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Psychological Safety Is The Key To Successful Teams, According To Google

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Looking to figure out what makes the best team, in 2012 Google embarked on a 2-year long study of 180 of its teams , which revealed some significant findings about how teams function. . Google’s Project Aristotle showed that a team’s success does not depend on who is in the group; instead, success depends on how a team functions. .

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Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2012

Small Business Labs

Gosh, is it already time for 2012 top 10 prediction lists?    I guess so since Gartner recently released their list of the top 10 technologies and trends they think will be strategic for most organizations in 2012. Gartner's top 10 are: 1.    Local search is an example. 

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Top Ten Small Business Trends for 2012

Small Business Labs

  2012 will see more small businesses recognize and take advantage of this key competitive advantage.   This growing ability to network, collaborate and socialize is making independent work more attractive, and 2012 will see the trend towards independent work continue to grow.    Technology Trends.

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Matt Richtel’s New Book Explores the Emotional Balance Between Creativity and Stability

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The question he and his fellow scientists posed in 2010 led to a paper published in 2012. Using a clever computer program, they asked study participants to react so quickly to information that they didn’t really have time to “think.” In brief, the idea is that new forms of life and new ideas are almost always destined to fail.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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It is not illegal for an information technology firm and a janitorial services company to form a partnership, but how many opportunities will that create?” Proof it works: Schaus’s profits grew by 15% from 2011 to 2012 as a result of her partnerships. In 2012 I passed along between 35 and 40% of the work that came my way.

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The final word on… workplace trends

Workplace Insight

In the words of the Scottish poet and anthropologist Andrew Lang, they use information ‘like a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination’. It goes without saying that the commercialised messages often do little to shine a light on complex realities. That is not to say that they things they say are necessarily untrue per se.

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How Workplace Design Can Help Attract Gen Z

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Born between 1997 and 2012, Generation Z currently makes up 30 percent of the world’s population and is expected to make up 27% of the workforce by 2025. Digital Natives – With limitless access to information at their fingertips, they are highly exposed to just about everything or can easily find details about anything.

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