Introduction: When we get under pressure and feel stressed out, we revert to our shadow mission (the default setting). What’s the leader’s greatest fear? The job is relentless, there are many challenges. Possibilities: the fear of failure (it’s very public), the fear of mutiny (when teams fracture), the […]
Opening: leadership is action-oriented. Most of all, leaders have to solve problems. In this session, we are going to focus on some of the “Powell Principles”. “Leadership should promote a clash of ideas”. What’s the point of having people working for you who can’t contribute their expertise. The […]
The session began with an interview about Carly’s firing as the CEO at HP. And then it shifted to an interview between Bill Hybels and Carly. Bill recommends Carly’s Tough Choices, and suggests that “everyone” needs to read it. He commented that he doesn’t usually say that. The […]
The Global Leadership Summit this year has been held in about 200 locations, with 100,000 people in attendence Margaret Spicer, Willow Creek NZ This event has been under development and planning for a year. There are events being run in 11 countries today, as well as in the […]
I’m in Christchurch for a two day leadership summit, put on by Willow Creek New Zealand. They have a range of high powered speakers lined up for the next two days, including Marcus Buckingham, Carly Fiorina, Colin Powell and Michael Porter. The agenda looks great! I’m in the […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Factors Affecting KM … Shawn lists 7 key factors that affect knowledge management in organizations: (1) executive support, (2) technology, (3) organization and people, (4) routines, rituals and recognition, (5) information management, (6) external drivers, and (7) the spatial […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Introducing Collaboration Tech … Penny outlines three ways in which collaboration technologies can be introduced into organizations: (1) focus on business needs first and then identify technologies that can help, (2) matching promising innovations with relevant problems, and (3) […]
Thanks to a collaboration between Eric and Kent, I am the delighted owner of an iPod Touch. It is a really cool device, and a great improvement over the previous iPod I had. The browser experience is particularly neat. Now I’m looking for a case for it. The […]
As an industry analyst on collaboration, and as an advisor to organizations on effective collaboration strategies, I have a long running observation of Microsoft and its collaboration tools and strategy. SharePoint, in particular, once it became clear that Microsoft Exchange Server was not going to be the whole […]
Welcome to the Seamless Teamwork book blog. Seamless Teamwork is the main title of the book (and it was Juliana’s excellent titling idea … I had proposed “Beyond Me” … which I still like, but Seamless Teamwork is even better). The book is due for publication in September […]
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