Problem solving skills: A.C.T.
… because every problem in business needs an acronym to solve it, right? Continue Reading
Teamwork
What should team development really look like?
It’s less about rushing to your next meeting and hiring consultants, and more about thinking through the process. Continue Reading
Five factors for effective work teams
Even though no one seems to understand their success with living, breathing people — instead attributing it to cash or hand or KPIs or margins or some other BS — Google has long been one of the ‘best places to… Continue Reading
The myth of team diversity
According to some recent research from Northwestern’s Kellogg School, diverse teams tend to actually perform more poorly than non-diverse teams. There are seemingly three basic reasons for this: Diversity erodes over time: As people work together for a while, their views and… Continue Reading
Who cares if you’re an individual superstar if you can’t work on a team?
Found this article on Forbes via Digital Tonto. It’s about individuals vs. teams in terms of development, etc. Here’s the final paragraph, which kind of summarizes everything (as final paragraphs tend to do): All of this points to a major change in… Continue Reading
Future of work: For a team to evolve, the leaders need to evolve
Start here, and start with this: A company used to be able to dominate the competition if it focused on creating an effective group of verticals. But in today’s world, leaders using the network model can quickly outpace those who… Continue Reading
On business innovation vs. tenure
Here’s a concept I don’t think a lot of people think about: we all know it can be bad to work at a place where there’s consistent turnover (people always leaving), because then priorities get skewed and it’s hard to… Continue Reading
Some evidence that “cross-functional teams” are BS
From here: This is just one example of the dysfunction that exists in cross-functional teams. In a detailed study of 95 teams in 25 leading corporations, chosen by an independent panel of academics and experts, I found that nearly 75%… Continue Reading