Thoughts on people, teams, organizations, communities, effectiveness and success
The are teams – start up teams, executive leadership teams, project teams – that work. And there are teams that don’t. Here’s how you can get the former, and avoid the latter.
The difference between the two is not so much in who is on the team and who is not, but how the teams are formed and how they go about their business.… Read the rest
The best adage I know for good cooking is captured in the phrase “Proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
For teams, the perfect saying might as well be “Proof of the team is in the performance.” And while we’ll hear a lot about good and bad teams over the next couple of months – from the Super Bowl, to the Winter Olympics, to the US men’s and women’s collegiate basketball tournament known as “March Madness” – the fact of the matter is that the best teams are teams that perform well when called on.… Read the rest