Use Spirited Economics to Create the Next Wave of Economic Progress

In a recent keynote Harvard Business blog post Mr Jeff Immelt used a great phrase. He said that ‘the world has been reset.’ The way I see it, one of the critical problems about this is that the behavior and communication skills of corporate leaders have not been reset to be aligned to […]

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Building Business Teams Part 4

In the first three articles of this series of seven, I put forward a proposition that there are two types of business teams.  Teams that have spirit and teams that don’t.  Business teams with spirit are winners.  Teams without spirit are losers.   The previous three articles each addressed one of the seven characteristics of winning […]

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Leadership Trait to Avoid: Letting Your Ego Conduct the Meeting

Ego Taking Control

So there I am in a meeting room with George and five members of his team.  George had invited me to sit in on a meeting and evaluate what was happening.  He said that the team was stuck; that they were completely unable to pull in the same direction.  As their […]

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Building Spirited Business Teams Part 3 – Demonstrating Courage

Demonstrate Courage in Words and Action.

In the first two articles of this series of seven, I put forward a proposition that there are two types of business teams.  Teams with spirit and teams without spirit.  Business teams with spirit are winners.  Teams without spirit are losers. The previous two articles each addressed one of the […]

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The Economics of Corporate Culture

What is Corporate Culture?

What is this thing we call ‘culture?’ My favorite definition of culture is, ‘a way of life’. This is true for organizations, families, friendships, marriages, colleges and countries.  In fact, wherever there is a group, be it small or large, there is a culture… a way of life, or ‘the […]

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