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Alaska, Bad Weather and Building an Oil Pipeline

Great Results Team Building

After the 1973 American oil crisis, and a few legal battles with environmentalists, oil companies started planning the pipeline’s construction. About 6,000 of the workers during the pipeline’s construction were Alaskan natives. Bill Parcells is famous for sharing a similar message with his football teams. What is YOUR pipeline?

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Why You Should Question Your Culture

Harvard Business Review

By making these differences concrete and conscious, they were able to have a constructive dialogue that led to ground rules for decision-making. To what extent do we share information broadly or parcel it out narrowly? For example: To what extent do we reward individual vs. team results?

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

” Many organizations construct short-term projects by simply carving off the first few months of a multi-year implementation plan, and then the next few, and so on. Leadership also wanted to improve service delivered to property taxpayers and municipalities. The severances team increased parcels processed per day by 175%.