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April 08, 2014 A Shared Purpose Drives Collaboration By Vineet Nayar Ask your team: What are we trying to solve together?

Senior Managers Won't Always Get Along by Ron Ashkenas But even leaders must learn to work with people they don't like. Why Good Managers Are So Rare by Randall Beck Gallup data shows they have a combination of hard-to-teach traits. Assess Your CEO's Strategic Fit Over Time by Marc Effron and Miriam Ort Companies change, and so should the way tenure is managed. Be Kind to Your Employees, but Don't Always Be Nice by Dan Pallotta Great leaders favor tough love over malevolence — and make it clear that they're doing so.

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