Pick Yourself First

Seth Godin has a podcast episode on Akimbo about getting picked for a team (You’re It).  Very few of us were consistently picked first, and many of us

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The Blind Spot in Want Ads

“The major blind-spot in want-ads is an assessment that we need to increase the number of people engaged in production, rather than increasing the production of value through

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Don’t Read This!

Too late… you already read the title, didn’t you? Well, there’s actually a deeper point here and it involves reading the signs within our organizations. The peculiar thing

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Competence-based training

Marcello Tobar asked about Competence-based training on LinkedIn: “Competence-based training is popular nowadays. I wonder if there is enough evidence to state that competence-based training is better for increasing

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Is a lack or fear of conflict really a dysfunction of a team?

“In Patrick Lencioni’s book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, lack of conflict was identified as one of the 5 reasons why a team can be/is ineffective.  Personally,

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