Category: Teams and Team Building
Prize Power: Breakthrough innovations for your company
I sat dumbfounded in an audience the other night as I listened to X Prize Founder and Chairman Peter Diamandas evangelize about the power of marrying compelling goals to significant dollar prizes to catalyze innovative solutions for big, thorny problems. The freshness and success of his approach to tackling some of the enormous challenges of [Read More...]
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Digging For Worms
I have been re-reading Jim Collins’ wonderful book Good To Great about what enables some companies to consistently outperform their competitors and develop into great organizations. He’s got a number of compelling insights into leadership and strategy—I heartily recommend the book, but I was particularly taken with the chapter on confronting hard, unpleasant truths. It [Read More...]
View PostInvisible Teamwork
My husband and I had tickets for a puppet show last night– I know, that doesn’t sound too thrilling, but it blew me away. The show was Petrushka, an old Russian folk tale of a sad love triangle between three puppets– a clown, the beautiful ballerina he loves and the moor who eventually kills Petrushka. [Read More...]
Post Mortems
One of the most effective ways to distill the learning from a completed project is to conduct a structured post-mortem review. Way too often project managers fail to harness the group’s energy, knowledge, best ideas and smartest fixes before the group has moved on to the next project. This omission can be incalculably expensive. Taking [Read More...]
Work Jerks
Dealing with difficult people is part of life. Every office, every family, every schoolyard reminds us that there are very different operating systems at work among the billions with whom we share the planet. Many of us are undone by challenging people. We have no verbal – or emotional - training for appropriate response to [Read More...]
Leadership Lessons from Luna the Cat
Recently my daughter parked her cat with us while she visited friends in San Francisco. Her cat, Luna, is small, black as midnight, and fiercely independent. After hours of roaming and exploring, digging and climbing, she typically checks in for a moment of domestic bliss– some stroking, some food, maybe a quick cat-nap, and then [Read More...]
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