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Conflict Management (French Version)
Wilkinson, Helen; Cardona Soriano, PabloTechnical Note DPON-53-FRLeadership and People ManagementThis technical note is intended to help develop the competence of conflict management. We all know from experience that conflict is a fact of life. And it is not always a bad thing. On the contrary, it can be very positive and stimulating, provided it is kept within certain limits. There are two dimensions to any conflict: rational and emotional. Problems arise when emotional harmony is disrupted. Conflict is a dynamic phenomenon and goes through...Starting at €8.20
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Conflict Management
Wilkinson, Helen; Cardona Soriano, PabloTechnical Note DPON-53-ELeadership and People ManagementThis technical note is intended to help develop the competence of conflict management. We all know from experience that conflict is a fact of life. And it is not always a bad thing. On the contrary, it can be very positive and stimulating, provided it is kept within certain limits. There are two dimensions to any conflict: rational and emotional. Problems arise when emotional harmony is disrupted. Conflict is a dynamic phenomenon and goes through...Starting at €8.20
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Creativity and Innovation. How to Encourage Them
Wilkinson, Helen; Cardona Soriano, PabloTechnical Note DPON-54-ELeadership and People ManagementThis technical note is intended to help develop the competence of creativity. Companies are not creative and innovative in themselves, as abstract entities. If a company is creative, it is because the people in it are creative. But is creative talent confined to a privileged few, or can it be acquired? Talent is made up of attitude and aptitude, that is, the will and the ability to be creative. This technical note looks at how creative attitude a...Starting at €8.20
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Capacity for Change
Wilkinson, Helen; Cardona Soriano, PabloTechnical Note DPON-55-ELeadership and People ManagementThis technical note offers help for developing the management competence of capacity for change. We live in fast-moving times. Change is not waiting to happen; it is going on all the time, without stopping. For organizations, change is not a luxury, but a vital necessity. Companies must be capable of leading the way and implementing change. To do that they need to have a long-term vision and a clear strategy. And they need to have agents of chang...Starting at €8.20
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Human Decisions: The Role of the Will
Stein, Guido; Vázquez- Dodero, Juan CarlosTechnical Note ASNN-10-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementThe objective of this teaching note is to explain why making good executive decisions does not just stem from intelligence, but more importantly from the will of the decision maker. To decide cleverly you have to think cleverly, but above all you need to have strong will. Current thinking about the significance of feelings and their influence on intelligence, usually known as emotional, has led to the anthropological foundations upon which manage...Starting at €8.20
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Inma Shara, the Conductor as Manager
Sánchez, M. J.; Alvarez de Mon, SantiagoCase DPO-104-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementOrchestra conductor Inma Shara shares her reflections on her profession and her life: her professional career, preparing concerts, managing orchestras, people management, creating personal bonds, creativity, discipline, emotional commitments, success, time, balance, etc.Starting at €8.20
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LIPA (B): Decisions about People
Rábago, Eduardo; Stein, GuidoCase DPO-173-ECorporate GovernanceOLTRA, a leading Spanish manufacturer, has acquired the Argentinean firm LIPA. Before any other measures are taken, the acquirer wishes to carry out an assessment of the second-level executives at LIPA. OLTRAs human resources director decides to use assessment centers, which reveal significant differences between the two companies and call for decisions to be made about specific individuals.Starting at €5.74
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Creating and Nurturing your Social Network: The Art of Building Long-term Mutually Beneficial Relationships
Neill, Conor; Ferraro, FabrizioTechnical Note SMN-676-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementNetworking is the art of building long-term mutually beneficial relationships, and this note will describe what social networks can do, what networking is, and what is not. We provide seven suggestions on how to begin the process of building your network.Starting at €8.20
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Recommendations for Developing People in Times of Uncertainty
Stein, GuidoTechnical Note DPON-95-ELeadership and People ManagementU.S. statesman Robert McNamara is sometimes credited with the phrase if you cant count it, it doesnt count. In our companies, however, it is often precisely the things that do not show up in the balance sheet that matter most. In this technical note I discuss these difficult-to-account-for variables, and the benefits they can bring when properly managed, as they are, in fact, perfectly measurable. At the same time, I hope to avoid the psychol...Starting at €8.20
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Omneya Farag: From Cairo to Seattle
Ribera, AlbertoCase DPO-231-ELeadership and People ManagementA young Egyptian software specialist, who works in the Cairo office of a multinational, moves to Seattle to assist in solving some technical problems for which she is amply qualified. The case describes the interaction between the young Egyptian worker and the team in the U.S. (including another expatriate, a Brazilian), and the various styles of assertiveness.Starting at €8.20