Ron Edmondson

MARCH 13, 2023

How do we get projects completed successfully in a team environment? From a poem by Charles Osgood) Do you have a great team that can brainstorm great ideas, but no progress is made completing them? So, how can we be sure that projects get completed working in a team environment? Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.

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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

Chris Osgood and Nigel Jacob brought the country’s first major-city mobile 311 app to life, and they are public entrepreneurs. The Mayor’s team in Boston that started-up the One Fund in the days after the Marathon bombings were public entrepreneurs.

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