collaboration

Ask the Strategist: Rules for Collaborating with Driven People

2 Comments / Business, Career, Strategy, Work / Sebastian Marshall

“Ask the Strategist” tackles your questions about productivity, operations, decision making, and results. Hey Sebastian – One of my most persistent collaboration issues is working with forceful, headstrong personalities. A powerful, long-term drive can simultaneously create a deep and innovative subject matter expert as well as a deeply entrenched viewpoint and working style. As a technical worker, […]

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Book Brief: Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen

Business, Career, Life, People, Strategy / Sarah Eadie

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen 2000, Penguin Books The Idea The hardest conversations are typically the most important ones (and the easiest to screw up). Thankfully, three smart souls from the Harvard Negotiation project have hooked us up with this gem, a book that

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Find a Hole and Fill It: What Marxist Literary Criticism Taught Me About Community Building

Strategy / Michael Roderick

As an English major, you take a lot of classes about the text of famous literature. And often, the very first class you take is Literary Criticism. It’s a class makes you look at the books you’ve read in different ways. You may, for example, find that The Little Mermaid is more about patriarchy than

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Game Plan: How Your Community Affects Your Success

Career, Life, Strategy / Ciara

This is an excerpt from Game Plan: Achieve Your Goals in Life, Career, and Business. Subscribe to Pregame this month and get the digital version free! Once you begin to open your possibilities and expand your vision, you’ll quickly have an epiphany: other people know how to do stuff better than you do! When I finally started

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Who Are Your People?

Career, Life, Strategy / kevinurban

As I sat down to write this article, I had a huge case of writer’s block. I was having trouble connecting to the topic that I’d chosen, which was, “Finding YOUR people.” The post was originally meant to help you identify the people who can count on to support you in your life and in your

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Chasten Harmon on Big Goals, Creative Collaboration, and Performing Beyond Broadway

Business, Career, People / Ciara

Chasten Harmon has that rare combination of creative talent and business acumen, and she has it in spades. Shortly after graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she made her Broadway debut in the revival of Hair. During that same year, she launched Space on White, an arts rehearsal and performance space in Tribeca NYC

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