TEAM TIP To fundamentally change the system you are in instead of making surface-level fixes, you and your team members must reinvent your- selves…

During the last few years, our team at the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) has been working on an important but little examined…

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Suppose you’re a team leader who’s been asked to spearhead a major change initiative, such as the implementation of a key new software application.

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