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Walk a Mile in My Shoes
Imagine this: you are in a heated negotiation, getting nowhere, battle lines drawn, stalemated. You tell your point of view; your...
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I was asked by the Contra Costa Times Newspapers to write a monthly column on the psychological issues of management. The articles below are a sample of what I wrote for that column.
Improving Time-to-Market with Self-Directed,Cross-Functional Teams
Improving Time-to-Market with Self-Directed,Cross-Functional Teams (In Empowering Teams, An Introduction. S.Gopalan & N. Taher, eds. 2007...
The Skinny on Performance
Most managers like giving performance reviews about as much as getting a root canal surgery. Ditto with being on the receiving end. ...
A Matter of Values
Last 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 Hood
I’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 Teams
True 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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