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Teams

[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 Entrepreneurs] The Secret(s) to Your Start-Up

February 13, 2010

Things are bubbling in the technology start-up world: not 1998 frothy, but clearly bubbling nonetheless. And even while there is sobering reality – for example Tom Abate’s piece yesterday in the San Francisco Chronicle Why Silicon Valley Faces Fresh Threats – there are telltale signals that things may be changing. Signs of a cautious optimism [...]

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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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[Life Back West] December 2009 – The Darkest Days

December 15, 2009

In earlier times, people in the northern hemisphere marked the winter solstice – the time of the year when daylight for the hemisphere is at its shortest – with rites and rituals. Even today those traditions live on with things like the California Revels and their event productions held in Oakland. This time of year [...]

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[Apple, AT&T, and Dotster] Why You ARE your Customer Service Business

July 4, 2009

Tim Weyland worked in the culture change world when we were colleagues at McKesson. It was good work, hard work, and a tough challenge to move an organization from an efficiency and hierarchy mindset to a customer focused and effectiveness mentality. Recent experiences with Apple, AT&T and web services company Dotster are examples of the [...]

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