Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The process of re-engineering and streamlining, when coupled with increased demand for services, has led to a situation in which most leaders have more work to do and fewer staff members to help them do it. A parallel approach to team building has been shown to help leaders build teamwork without wasting time. ’?. Step Twelve.

Team Building 137

Team Building Team Teamwork Survey 137

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In true Brown fashion, we had an astrophysicist, a philosopher, two biomedical engineers, and an international development major (me). Our group formed simply by where we were sitting around the design table and spoke to the diverse array of backgrounds in the class. Our initial reaction was to go large scale.

Class 178

Class Project Long-term Engineering 178

RapidStart Leadership

MAY 4, 2017

I wear my hair up, and I wear no makeup to work but for tinted sunscreen, but if you get real close, my neck may smell of vanilla or lavender or lily of the valley, old fashioned, clean scents. She lives in Chicago with her engineer husband and rescue black lab. I also lead, as tough as one of them, but not trying to act like a man.

Leadership 121

Leadership Media Fashion Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When you find yourself thinking about old-fashioned, out-of-touch, hierarchical, siloed organizations, General Motors quickly comes to mind. Jump to last year and Barra again demonstrated her appreciation for teamwork by challenging 250 designers and engineers to a paper sailboat race.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

The earliest known attempt to investigate the relation between team size and productivity dates back about a hundred years to the now famous experiments by French engineer, Maximilien Ringelmann. Here's why. Purists will argue that this no longer constitutes a team but a working group, with one central figure to coordinate everyone's output.

Ingham 17

Ingham Team Brainstorming Fashion 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

On a separate track, he launched the device and content ecosystem, starting with iPod and iTunes, that would become the company’s new growth engine. In this way, Nadella was unlike his predecessors, in that he built his reputation as a hands-on engineer, not as a visionary like Bill Gates or a Type-A salesman like Steve Ballmer.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15