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Successful Leaders Help Team Members Find Their Motivation

Want your teamwork to be as successful as possible? Want to be an effective team leader? Then create relationships and be a powerful motivator by helping others realize what they gain from working on a project with you — help them discover their own motivation to do great work.
The more helpful you are to other [...]

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Shared Clarity is the Source of Power for Successful Teamwork

New businesses should started with a business plan — the same goes for teamwork: articulating the common outcome so every team member is working toward the same goal is crucial before the work starts. To move forward together, you need to establish shared clarity.
Lack of shared clarity about direction is often the cause of the [...]

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Applying TeamWisdom: Taking Personal Responsibility Helps the Whole Team

Are you unhappy or frustrated at work?
Have you thought this about your team:

“I can’t be responsible for the quality of my team’s efforts.”
“Getting on a good team is mostly a matter of luck.”
“If I’m part of a poorly functioning team, and I’m not in charge, there is little I can do but bear it.”

These kinds [...]

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Responsible Leadership: Boards Micro-Manage in Crisis?

Steven Tanner, Editor, California Executive quoted me in an article yesterday. Titled
“Now More Than Ever, Company Boards Must Respect Boundaries”
the article suggests there is a marked increase in Boards making tactical decisions for companies during economic crises. My suggestion, not all quoted in the article of course were as follows:

Effective Boards, Board Chairs, and CEO’s [...]

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Responsible Leadership Questions & Answers

I appreciate you. And I appreciate your interest in how personal and shared responsibility works in the mind. People like you joined me today for a solid hour of my best information about leading, teaming, and succeeding through 100% ownership. It’s live, no-cost, and completely driven by your questions. You were there right? Or [...]

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