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Team Facilitation

[Tips for Leaders] How to Avoid Off-Sites that Suck

March 9, 2010

With a nod to Kelly Clarkson, the first part of a fiscal year for many firms is “off-site” time. Leaders go with their teams to a place off-site with hopes that a change of scenery – and sometimes a round of golf or some collegial dinners – will change dynamics and improve performance. It probably [...]

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[Coaching Tips] No “I” in Team – Not Even a Team of One

February 22, 2010

Scott Berkun, whose work I generally like a lot, recently wrote a piece titled Why You Should Be a Team of One. It is a rare miss – a dud, and advice frankly which should be ignored. Scott has written three books: all are quite good. His most recent, Confessions of a Public Speaker, is [...]

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[Tips for Teams & Talent] What’s “Glee” Got to Do With It?

January 31, 2010

Glee, the Fox TV show in its first season that just garnered a Golden Globe for best comedy television series, has something for everybody: jocks, nerds, deceivers, beauty queens, and true believers. The regular glee, a choir activity in which people both sing and dance – like the TV show – provides a great illustration [...]

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[Talent Keys for Entrepreneurs] It’s Not Just About “A” Team Players

January 17, 2010

Sachin Rekhi’s post PayPals Wars and its Lessons for Today’s Entrepreneurs caught my attention as I surfaced between US professional football (NFL for the locals) league play-offs this weekend. While there is much about the post that is spot-on right – strong vision coupled with short term pragmatic goals, push decision-making down as far as [...]

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[Letter to an Alma Mater] Dear Willamette University President M. Lee Pelton

September 27, 2009

Dear Dr. Pelton , It was great to meet you last week and your twelve-year tenure as Willamette’s president has been a time of great accomplishment and progress. The school has prospered academically, the quality and diversity of students has increased, and the physical plant in gorgeous. Fundraising, something that can be challenging, has been [...]

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[U.S. Independence Day] What Made the Founders So Special?

July 2, 2009

It’s easy in troubled times – the Great Depression and World War II in the 1930′s and 1940′s, the late 1960′s and today’s times all come to mind – to wax nostalgic for the "good old days" and the presumed leadership that guided a nation’s people through those times. Great leadership, whether it’s community or [...]

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