Archive for the "Ask Christopher Avery" category

Go ahead, ask me anything

The next Ask Christopher Avery FREE Live Teleseminar is less than a week away. Ask Christopher Avery is next Tuesday, June 10 at 1PM Eastern, Noon Central, 11AM Mountain, and 10AM Pacific.
Ask Christopher Avery is the monthly forum (every second Tuesday) where you interview me by asking your burning questions in advance and I answer […]

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Where Liability is Involved Deny! (Not)

(Published in Christopher Avery’s Responsibility eTips)
Where liability is involved Deny! has been the professional advice for eons. Even when great surgeons (for example) made an obvious blunder, they were pressured for liability reasons to deny it: “I’m sorry Mrs. Smith, I have no idea how you could have ended up with three surgical sponges where […]

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What’s Your Personal Agility Quotient?

(Published in Responsibility eTips, January 25, 2008. Subscribe)
My comments on "personal agility" published in recent days by Agile University and the Cutter Consortium have people begging for more (so they can make up their mind about attending Knowledge Team Leadership of course!), so let's speculate about what comprises your Personal Agility Quotient . . .
Here […]

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Christmas Greetings and more!

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What is Team Building Anyway?

The Chief Happiness Officer writes about The top 5 reasons why most team building events are a waste of time. He says they are overly competitive, often demeaning, and don't so much build team as build aggression (my word).
No kidding.
Here's a few related views based on my experience studying team development—so I could teach it […]

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