by Rick Goodman It’s tough being the new guy. That’s true when you’re in grade school and it’s still true when you’re a grown-up: Coming into a new workplace environment—especially one with a tight-knit team
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The Blindspots We Can Avoid… And the Cost if We Don’t
by Tom Rieger We Simplify. We Unify. We Justify. And Then We Fail. And after we fail, we look back and ask ourselves why we didn’t see it coming. There are spectacular examples of this, including US Steel,
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Harness Purpose & Discipline to Achieve Success
Book Review by Andy Ghillyer After the cold war, the Army War College in the United States coined the acronym VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity to describe the new military landscape. For aspiring business
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The Four Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership
The more you care for your teammates, the more they will dare for the team. In Unstoppable Teams, Alden Mills, three-time Navy SEAL platoon commander and founder of the company Perfect Fitness, reveals how to
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Root Canal or Team Project: Which is Worse?
by Sarah Dayton The American Association of Endodontists describes getting a root canal as: “relatively painless and extremely effective.” Yet, “I’d rather have a root canal than – insert even more painful event here,” has
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Harnessing the Power of Emotions to Fuel Extraordinary Performance
Great team results depend on tapping the incredible power of emotion. Negative feelings such as fear, anger and frustration can inhibit a group’s performance. The most optimal emotions stimulate team innovation and productivity because they
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10 Ways to Be A Valued Team Player
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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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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