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Teamwork

Factors that leaders should manage to encourage trust

23 October 2006

I’ve just finished reading an interesting Harvard Business Review article “

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The Critical Role of Teams

11 September 2006

Research by The Ken Blanchard Companies, investigating the needs of organisations seeking to develop their people. The feedback from the research represents 2,044 human resource and organization leaders who ranked team development skills as the fourth most important employee development skill for four consecutive years. What are the biggest barriers to team effectiveness? What are [...]

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How to Build a Great Team

26 May 2006

The article “How to Build a Great Team” by Charlie Feld, provides a great overview of what it takes to build a great team. Charlie found that the “secret sauce” of great leaders are: Character: Doing the Right Thing My definition of character is …. what you do, not what you say. Not only the [...]

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Who should you invest your time with?

24 March 2006

Skip from Random Thoughts from a CTO provides some useful guidance for leaders trying to decide Who do I invest my time with?, he provides the following guidance: Those that ask for my help. Who have come to me and need me to help resolve an issue. Those that need my help. They are struggling [...]

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Leadership Insights from Anne Moore

10 December 2005

Here are some insights I gained from reading “Nine Business Insights from Time CEO Ann Moore, Plus the Mix-and-Match Women“, what a mouthful! The Right People, Our Most Important Asset “The only difficult assignment in business is finding good people and putting them in the right job…. Moore insists that the lessons we teach our [...]

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What Makes Great Groups Tick?

28 May 2005

I stumbled across an article written by one of my favorite authors, Warren Bennis titled “The Secrets of Great Groups” like much of his work it was interesting reading. Warren mentions 10 principles common to all great groups, being: At the heart of every Great Group is a shared dream. They manage conflict by abandoning [...]

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