The most unhappy people in a company are the ones who don't fit the culture and are allowed to stay. They know they don't belong. Deep down inside they don't want to be there. They're miserable.
Ripping the Band-Aid off quickly is
I believe in the old saying that if you can’t measure something, you can’t improve it.
Building a team is hard
On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see some...
Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.
When people come together and set aside their individual needs for the good of the whole, they can accomplish what might have looked impossible on paper. They do this by eliminating the politics and c...
The five behavioral manifestations of teamwork: trust, conflict, commitment, accountability and results
Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.
I coach soccer, and my wife and I are very involved in our kids' lives. Our family is busy with doctor appointments, soccer practice, school, work, travel, vacation... life.
No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting.
In consulting, entering the danger comes into play in those moments when you’re in a meeting and someone says something that is either strange or politically sensitive, and you know that the level of...
If people don’t weigh in, they can’t buy in.
Because when a team recovers from an incident of destructive conflict, it builds confidence that it can survive such an event, which in turn builds trust.
Нетребовательная команда… страдает от взаимных обид, когда одни работают хорошо, а другие — плохо; косвенно поддерживает посредственность; срывает сроки и показатели; взваливает все бремя ответственно...
The naked approach is certainly not limited to our field. It applies to anyone who provides ongoing, relationship-based advice, counsel, or expertise to a customer, inside or outside of a company. Or...
People in a healthy organization, beginning with the leaders, learn from one another, identify critical issues, and recover quickly from mistakes.
Which would seem to be a good thing—proposing a solution to a problem that people are hungry to solve—except that my view of silos might not be what some leaders expect to hear. That’s because many ex...
When a group of intelligent people come together to talk about issues that matter, it is both natural and productive for disagreement to occur. Resolving those issues is what makes a meeting productiv...
Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital that is available to them.