Book Review: The Outstanding Organization

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Reminder: I’m taking your questions and the best one will win a prize – read to the end for details… Got Results? Does your business struggle to stay focused and accomplish the results it exists to achieve? If so, you want to read Karen Martin’s The Outstanding Organization. Martin writes from a simple premise: Chaos [...]

But I Thought We Were Friends – How to Lead Peers

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How Could You? He was angry. His tight words and finger stabbing the air made it clear: he felt betrayed. “How could you let this happen?” He had just been fired…by the President of the Company. “Me?? I’m not the one who skipped out on the team over and over again.” He may have been [...]

How to Get Clarity, Accountability, and Results in 5 Minutes

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Frustration! The team and I had just invested three hours wrestling with significant issues. We defined the criteria that would make for a good decision…we had healthy debate among different opinions…we listened…we looked for alternatives…we considered consequences to the organization…we pushed hard looking for the best answers… And finally we made a decision. Or we [...]

Avoiding the Waterfall

Have you ever led, managed, or been a part of a team/organization that was: a) constantly bickering?b) so tied up in bureaucracy that every form had a form to request the form?c) hamstrung by office politics?d) full of people lacking passion and energy? If one or more of these characterize your organization or team, it’s [...]