Chart Your Course

JUNE 23, 2016

There is a direct relationship between leadership and project success. Transformational leadership will drive the achievements of your project, but it is team building that makes it happen. Think of team building as the truck that carries the leadership to the project’s success — it is the No. Golf Ball in the Bag.

Teamwork 100

Teamwork Strategy Team Building Sports 100

Leading with Trust

MAY 22, 2022

As Ken Blanchard and I point out in our new book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust , distrust is not the opposite of trust. Since the very nature of work is being redefined, it’s also redefining the nature of leadership. The digital age has rendered command-and-control leadership obsolete.

Servant Leader 134

Servant Leader Blanchard Bond Human Resources 134

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2015

Here’s a question that has been touted by human resources consultants and practitioners for the better part of two decades as an important way to measure employee engagement: “Do you have a best friend at work?” No amount of organizational orchestration can foster those more personal bonds.

Teamwork 8

Teamwork Bond Human Resources Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Incentives or other extrinsic rewards—individual bonus schemes, promises of nice offices and titles, and other tangible benefits— create transactional relationships , not deep bonds to an employer. He or she must believe in and articulate a “higher ambition,” as we call it at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership.

Company 8

Company Teamwork Commitment Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The SEALs leadership recognized that technical excellence—better shooting and better shots—didn’t go nearly far enough in addressing the complex environments and demands that would be made upon sniper teams in wartime deployments in multiple theaters. This was a precarious time. Webb unambiguously champions both.

Training 8

Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

Given that the tasks facing organizations and teams require flexibility, a cave-and-commons approach to organizational design helps ensure that people can work individually, away from potential distractions, but also can nimbly pull themselves together for teamwork. when team members need to give and receive feedback.

Power 8

Power Bond Charisma Creativity 8