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Teamwork: Sharing the Blame! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

So, when I hear the saying “ teamwork is never having to take all the blame yourself ” I know the stress being put on the team is in the red zone. By Sylvia Lafair Now that the old model of command and control is out the window and team collaboration is the norm what has really changed when things go wrong?

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

Fortunately, Akamai’s VP of Human Resources, Steve Heinrich, recognized what was happening and brought in Chuck McVinney, a management consultant with expertise in teamwork and leadership training. There’s no sense in denying, or ignoring, it: Human nature plays a role in everyday technical work. Know thyself.

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

Indeed there is a good deal of evidence that using such individual incentives actually creates self-interest, lowers trust, results in poor teamwork, and diminishes commitment. It must be lived by top management as exemplified in their behavior and in the design of their management and human resource policies and practices.