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Silos are Good, But Need to Cross-Communicate and Cross-Pollinate – (Insight from Team of Teams)

First Friday Book Synopsis

This type of mentality will reduce the efficiency of the overall operation, reduce morale, and may contribute to the demise of a productive company culture.

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Small is Beautiful — You Really Do Need a Small Decision-Making Team/Group

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How big is the team – the group? Your dominant, successful product or service is threatened – now. How much power do they have to make decisions? Those are key questions these days. We’re in an era of fast decision-making. Slow decision-making can leave you behind – way behind. It does not matter if you […].

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A Strong Team + A Compelling Product = A Much Better Chance at Success

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I attended the Southwest Venture Forum yesterday in Dallas. Hall Martin, Director of the Texas Entrepreneur Networks, was a panelist. He has worked with Angel Investors, Venture Capitalists, and apparently lives and breathes new ventures. I suspect he has heard a pitch or twenty from new start-ups seeking money.

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A Team of 10 Could Beat the Army of 10,000 – Microsoft Lays Off Workers in a Lean Startup Era

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But just like the rise of Apple, arguably one of the leanest, best-positioned tech companies to weather the coming years, the winner will be whoever lands on the product that […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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Do you Want to Become More Capable? Or, Your Team? – Learn to Conduct Your Own After Action Review(s)

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First, every employee would be noticeably more productive. Imagine you had enough money to hire a one-on-one companion, a coach, for every employee. What would happen? Second, every employee would stretch to become better. You would have someone saying, all the time, to each and every employee, “you did this well, and this is what [.].

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Two Questions for your Next Team Meeting – Where are we missing it? Where are we hitting it?

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…successful products and strategies are quickly copied. Without relentless innovation, success is fleeting. …there’s not one company in a hundred that has made innovation everyone’s job, every day. ?In In most organizations, innovation still happens “despite the system” rather than because of it.?…innovation

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Would You Like to Read 24 Business Books Next Year?

First Friday Book Synopsis

Books to help you think about: time management, personal productivity, leadership, communication, strategy, organizational effectiveness, working well as a team – collaboration, execution, constant improvement, innovation… The list of challenges is kind of overwhelming, isn’t it? Two a month?

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