Leaders – you should call, email, tweet, and instant message Kelly Ripa to thank her for what she did for you this week. If you listen closely to what she said, you will learn what most employees think and feel, but will never, ever tell you.
For those of you who didn’t follow the details of her story, she went live, on TV, and blasted her leadership for the lack of consideration. Then why am I telling you to thank… Read the full article >
The team with exceptional performance is essentially its own organism, as Duke Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski pointed out when he said, “To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” Building a strong organization with scalable success requires building a great team. It can mean the difference between outstanding success and crashing failure.
You can’t just bring the pieces to the table. You have to work to put them together.
In her iconic 1952 gospel single “The Ball Game,” Sister Wynona Carr tells us, “Life is a ballgame, but you’ve got to play it fair.” Fair play includes things like building your strengths, overcoming your weaknesses, and developing the chemistry that allows your team to work together as something greater than the sum of its parts.
The ballpark is the source of many great lessons for teams of every type.
The Great American Pastime has been compared to all sorts of life situations, and the analogy is usually apt, because baseball,… Read the full article >
Traditional thinking is that collaboration is driven from the top down. The fatal assumption is this: that the leader sets a vision for teamwork and then people will eventually come along. In theory this makes sense, and some element of this is true. Yet it misses something essential: employees hold the keys.
The fact is that much of collaborative process comes from the bottom up. Yes the leader must have a business need driving the need for collaboration such as innovation to beat the competition, quicker responsiveness to customers’ requests to close deals, better quality products. And they must… Read the full article >
After a working with an American global leadership team for a few days on the coast of Spain, Lawrence Polsky, co-founder, shares a CEO’s misstep and learning.
