Job Descriptions Gone Bad
What’s your role? Ask this question of a team member in an organization that has not optimized its talent, and the response is a long list of tasks related to functional responsibilities.
A Team That Achieves Big Things
The truth about what is holding us back – and therefore the solution which we covet – is often camouflaged. When a team thinks the answer is working longer hours, or always needing more resources, or changing the behaviors of “those people”. . . the team...
The Individual-Contributor Myth
No achievement worth bragging about is accomplished alone. Yet, despite that wisdom, organizations create thinking (and therefore, actions) that conflict with a requisite of success: Together we are exponentially stronger than an employee acting alone. The...
Good Enough to Win
‘Tis the season: There are teams completing 2015 having achieved their targets – yet, some feel like failures. They won on the spread sheet, but not in their hearts and minds: • Maybe they had to sell the organization’s soul cross the finish line. • Or possibly...