Better Leaders. Better Results.
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” — H.E. Luccock A colleague of mine that’s been using Agile Results as an individual contributor asked me about how to apply Agile Results to a team as a manager. It’s actually a question that I get a lot, so I …
So, if you have a bunch of smart people, a bunch of bright ideas, and everybody wants to talk at the same time … what do you do? Or, you have a bunch of smart people, but they are quiet and nobody is sharing their bright ideas, and the squeaky wheel gets the oil … …
“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.” — Patrick Lencioni To create high-performance teams, you don’t need the best people in the world. But you do need people at their best. To bring out their best, you …
I was white boarding and naming some team execution patterns the other day with a few colleagues. Here are the Team Execution Patterns what we ended up with: Core Team “One-Man Band” + Best Efforts vTeam “Community Will Do It” Matrix Projects Just because you’re on a team, doesn’t mean it’s teamwork. I’ve seen the …
Are your management practices long in the tooth? I think I was lucky that early on, I worked in environments that shook things up and rattled the cage in pursuit of more customer impact, employee engagement, and better organizational performance. In one of the environments, a manufacturing plant, the management team flipped the typical pyramid …
