Do you have someone on your team who responds to every question about the future with a statement about the past? Are they holding your strategic conversations back? Here are some tips to manage your team historian.
Most teams think that one of the most important activities they do as a team is to make decisions. I argue that teams don’t make decisions and those that try to are less efficient and effective than those that assign the authority for a decision to an individual. Does your team suffer with any of these symptoms of team decision-making?
I have started getting calls from teams that are struggling to cope with the crisis. Do you recognize any of these warning signs from your team. I’m looking for input so I can provide tools and resources to get you through this.
Some changes I’ve had to make to keep working during Covid are actually improvements. Here’s what I’ll keep (and what I’ll ditch) in post-lockdown meetings.
Make your execution faster and more successful by separating these three different phases of the decision-making process.
If you want one way to sound smarter in your writing and presentations, clean up your lists. Poor grammar makes lists less clear and less compelling.
Are you adding value at the right level by envisioning a solution without designing or building it?
If you want to be strategic, you need to be curious, but execution mode reduces creativity. Here’s how to get into the right mode to be strategic and innovative.
I’m deep into writing my new book and I’ve had an epiphany: Organizations are built to require conflict while employees are built to avoid it. I see this impact of this problem every day, but it took me 20 years to name it. Now it’s so clear. We have set up a fundamental tension between […]
Does your team have a “too hard pile?” Is there a list of issues that everyone knows need to be addressed for your business to evolve, but there is tactic agreement that they would be so uncomfortable, so messy to discuss that you just work around them? That’s what happened to a team of doctors […]
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