Why Harmonized Teams Beat Unified Teams

Why you should assemble people with diverse strengths, prompt different points of view and reward harmonic thinking over unity.

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The Only Six Viable Approaches To Talent Management

Treating everyone the same produces schools of average ducks. Instead sort people by performance and role fit and invest, support, cherish, move up, over or out as appropriate.

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How To Decide When To Partner, Contract, Relate Or Transact

Plan ahead to give yourself confidence in your results. Read ahead to make the best of whatever situation you find yourself in. Or you could wing it and wonder why…

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If You Can’t Plan Ahead, At Least Read Ahead

Plan ahead to give yourself confidence in your results. Read ahead to make the best of whatever situation you find yourself in. Or you could wing it and wonder why…

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How To Work For A Millennial First-Time Leader

It’s happening. We’re not going to have to worry about managing Millennials any more. They are already the largest cohort in the workforce...

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Three Good Reasons To Support Your People’s Passion Projects

Leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best together to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. More forceful leaders try to get others to be…

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How To Create And Assess Ideas Better: Merge IDEO’s Human-Centered Design And BAC’s Scratch

The path to better ideas runs through creating, assessing, pausing and then doing it again as appropriate. This is based on a couple of premises: 1) Beginnings are magic...

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What You Can Learn From How The Best Shoeshine Organization Anywhere Does Wright Things Right

Awesome experience? Own the vision and values, do the big things yourself that only you can do right and inspire and enable others to do the rest.

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The Importance Of Filters In Communication

Everything communicates, but not everything you say communicates in the same way. Account for your audiences historical and cultural context.

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