Two Dozen Ideas to Help You Develop Your Team

I originally wrote this list a very long time ago. I was speaking to a group of top managers at large manufacturing companies during an economic upswing, and they were all very concerned about how they would get the work done. They knew they played a huge part and they were asking for help. How […]

The Declaration of Interdependence: Leadership

Once the elements of teamwork are operative, the word ‘leader’ takes on a new meaning. It is but one position on the team, and certainly not the most important one. The elements of leadership will apply to everyone, because at any given time, anyone can be called upon by the needs of the team to […]

The Declaration of Interdependence: Teaming

The world – our Deep Space Nine – needs a new mission that is based not on the ideologies and geographies and histories that divide us, but on our shared, fundamental drive to bond together for the satisfaction of our needs, for the progress of our enterprises, and, perhaps, for our very survival. That mission […]

A Good Time for Good Will

Good will, I’ve learned from colleagues who practice the mysterious art of business valuation, is not an easy thing to quantify. There are standard guidelines, but each seems to have a unique recipe or method for assigning a number to intangible assets, and sometimes they even agree. But not often. Especially when they are on […]

Expanding Time

“In effective teams, people are able to share time appropriately. They cooperate over it and in the act of sharing it they actually cause it to expand.” – Dr. Janice Presser Apparently I said that a while back because I found it quoted (with appropriate attribution no less!) a while back. I checked with the […]

First, Fire the Leaders

Another week, another crop of downsizings, and with few notable exceptions, HR people are telling me how they’re choosing the leaders over the non-leaders as the keepers. And I’m groaning inside. Has anyone figured out how companies run when everyone’s a leader? For one thing, no one’s willing to make the coffee. For another, the […]

A Quick Note on Ambition

Ah yes, another Quora reader asked for my opinion on ambition, which sounds an awful lot like the other versions of the same question which use the word ‘leadership’ instead. I have to commend this resourceful lad for considering that the desire to lead may be rooted in one’s desire to rule the world, or […]