Ordinary just won’t succeed anymore. Organizations will increasingly depend on cutting-edge solutions to never-before-seen problems and clever ideas for those recurring headaches that have always plagued us. Research indicates that a handful of star performers create the vast majority of valuable ideas for their organizations. These top thinkers, who also deliver stellar results, define theRead more
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People use the word “team” to mean any group of people that works for the same company, shares a common purpose, or has any degree of interdependency. Most companies don’t have teams; they have committees. Beautiful music requires more than a collection of people, however; it demands the collective efforts of professionals who devote themselves to creatingRead 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
“Step to the Rear,” from the 1967 Broadway production How Now, Dow Jones, announces that “here’s where we separate the notes from the noise, the men from the boys, the rose from the poison ivy.” In this rousing musical, the characters center their lives around the stock market and saving the US economy. Helping organizationsRead more
Want to improve profits and grow your business? Give yourself the talent advantage! Hire well, promote the most deserving, and invest in your people. When you do, people in your organization will develop fierce loyalty, exhibit infectious enthusiasm for the work they do, and want to spend their careers growing along with their organizations. WhenRead more
