A team player is someone who gets along with others in the workplace and contributes to the company’s success. Typically, a team player is more concerned with accomplishing group goals than looking out for number
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How to Create a Solid Team
There is generally no such thing as a successful “lone wolf.” Talent might win the game, but it takes teamwork to capture the championship. Nearly everything I have accomplished so far has been the result of a group effort. From
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What Ideal Team Players Are Made of Ideal team players possess adequate measures of humility, hunger and people smarts, according to Patrick Lencioni in The Ideal Team Player. They have little ego when it comes
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The time in which we live is unique in that this is the first time that four generations are working side-by-side in the workplace: the Traditionalists (born before 1945), the Baby Boomers (born 1945-1964), Gen
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Laura Stack makes an amazing claim in her book Execution IS the Strategy. She states that strategy must emerge out of execution, and she provides four premises for this approach. Interdependency – strategy and tactics
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If there’s one certainty in business today, it’s this: Change is coming your way. You have no choice in the matter. The choice you do have is either to embrace it or bury your head
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QUICK AND NIMBLE Out of the Mouths of CEOs What are the core elements of an effective culture that encourages and enables innovation, and how can leaders create such a culture? These two questions are
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New Revelations About Trust Whether to trust or not trust someone is a recurring dilemma in our lives. One of the fundamental lessons of The Truth About Trust, a new book from psychologist and researcher
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SMART LEADERS, SMARTER TEAMS Getting Leadership on a Positive Wavelength In Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams, author Roger Schwarz argues that many leaders fail today because they cling to the leadership approach of what he calls
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Many of you are probably familiar with a book by the people at Vital Smarts called Crucial Confrontations. It has been a best seller for several years with over a million copies sold. This year
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“If you think about what it takes to close a deal, it is very much dependent on you, as a sales professional, to harness and leverage the skills and talents of everyone around you –
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