Walk a Mile in My ShoesImagine this: you are in a heated negotiation, getting nowhere, battle lines drawn, stalemated. You tell your point of view; your...
Improving Time-to-Market with Self-Directed,Cross-Functional TeamsImproving Time-to-Market with Self-Directed,Cross-Functional Teams (In Empowering Teams, An Introduction. S.Gopalan & N. Taher, eds. 2007...
The Skinny on PerformanceMost managers like giving performance reviews about as much as getting a root canal surgery. Ditto with being on the receiving end. ...
A Matter of ValuesLast year, I was the President of the Delta Rotary. We had a guest speaker from Ghana, a small country in Africa. The speaker told us...
Mission Accomplished?The mission statement is often misunderstood and poorly written. This is unfortunate because the mission statement is the organization’s...
Donald, You’re Fired!I like many others, got hooked into the Apprentice series. This series dealt with a group of 10 people selected out of 200,000, to...
Building a Better Team by Looking Under the HoodI’m about to slay a sacred cow here. That “cow” is this: if you want to build a successful team, then you must first have the team...
The 5 Myths of Work TeamsTrue or False? 1. Teams take too long before they produce something 2. Teams that jump right into the project are usually successful. 3....
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