Teamwork

Factors That leaders Should Manage To Encourage Trust

by George Ambler on October 23, 2006

I’ve just finished reading an interesting Harvard Business Review article “The Decision to Trust” by Robert F. Hurley. The article discusses a model that leaders can use to predict if others will choose to trust of distrust them. The model is based on ten factors that affect people and their decision to trust another person. [...]

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The Critical Role of Teams

by George Ambler on September 11, 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

by George Ambler on May 26, 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?

by George Ambler on March 24, 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

by George Ambler on December 10, 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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