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<title><![CDATA[Conflict in Organizations (31 Oct 11)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Collaboration Mechanisms -- Complex adaptive systems are the source of much intra-organizational conflict that 
will not be managed, let alone resolved. To foster learning, adaptation, and 
evolution in the workplace, organizations should capitalize on its functions and 
dysfunctions with mindfulness, improvisation, and reconfiguration. (No. 108 | 
October 2011)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Political Economy Analysis for Development Effectiveness (30 Sep 11)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/political-economy-analysis.pdf]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Strategy Development -- Political economy embraces the complex political nature of decision making to 
investigate how power and authority affect economic choices in a society. 
Political economy analysis offers no quick fixes but leads to smarter engagement. 
(No. 107 | September 2011)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Primer on Intellectual Capital (23 Aug 11)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/primer-intellectual-capital.pdf]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Strategy Development -- Intellectual capital has become the one indispensable asset of organizations. 
Managing its human, relational, and structural components is of the essence of 
modern business. (No. 106 | August 2011)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On Second Thought (22 Aug 11)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/on-second-thought.pdf]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Knowledge Capture and Storage -- Remembering times past stimulates the mind and helps give perspective and a sense 
of who we are. Social reminiscence is a gain in performance without practice. (No. 
105 | August 2011)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Surveying Communities of Practice (31 Jul 11)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/surveying-cop.pdf]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Collaboration Mechanisms -- Surveys are used to find promising opportunities for improvement; identify, create 
a consensus about, and act on issues to be addressed; record a baseline from which 
progress can be measured; motivate change efforts; and provide two-way 
communication between stakeholders. Healthy communities of practice leverage 
survey instruments to mature into influence structures that demand or are asked to 
assume influential roles in their host organizations. (No. 104 | July 2011)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Moral Courage in Organizations (30 Jun 11)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/moral-courage-organizations.pdf]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Management Techniques -- Moral courage is the strength to use ethical principles to do what one believes is 
right even though the result may not be to everyone's liking or could occasion 
personal loss. In organizations, some of the hardest decisions have ethical 
stakes: it is everyday moral courage that sets an organization and its members 
apart. (No. 103 | June 2011).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Managing Corporate Reputation (31 May 11)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/managing-corporate-reputation.pdf]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Management Techniques -- Newly minted approaches to corporate reputation are already obsolete. Beyond 
gaining control of issues, crises, and corporate social responsibility, 
organizations need to reconceptualize and manage reputation in knowledge-based 
economies. (No. 102 | May 2011)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Delegating in the Workplace (30 Apr 11)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/delegating-workplace.pdf]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Collaboration Mechanisms -- The act of delegating calls for and rests on trust. In organizations, delegation 
had better be understood as a web of tacit governance arrangements across quasi-
boundaries rather than the execution of tasks with definable boundaries. (No. 101 
| April 2011).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Travails of Micromanagement (31 Mar 11)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/travails-of-micromanagement.pdf]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Management Techniques -- Micromanagement is mismanagement. What is it that one should decide in the higher 
echelons of an organization that, given the same data and information, personnel 
in the lower echelons might not run just as well? (No. 100 | March 2011)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Critical Thinking (28 Feb 11)]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/critical-thinking.pdf]]></link>
<description><![CDATA[Knowledge Capture and Storage -- The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our thoughts. Critical thinking 
is the art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it. 
Excellence in thought can be cultivated and fertilized with creativity. (No. 99 | 
February 2011)]]></description>
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