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APRIL 25, 2016

A big thank you to all of the donors from the First Friday Book Synopsis that made contributions to this event, which is to dig wells and… Read More CCN Team Runs Well at R4CW – 2016. The 2016 5K race was held on Saturday, April 23 at O’Banion Middle School in Garland.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Please join us in welcoming Carmen Coreas to the Creative Communication Network team. Her featured presentation is entitled, “It Ends With You,” which she markets through CCN to agencies and shelters dedicated to helping victims… Read More Welcome Our New Associate to the CCN Team.

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JULY 20, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Imagezoo/Getty Images Jimmy Black Kendall Marshall Global Wealth & Investment Management for Bank of America LinkedIn Phil Ford Raymond Felton Sallie Krawcheck the best performing teams are diverse teams The Secret to Putting Together an Insanely Successful Team Ty Lawson'

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

In other words, we feel like we can’t quite get our footing… I thought of this as I… Read More We have moved from a Map World to a Whiteboard World – (Insight from General Stanley McChrystal, Team of Teams).

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AUGUST 11, 2015

It’s interesting… Just after I presented my synopsis of Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, (with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell) at our monthly First Friday Book Synopsis, Google announced it’s reorganization into a “Company of Companies.”

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FEBRUARY 17, 2014

So, if you are on an executive team – at or near […]. You know – “here are the 15 questions you should be able to answer right now… “ I tend to think “visually” more than in lists. But, sometimes, a list is just right. Randy''s blog entries'

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AUGUST 3, 2015

And, as I read as thoroughly as I… Read More In the era of complexity, small, occasional deviations can have massive impact – More Insight from General McChrystal’s Team of Teams.

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JULY 18, 2011

What makes a team work can feel like a mystery. While you can’t guarantee success, you can give your team a better chance by being sure it has [.]. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here.

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JULY 23, 2011

In Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances, published by what was then Harvard Business Press (2002), J. Richard Hackman sets out five basic conditions that leaders of companies and other organizations must fulfill in order to create and maintain effective teams: 1. Teams must be real.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Sometimes, you just need to pull your team aside for a good discussion… So, I was asked to help come up with some discussion questions about this era of perpetual innovation. These might be useful for any leadership team “let’s think about things” discussion. #1 Randy''s blog entries'

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JULY 11, 2016

Alternative title for this post: “It takes a team to produce a champion” Andy Murray just won his second Wimbledon championship. I’ve loved reading about him, and his finals opponent Milos Raonic; their backgrounds, their current coaches; their “teams.” Side note: I went through college on a tennis scholarship.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

I lay out evidence demonstrating four things: (1) the leadership industry… Read More Executive Level Book Synopsis Presentations – Maybe just what your Leadership Team(s) could use.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

“work and play well with others – the world is made up of teams.” Ken May, CEO, Topgolf ———————- This is what it boils down to – who do you have on your team? Every other question seems to come after this one. Ken May, CEO of Topgolf, spoke at Success North Dallas this morning.

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MARCH 24, 2011

To sign up for a free subscription, to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Cross-functional teams can be notorious for generating reports, recommendations, and suggestions for implementation — but no actual results. Next time you manage a team of [.].

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MAY 15, 2013

Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results Roger Schwarz Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” ” Kenyan Proverb The last time I checked, Amazon offers 52,820 books for sale in the category “business teams.”

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APRIL 13, 2012

To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * If you were looking for teams to rig for [.].

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AUGUST 28, 2014

How big is the team – the group? 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. Your dominant, successful product or service is threatened – now. It does not matter if you […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

If your leadership team is only meeting about “what are our problems this week?,” Time is precious. Calendars are full. But, not so full, not so precious, that you should not carve out some corners in your schedules for some content-driven thought. then you will never take a bigger-picture look at what you should be focusing on. […].

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AUGUST 23, 2011

The word “team&# is so commonly used in today’s organizations, most managers are oblivious to its true meaning. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Most team leaders know to help their team define goals, but the conversation shouldn’t stop there. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. You also need to agree on the mechanics of how the [.].

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MARCH 7, 2013

HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Teams Various Contributors with Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Most teams self-destruct. Don’t let that happen to yours.

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

The Secret of Teams: What Great Teams Know and Do Mark Miller Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2011) High-impact leadership + high-impact teams = high-impact community Mark Miller is the co-author with Ken Blanchard of a previous book, The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do, now in a second edition.

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MARCH 7, 2012

Most team leaders know to help their team define goals, but the conversation shouldn’t stop there. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. You also need to agree on the mechanics of how the [.].

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AUGUST 15, 2011

Contrary to popular belief, teams are not always the best way to get work done. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here.

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APRIL 20, 2012

To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Teams in large organizations can easily get tangled in bureaucracy. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. It takes a long time to execute on projects when waiting for approvals and [.].

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NOVEMBER 9, 2015

I began with a PowerPoint introduction, and included this slide: The body language of the students, and the interaction that followed,… Read More People don’t really work for Companies – they work FOR Bosses, WITH Teams…

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JULY 24, 2013

Here is sign #5: A healthy organization is effective at building and nurturing successful teams. We work in teams, on teams. In my introductory post, 12 Vital signs of Organizational Health, I listed the 12 signs. We live in an era of collaboration. We work with other people – we work together. And, no matter which […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 15, 2011

To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Think of a team of military commandos [.]. James Wilson and Elaine Eisenman for the Harvard Business Review blog.

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

I think, as a New Year’s resolution, you should re-dedicate yourself to the idea that this is a team. You play for a team. A team with many players. See a team’s made up of a group of individuals — Individuals who forsake their own individual needs to pursue a common goal. The team goal.…

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 20, 2012

To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Teams in large organizations can easily get tangled in bureaucracy. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. It takes a long time to execute on projects when waiting for approvals and [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

In Tom Kelley and David Kelley’s book, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (to be published by Crown Business, October 2013), they offer some excellent advice on the “care and feeding of an innovation team.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Sometimes, you just need to pull your team aside for a good discussion… So, I was asked to help come up with some discussion questions about this era of perpetual innovation. These might be useful for any leadership team “let’s think about things” discussion. #1 Randy''s blog entries'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 17, 2011

To sign up for a free subscription, to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Cross-functional teams can be notorious for generating reports, recommendations, and suggestions for implementation — but no actual results. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. Next time you [.].

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JULY 2, 2013

When you put together a team, you think first and primarily of the “formal-official” roles. Who will be the Team Leader? Every team needs a “cheerleader.” What “job” will each member fill? But, it is the “informal-unofficial” roles that might save you.

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JUNE 3, 2015

Supervisors love anything that smacks of team building… Heidi Grant Halvorson, No One Understands You and What to Do About It First, join a team Student speech, on “Always Be a Team Player” ——————– I’ve just finished my careful reading of No One Understands You by Ms. Halverson. (I

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JUNE 20, 2012

The Innovative Team: Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results Chris Grivas and Gerard J.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Building Better Teams Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why some teams “shoot out the lights”…and most don’t Those who aspire to help create and then lead create teams that deliver high-impact results will find the material in this HBR book invaluable.

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