships based on marketing and sales collaboration.

Are you Freelance Ready?

Most freelance assignments start small--non-staff providers are hired to complete specific outsourcing projects. But when these freelance specialists prove to their outsourcing employers that they can be relied upon, there is soon an increased allowance for more remote working hours and the performance of increasingly vital tasks. Soon freelance providers may find themselves fully integrated with the outsourcing organization's in-house staff, thus marking a change in the relationship between outsourcing employer and freelance provider. We've been there--oDesk hires freelance providers to work with our in-house staff on several different outsourcing assignments, and on some projects, one type of worker is virtually indistinguishable from the other.

What is Social Media Marketing?
As a marketer, I find this topic overwhelms and confuses many business owners. Quite frankly, even in the marketing world - the jury is still out on the trends. But rest assured - social media is not going away. As our children grow up and take over corporate North America, the names of the tools may change, but the overall usage will only become more and more in use.

Leveraging Generational Diversity
The different generations at a glance and how to utilize the strengths of each

Cracking the Social Media Puzzle….What Else You Need to Sharpen Your Teeth
Accounts of applicability of social media in bringing customers closer to businesses have become cliche over the time. This feverish pitch about the application of social media in marketing has reached to an extent where the marketing pundits have started calling it Marketing 2.0.

Finding the Right Alliances to Double Sales

Today’s business climate requires more sales with less effort and less employees. Finding the right strategic business alliance can double sales. Picking the wrong partners costs you money, time and revenue. The wrong alliance partnerships is like eating chocolate-covered jalapenos, they start out sweet and bite you in the end. Strategic alliances are the conscious collaboration of individuals and/or companies to mutually grow. All parties involved must make an effort for the success of the relationship. Passive relationships seldom bear fruit. Focus on those that you can manage and trust to ensure growth. Spending time creating the right alliance relationships that matches your customers pays tremendous dividends.

REAL Teamwork: A Leadership Lesson from the Dugout
How can you avoid exhausting attitudes that drain mental energy and sour workplace successes? What's one simple analogy that can help support collaboration and cooperation? This quick and simple lesson "from the dugout" might help you and your team re-frame the big picture when it comes to accepting the nuances of being a team player.

4 Tips For Spiritualpreneurs To RecessionProof Your Business

Are you a Spiritualpreneur? This is someone who is Spiritual Entrepreneur. Spiritualpreneur’s are people who want to build their business and expand their business in a new way. Spiritualpreneurs also want more in their life. They want health, balance, a greater sense of collaboration and connection. And the way to do that is really to use both an inner and outer approach. Are you a Spiritualpreneur ready to change your dominant vibrations so you can have the business and life of your dreams?

Trigger Events and Sales 2.0
Web 2.0 enables Sales 2.0 and many sales people can take customer communications into their own hands and to an entirely new level. Sales reps have more control over the tools that they use, and they can be always on, answering to customers questions in the matter of minutes and not hours or days.

How does policy either motivate or undermine employee performance?
In an excerpt from a November 20th post in the Procurement Insights Blog titled "How Leadership Repeatedly Under-Mines Their Most Valuable Procurement Asset" (see below), I discussed the impact that current procurement policies and environments have on purchasing professionals within their respective organizations.

How do you motivate people to accept and work with the company's new ERP
Member Question: How to motivate people to accept and work with a newly implemented ERP system? How to overcome resistance and change the employees mindset? Question Submitted By: Kai-Uwe Sielaff Sales&Marketing Professional / Senior Commercial Management [LION] (Kai-Uwe.Sielaff@email.de) Viet Nam

The Two-Minute Drill
A co-worker who has been a critic of your work in the past is promoted to become your supervisor. What's your best career strategy? In this situation, you not only want to survive, you want to thrive. And, believe it or not, you can do well in these circumstances. Here is a three point plan for success.

Best Practices for Operating Virtual Meetings

Since the 1990s, many organizations have found themselves downsizing, rightsizing, suicidzing, merging and acquiring. What often results is the creation of multiple worksites for various parts of a corporation. As such many meetings now lend themselves to speaking with and working with cross-functional teams worldwide. And with the creation of multiple forms of communication establishing global meetings no longer requires simply an airline or telephone. Now individuals can converse through multiple channels to increase productivity and collaboration.

3 Steps to Act Like a Successful Director at Work
Sylvia Lafair explains how good leadership skills make one of the best directors of all time successful at claiming Academy Awards/OSCARs time and time again.

The Important Distinctions Between Relationship, Collaboration and Performance Benchmarking
The interactions between marketers and their agencies are becoming more complex and being able to benchmark these interactions is important. However, it is important to distinguish the difference between collaboration, relationships and performance benchmarking to ensure you are optimizing the most appropriate criteria in the process.

21 Pairs of C Words to Consider
A casual comment by a presenter at a conference we were facilitating led us to quickly build these word pairs for you to consider. Think about each pair, the tension between them, the relative merits of each, and which you value more (and apply) in different situations. We believe you will find this exercise as enlightening as we did.

Top Ten Tactics for Team Building Success
Bosses who lead the best businesses. realize early on that they cannot run their business alone. As their business grows, it just becomes unmanageable. Then, trying to lead it alone, it will either kill them or, slowly but surely, they will fail. Time to call for help and get your team building off the ground!

Easy Team Building Tactics - Making The Most Of More Of Your People
Unexpected recognition for a job well done is very, very validating for your people. It's how you do it that counts...

Ask Me Another - Just One More Thing
Building strong relationships is all about having two sides appreciate each other and want to build a bond that works both ways. This can generate the enormous benefits of collaboration. Here are twelve benefits why...

World of Turk: How Millions are Helping Billions

In the 1960’s, the Beatles’ famously sang about getting by “With A Little Help from My Friends”. Today websites like Wikipedia, Word Press, and Amazon are bringing a whole new meaning to the concept of relying on others to help you reach your goals. In the digital age friends are not so much “friends” as they are collaborators, and these collaborators are generally anonymous strangers motivated by either a small sum of money or a desire to contribute to a shared project. From a massive online encyclopedia to secretive government initiatives, people around the world are facilitating a digital phenomenon.

Social Media: Set Your Employees Free

Every morning while I’m getting ready for work, my two little boys get to watch some TV. My wife and I have decided that a little Disney Channel in the morning is not going to rot their brains, and we limit their TV time to 30 minutes each morning and evening. Today, I asked my three year old son what his favorite show was, and I was a little surprised to find out that Phineas and Ferb had replaced his previous favorite, Mickey Mouse. However, it quickly dawned on me that this Disney snub was hardly the result of the fickleness of youth. Since his exposure to television is quite limited, my son only watches five shows in total. Of the five shows he watches, two of them had already been “favorites” leaving him with only 3 actual choices (so Mickey shouldn’t take it personally).

Create Rockin’ Relationships in Business
Some people have high standards when it comes to who they hire, partner with and accept as a client. The rest of the world wants something better for themselves but think they have to tolerate whoever enters their space. What if rockstar business relationships were only a perspective away? And of course, they are.

Top 10 'Pain in the Business Butt' Reasons to Collaborate
Collaborating is done every day in corporate organizations. But what is holding back the entrepreneur, or the solopreneur from collaborating or creating joint ventures to help boost both their visibility and their business success?

The Village: Gaming to Overcome Poverty in Africa
As you might have realized from past posts here, I enjoy computer gaming. I just recently came across a new game called “The Village” that is being created to simulate a third-world village. Your goal is to use your entrepreneurial spirit to raise this village out of poverty.

Be the Centre of Your Tribe
A common theme in business and professional circles is the idea of building a "tribe" of loyal supporters around your business. The Internet has made this happen, but its effects spread far wider. Even if you're a successful business owner already, with unique knowledge, a captive audience and a loyal customer base, you must change.

Turn competition into collaboration
Sometimes we can be too quick to classify other companies in our market as competition when closer examination could uncover potential mutually beneficial alliances.

Collaborate - It's the Path to Success

You might not have noticed it, but collaboration is an important trend today - whether you're a one-person business working from a home office or a large multi-national corporation. You can collaborate with your colleagues (the most obvious choice), but also with clients, suppliers and even competitors. For example, if you and a competitor offer complementary, rather than competing, products and services to the same market, this is a perfect opportunity to join forces with them to present a better solution to your market

Web 2.0 Gives Power to the People
Web 2.0 puts the power of the Internet in the hands of the user, not the Web site owner. It's all about communities, forums, collaboration, participation, sharing and the wisdom of crowds.

Internet Users Hbk - Chapter 10b What are Affiliate, Pyramid and MLM Programs?

Chapter 10b. What are Affiliate, Pyramid and MLM Programs? 10.7 8 Key Factors That Define a Good Affiliate Program 10.8 Change the Affiliate Marketing Term 10.9 Past and Current Issues with Affiliate Marketing: Email Spam, Search Engine Spam, Adware, Trademark Bidding, Lack of Self-regulation and collaboration, Lack of Industry Standards - Certification and Training, Threat to Traditional Affiliate Networks, Cookie Stuffing 10.10 Which Affiliate Program Is Right For Me? 10.11 Single-Tier, Two-Tier, and Multi-Tier Affiliate Programs 10.12 Ebay Policy MLM, Pyramid, and Matrix programs

Collaboration & Team Building for Sales Force Management Growth
Collaboration & Team Building: Adding Value to Your Employees

Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (Part 4)
Segment 4 – Internal & External Collaboration: A Desire versus Skill! Internal & External Collaboration In order to extract the significant gains that collaboration can bring, companies will need to enable best-practice multi-lateral collaboration between supply partners, achieve integrated product development, and employ “customer of choice” positioning.

Collaboration in The Nonprofit Community- The Many Benefits Of Working Together
Collaboration is a process where two or more parties get together to work on common goals. The advantages of collaboration are numerous, and they benefit all parties involved. Collaboration helps organizations save time and money, and provide quality services to their clients. This article lists what I feel are the major advantages of collaborating with your colleagues.

Collaboration- A Challenge for You
Collaboration- A Challenge for You

Collaborative Leadership: A Process for Success in a Turbulent World
Do you know how to provide collaborative leadership in a disciplined fashion? And how does one define disciplined collaboration? Collaboration - and successful collaborative leadership - does not derive from "where" or through "which" media people interact. Instead, it is about "how" people interact. And that "how" must be disciplined.

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