My wife and I are sitting in the Denver airport waiting for a flight back home from spending five days with our best friends. We were there to help them prepare their home for their sick mom. As we sit here at the gate, I find myself reflecting on this trip and how things often don’t go as planned, neither…
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Hint: defining a winning team structure is not enough
Empowered teams. Self-managed work teams. Projects teams. The list of emerging teamwork strategies could go on forever, trending on to the next best-ever management theory in rapid succession. No matter what new team management strategy becomes the flavor-of-the-month, my own experience tells me that successful, high-productivity teams always possess these two fundamental characteristics: A common goal A management committed to…
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