There are many people who are not really interested in learning how to think well, because their comfort zone would be disturbed by their true abilities.
Tag Archives: Collaboration
Highlights from International Business Summit: Friday 26th March
Press release received: The NATC’s Coverage Of The International Business Summit Tampa, Fla. – The National Association of Tourism and Conventions (NATC-TV) covered the 4th International Business Summit that was held on March 11th here in Tampa Bay. The event bought together nine multicultural Chambers of Commerce, Coca-Cola, the Tampa Port Authority, and other corporate [...]
The Tampa Bay International Business Council – Brighthouse Diversity Awards
We invite you to enter for the TBIBC Diversity Awards. Please submit your application to Bill Flynn, President, Huijun Yang, Chairman or Glynis Ross-Munro, Vice President. You may also submit your application to a Board member of the TBIBC, or a member bi-national chamber of commerce of your choice. The current members of the TBIBC [...]
Gender Diversity Creates Wealth: Norway and (now) Sweden use the science.
Ansgar Gabrielsen, a male Norwegian businessman and politician, is an expert on the details of a 2007 Catalyst study, The Bottom Line: Corporate Performance & Women’s Representation on Boards, Gabrielsen’s focus has not been on gender equality. His interest is in “the fact that diversity is a value in itself, that it creates wealth.” He [...]
Write for results and effectiveness, in a new economy
We skim-read and E-write (often while multi-tasking), for very good reasons. We live in a world where everyone is communicating more and more through writing, while living though an explosion of information and complexity. Only a small percentage of our workforce are trained in the skills needed to manage information overload, and to communicate effectively [...]
International Business Summit 2010
The 2010 International Business Summit will be held at Higgins Hall (cnr Hillsborough and Himes) on Thursday, 11 March, 2010, beginning at 9 a.m. (Registration: 8.30 a.m.) IBS is in its fourth year, as an annual event that brings together the diverse communities of Tampa Bay to build economic prosperity for the Tampa Bay/Suncoast area. [...]
Operational planning, and the role of collaboration
Once, in a different economic era, The Boss went into his/her office, closed the door, and wrote the company or departmental operational plan (or “business plan” as it was often called). Today, international studies of managers who develop and implement operational plans show that the following key competencies are required for this process: Planning [...]
Collaborative intelligence
First there was IQ, then emotional intelligence. Studies show that EQ still beats IQ as a factor in business success, but now there is a new predictor for business that win, people that succeed, and economic achievement. CQ, or collaborative intelligence, combines the ability to think well, and to think collaboratively with other people. It [...]
Ethics are key in collaboration and creativity
Corruption and ‘mismanagement”. Madoff defrauds charities of billions. The mayor of Baltimore has apparently gone on a shopping spree with gift cards donated for the poor. Millions of dollars are missing in Iraq, banks refuse to report what they have done with billions in public money. You can go further back – the Katrina frauds, [...]
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