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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. Remote work is challenging teams. You are struggling to make old procedures fit new formats.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. Summit makes short work of analyzing plenty of tough problems. Promote Collaboration Creative people understand the power of group thinking. Don’t be a team in name only.

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EI Helps Teams Use Technology to Fly

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Chances are your problems stem from focusing too much on technology and not enough on behavior. They make the cultural shifts that enable thinking and problem-solving in ways that are compatible with rapid change. They collaborated with popular franchises, developed video games and apps, and created products for adults.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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I am still evaluating the lessons learned. When the Public Health Department was looking at how to reopen safely, they had a sounding board, and we were able to collaborate to develop successful solutions. On the other hand, in Madison, where we didn’t have a Kitchen Cabinet, collaboration on reopening was much more challenging.

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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

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You can build more collaborative teams. Scan the Landscape Internal collaboration is important, but it is only the beginning. Of the four bullets listed above, the last two seem to be the most challenging. Martech changes overnight. You need multiple eyes scanning the digital landscape to stay abreast of current and emerging trends.

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How Grantmakers Can Improve Collaboration Through Empathy and Experimentation

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For example…” What was interesting is that after they made these types of statements, what they all went on to share about how they granted funds, vetted applications, organized their boards, and the process by which they evaluated their grantee partners was very, very similar. Collaboration in a Crisis. Testing Your Assumptions.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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It’s not difficult to evaluate when someone has the right background and experience to do a job. We look for candidates who are willing to be flexible and have the intellectual gravitas to dig into problems that we’re asked to solve every day. Don’t rely on games or group lunches to turn incompatibility into excellence.

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