In 1986, former California state legislator John Vasconcellos established the “Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility.” This prompted a three-year, twenty-five-member investigation into the effect self-esteem has on society. As it turns out, we really don’t need more self-esteem; we just need fewer task forces. Helping organizations and individuals achieve aRead more
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As my clients emerged from the global economic turmoil that began in 2008, they indicated they had learned numerous lessons—the most important one: When leaders make good decisions, little else matters. When they refuse to make decisions or show a pattern of making bad decisions, nothing else matters. As I helped these leaders position themselvesRead more
In 1992, relationship counselor John Gray wrote the highest-ranked work of non-fiction of the 1990s: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. Gray drew criticism from every corner, primarily because he lacked credentials. Few thought his communication courses in psychology had prepared him to assert that most problems between men and women occur becauseRead more
You’ll be most motivated to spend time on team analysis when your team faces a roadblock, but often that will be too late. A more proactive approach would be to do some teambuilding when things are going well. To do that, you simply ask the members of the team to examine the eight critical functionsRead more
Many theorists have tried to explain how and why teams develop. Each theorist offers a different perspective of leadership, but most agree that leaders need to be concerned with the group’s content, process, and output. Advice differs about how the leader should address each of these, however. One of the most popular theorists, B.W. Tuckman,Read more
