Teamwork is the Key to Great Leadership
Bill Flemming, president of Skanska USA Building Inc., works for the people below him. They don’t work for him. During an interview with Adam Bryant, Fleming said: “I’ve seen organizations where the...
View ArticleOne of The Biggest Issues For Global Virtual Teams: Time Zones
According to responses from 379 randomly selected HR professionals in a survey conducted by SHRM, the most common obstacles preventing virtual team success include the following. 51% – building team...
View ArticleInnovative Teams Need to be Kept Down to the Essential Few
The Sunday New York Times had an interview with John Nottingham and John Spirk who founded and run the innovation consulting firm Nottingham Spirk. In the interview they share some very worthwhile...
View ArticleTop Firms Have the Highest Engaged Employees According to AON Hewitt Study
Employee engagement is an increasingly favored topic as evidence mounts that its benefits are tangible. Along those lines we are seeing some successful experiments in the areas of “community” or...
View ArticleAre you Disconnected From Your Team?
Some leaders have a real grasp on the power of social networking tools and are using them not only for marketing, but as a way to better manage and lead their organizations. A blog post by Vineet...
View ArticleSucceeding Through Mindset: The Work of Carol Dweck
Some people don’t mind going through a failure, while others are terrified and will do everything to avoid one. According to Carol Dweck, one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of...
View ArticleScience Dissects High Performing Teams
Alex Pentland, a professor at MIT, has been experimenting with and developing clear measurable metrics that identify high performing teams. He’s then turned that data around and used it to come up with...
View ArticleLearning From the Masters of Collective Intelligence
With current technologies and collaboration tools, the idea of collective intelligence has a good chance of being utilized in increasingly valuable and imaginative ways. We’ve posted several articles...
View ArticleInter-Professional Teams: Shifting to A Culture of Learning
Dr. Felice Tilin The healthcare industry no stranger to teamwork and has increasingly utilized inter-professional teams comprised of a diverse group of experts. Inter-professional teamwork is not...
View ArticleSome Advice on Managing Multi-Generational Workgroups
Today’s reality is that the workforce is now commonly comprised of multi-generations all having to work together. On top of Gen Y and Gen X, Boomers are having to work longer and there are still...
View ArticleSelf Managing Teams: Composition is Key
In a study on self-managing teams, it was found: “Members of teams that are genuinely managing themselves show three basic characteristics in the way they approach their work: They take personal...
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