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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There is Lewis Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  ‍

In the story, she imagined there was a Looking Glass...

Leaders are starting to place more emphasis on performance and career conversations with their teams.  The motivations vary... investing in talent, charging up the environment with a...

Men's and Women's hockey has a player statistic that no other sport has. It is called the Plus/Minus score: If you are on the ice when your team scores, you get a +1. If you are on the ice when the...

This post will touch on a few slightly disconnected elements of building high performing teams: Why Teamwork Isn't More Important in Business, Psychological Safety, Rookie Mistakes, and The...

One of the best ways to increase your chances of success with team building is to just avoid making rookie mistakes.

Here are three and some ways to avoid them.

Have a model. You can't build a...

We regularly hear laments about our win-at-all-cost culture.

Don't worry, this isn't one of those “what’s the world is coming to?” posts.

Winning is, of course, great, but...

Like the Taoist Farmer story, the story of the Empty Boat is often used by Executive Coaches to help their clients gain perspective.

Here’s a short version of the story:

A fisherman is...

The most significant undertakings at work and in society depend on teams of people working together effectively. Oddly, organizations largely leave effective teamwork to chance.

My colleague and...

I had been staying with my mom for a month, nursing her 98-year-old body back to a relative state of health after a downturn.

I am not sure what really happened prior to me getting there, but I...

When individuals, teams, and entire organizations lose their moorings, the need for focus and leadership is greater than ever.  This Covid-19 crisis is clearly one of those times.

So what can...

As the joke goes, it is not the fall that kills you.  It's the sudden stop.

Hundreds of thousands of virtual teams have formed, almost overnight.

From a team effectiveness standpoint, the key...

At some point in their careers, the good leaders discover inside themselves what Jack Welch calls a "generosity gene." When the traits of that gene...to continue the metaphor...manifest,...