Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 19, 2021

That reminds me of the “Responsibility Poem” by American journalist Charles Osgood. Be a team player rather than expecting others to shoulder the burden. The fact is, most people won’t respond to a cry for help, if others are present , because they’ll expect someone else to act. His poem illustrates this point very clearly.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

We know that getting more women on teams can boost performance. The examples are numerous: Citing private internal research of 20,000 client teams, EY’s vice chair Beth Brooke has said that the more diverse teams had higher profitability and great client satisfaction than non-diverse teams.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

In fact, it’s from Stevenson’s list of pressures that pull managers away from entrepreneurship and towards administration. In Boston, I worked with many amazing public managers and a handful of outstanding public entrepreneurs. Of course, that’s not all bad. We must have more great public administrators.

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