Swarm creativity

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R. Bruce Williams

Does your team have a difficult time making a decision? Are you trying to build cohesiveness within your team? Are you looking for ways to focus your team's energy? More Than 50 Ways to Build Team Consensus has the answers. This must-have book provides a wide variety of practical ideas, strategies and techniques for both new and experienced team leaders to build team consensus. Each activity includes a step-by-step guide, helpful hints, and examples to assist in the process.

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Helen N. Rothberg and G. Scott Erickson

"In this book, Helen Rothberg and Scott Erickson demonstrate how corporations can combine their competitive intelligence gathering with their internal knowledge management gathering into one dynamic system. Using actual cases from the corporate world, the authors show how the strategic use of this combined system generates measurable competitive advantage. Topics covered include how to develop your strategy for sharing and gathering knowledge across the value chain and global electronic networks, and just as importantly how to protect your knowledge once you obtain it."--BOOK JACKET.

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Michael J. English, William H. Baker

"Winning the Knowledge Transfer Race shows managers how to leverage intellectual capital knowledge to achieve extraordinary results and win against fierce competition. Michael English and William Baker, pioneers and practitioners in the development and application of benchmarking and best practices, provide the solutions and practical steps for managing intellectual capital at the highest level and incorporating it into your company's best practices. This book examines how intellectual capital shapes markets and delivers products and services. You'll see how to apply a knowledge transfer strategy into your department and organization."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bob Hancox, Russell Hunter & Kristann Boudreau

"Could the secret to heightened engagement and increasing bottom line results begin with the quality of your conversations as a leader? This practical book is for busy managers who are looking for more effective ways to get work done through their team members. It's for managers who want to improve their direct reports' performance and ability to generate business results. It's for managers who want to help their people become engaged, focused and productive. It's for managers who realize that they spend most of their day communicating and want to create conversations that have a bigger impact."--Publisher description.