Players weren’t happy with the team’s leadership under Coach Raymond Domenech, so they refused to do their jobs. Team managers didn’t listen to the players, hurled insults, and lost control, and still another resigned. And now everyone is pointing fingers at each other.

It’s sounds like a typical day at any dysfunctional organization.

A lack of trust, respect and communication can doom any company — or any team — no matter how talented its players or employees or managers are, said David Nour, a consultant and author of “Relationship Economics” and “ConnectAbility”, who has also played and coached soccer.

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There are two ways to think about strategy – the more common view is that companies should match current internal resources with external market opportunities. CK Prahalad’s , University of Michigan strategy professor, view was that companies should set their ambitions first and then expand the resource base to reach that ambition.

So what’s your strategic relationship intent?  What’s your huge ambition for the relationships you seek to develop? What resource base will you need to expand to reach that ambition?…

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Do you suffer from Corporate Relationship Deficit Disorder? Most large (and not so large) companies usually do. In a keynote speech for Sun Microsystems David discusses some of the things that contribute to that disorder and what can be done to fix the problem!

RENetworks – our intelligent, private, enterprise social network is growing faster than ever.  It has become a community of great ideas, great conversations, and great insights.  Below are some new features of the 8.5 version.

Hope you’ll join us and take advantage of our renewed focus to help our clients derive unprecedented growth through unique return on their strategic relationships.

Best,

David

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Here is the list of exciting new features that will be available in this release:

• Session State – We now save a cookie to your browser so when you navigate away from the site, you will not be required to sign in again. If you quit the web browser or click the Sign Out button, the cookie is no longer valid and the site will require you to log in again.
  

• Comments on introCard – This allows you to post a short, public-facing comment on another user’s introCard. Users are able to turn this feature off via the User Settings dialog and delete any messages that appear on his/her card.

  

• Activities on introCard – This  shows the community member’s recent activities on the new Activities tab. It allows you to click through to show all forum posts and resources that that person has created.

• introCard scrolling – The new arrows on introCard allow you to scroll through all previously opened introCards.
  

• Share Links to Content – This allows you to copy a URL link to the clipboard and share the links with others in the community. You are able to share links to the following content:
  

  • Search parameters and results

  • Resource items

  • Forum topics

 

Below are some fixes that we address and have included in this 8.5 release:

• Text

  • Correctly handle encoding for URL links with parameters.  [#2638]

  • Illegal Characters are removed when saving user profiles. [#2629]

  • Remove the extra bullet above a bulleted list. [#2538]

  • MS Office quotes are retained when pasted into our text editor. [#2539]

• Group

  • Display confirmation dialog after inviting users to group is done. [#2539]

• Forum

  • Allow user to click OK only once when creating a Forum topic so it prevents users from creating multiple topic entries. [#2609]

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Specific to relationships, when facing pressure to execute do you choke or panic? You choke when you tend to over think the situation. Panic on the other hand is completely forgetting all that you’ve learned. So, how do you overcome either scenario?  Here are five best practices:

Repetition – Normalcy – Follow-Through – Avoid Distractions – Raise The Bar

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David Nour, founder of Relationship Economics, describes the other aspects of ROI vs. the traditional description – return on investment.

What is your clients’ / prospects’ / members’ / audiences’ return on involvement? Return on engagement? Return on influence? Influence is the leading indicator of your business while traditional ROI is the lagging indicator.