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The Online Gift that Keeps Giving
LinkedIn is a friendly environment within which I find my inspiration and community by keeping up with people’s activities. It keeps me feeling in touch and grateful even with COVID. I’m often amazed at the good works and contribution people find to do from their...
The Online Gift that Keeps Giving
LinkedIn is a friendly environment within which I find my inspiration and community by keeping up with people’s activities. It keeps me feeling in touch and grateful even with COVID. I’m often amazed at the good works and contribution people find to do from their...
Dimension of Team Power #7: Team Trust
“Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good...
Team Power Dimension #3: Encouraging Team Innovation
Wow, we are already on week three of our seven-week series. If you’ve missed the early content, you can start from the beginning by clicking here. Or if you’d rather read the topic in its entirety, you can download my complimentary eBook, 7 Dimensions of Team Power...
Executive Team Building: Team Killers and Builders
Executive team participation is a bit of a chess game. If you saw the first Harry Potter movie you know that sometimes chess can be dangerous to one's health! The Chess Board picture to the right shows a beheaded King, and the one below is called "King under Fire." I...
Why and How: Leader Vulnerability and Leader Transparency
Paradoxically, leader vulnerability is the access to real, authentic power, as scary as that thought is for leaders who have not tried it on. Being vulnerable happens when you are transparent; doing such things as telling it like it is even when the news is not...
Responsibility without Authority Feeds the Drama Triangle
I've been there and maybe you have too — being held accountable for producing a result, then given people to work with who do not report to you. Hah! Good luck! In executive team building the drama triangle must be identified and squashed. Sometimes unwittingly the...
When did you Last Challenge your Core Assumptions?
This is a critical question that causes many companies — and individuals — to suffer unintended conseqences. SO many of our actions are based on faulty assumptions. You really can challenge your core assumptions effectively. I offer you the possibility that doing so...
Why are A-Players Fired? Why do they Leave Voluntarily?
Let’s say an employee — let’s call him John — takes initiative to advance the team’s efforts to reach a goal. After much convincing he had team alignment, but his name was all over this project. His idea and its implementation fail. Is his failure a good thing or a...
Some Kernels of Sage Advice for Building an Effective Team
The importance of having a well-oiled, well-equipped and responsive team has been known and practiced for a long time. Great leaders in history such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were able to conquer whole populations with their teams. Certainly now, as...
7 Key Characteristics of a Great Conscious Leader
Entrepreneurship and leadership are fun, but they also can be a huge challenge. How do you grow your business in a way that is long term sustainable whilst also rendering enough profits such that you can invest in your people and infrastructure? How do you do this...
Why does your What not Work? Could it be Behavioral Preferences?
This blog is a sticky one that could cause reactions. Some folks are open to suggestions, to opinions, to thoughts of others and some are not so much. Optimally, a co-worker would know when to hold the line on their opinion and when to ask for more information before...