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- Four Great Teams in Business History
- Great minds, support from management, and their own brand of secret sauce helped these teams come up with some of the biggest innovations in recent business history. The Java Development Team at Sun Microsystems ...
- Articles 2008-01-25
- Key Team Personality Types
- Like characters in a role-playing game, each member of a team has different strengths and performs a different role in getting tasks accomplished. The Agitator...
- Articles 2008-01-25
- Build a Dream Team
- Bringing the right minds together for a crucial task can often be as daunting as the job itself. Here’s how to draft and manage your team towards success.Have a new product to get to prototype in six months? Need to crash through a systems rebuild? Whether it’s R&D, accounting, or...
- Articles 2008-01-25
- Larger Teams, Fewer Managers Not For Everyone
- It really grabs your attention, in these lean times, when someone tells you that your company can actually "do more with fewer managers." Boards and upper management may be enticed by the potential cost savings, but this is definitely not an idea for every, or even most, corporate teams, especially...
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Telecommuting Really is Productive, Says NSF
- Many managers think of telecommuting as a necessary evil for certain freelancers. But a case study conducted by The National Science Foundation and Telework Exchange free registration required suggests that having team members spend at least one day a month telecommuting could be a boon to your team's productivity. ...
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Michael Lee Stallard: A Manifesto on Team Unity
- As a team leader, one of your toughest challenges is to rally your team around a common goal, to stoke excitement and pride in their work. Everyone agrees this is a key to productivity and satisfaction, but how to grasp that grail is a discussion often mired in aspiration and...
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Monitor Real Estate Can Be Key to Getting More Done
- Can your IT department order productivity and have it arrive a week later in a box? A study by the University of Utah, commissioned by display maker NEC, says yes. Upping your team's task productivity by as much as 52 percent, they say, is as easy as investing in larger...
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Facebook Ultimatums Push Your Team's Goals Past The Tipping Point
- Group-action site The Point has just announced that they've launched an application called Ultimatums on Facebook that allows groups to create an action that's contingent upon gaining a certain level of consensus among the group. When the level of consensus is reached, the action is set in motion. ...
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- The Best Bets to Build Out Your Intranet
- JupiterMedia's Intranet Journal just announced its readers' choices for product of the year in five categories surrounding intra-company communication and workflow. Google prevailed in two categories, being chosen as both the year's best Semantic Tool and the best Enterprise Search Tool. Blogger beat out...
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- Quantum Hoops: How Failure Inspires More Than Success
- Not every project timeline follows the traditional Hollywood story arc. Teams don't always pull together just as the project seems to be falling apart, and the manager doesn't always figure out how to get through to his team just in time to lead them to success. That's why movies like...
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- How to Build and Manage Great Teams
- Effective team managers understand what type of group model best suits the task, what key skills to look for in team members and which to strictly avoid and how to coax top performances from everyone starting from day one. ...
- Articles 2008-01-25
- How to Lead By Staying Out of the Way
- Leadership is often portrayed as a glorious and heroic pursuit, where the manager is a font of knowledge and runs the team with the deft touch of a quarterback running the two-minute drill. But the truth is often much less sexy and more humble than that. In a recent article,...
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Google Boss Schmidt Takes Reins of Digital Brain Trust
- In the past few years, prominent Googlers have taken team building to a whole new level. First it was Messieurs Brin, Page and Kordestani's involvement in the X Prize Foundation, now Google CEO Eric Schmidt has taken over the chairmanship of the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think-tank that hopes...
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Societe Generale Debacle: Losing Touch Could Mean Losing It All
- More details have emerged in the stunning $7.2 billion trading loss suffered by French bank Societe Generale, incurred at the hands of a low-level trader run amok. As the Wall Street Journal reports, trader Jerome Kerviel had been making surreptitious and high risk moves for at least a year before...
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Can You Trust Your Boss's Boss?
- The disconnect between front-line workers and management is one of the oldest stories in the business world. It has fueled strikes, hampered productivity and soured work environments for as long as there have been org charts. But there is more to it than pay scale and the...
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Want a Raise? Beef Up Your Contact List.
- For ages, managers have been looking for just the right metric to measure the importance of each individual team member to the team's success. It might be closer than they thought -- if they just ask for a quick peek in their team's email address books. Three...
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Even Brainstorms Should Have a Forecast
- Brainstorming is often bandied about as the very apex of effective teamwork. However, in a recent survey conducted by BNET and Harris Interactive, only 45 percent of teams reported doing so on a frequent basis, though a full 92 percent do so at least occasionally. Results, as...
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Can a Singular Vision Survive Collaboration?
- Steve Hamm and Helen Walters at BusinessWeek craft a curious and thought-provoking piecethis week about the turn-of-the-century move toward collaboration in the field of product design, which they say has relegated the era of the design icon to the bygone bin. Like many Zeitgeist pieces, it...
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Too Little Team Conflict Can Lead to Disaster
- We remember sitting in a sixth-grade classroom on January 28, 1986, watching the catastrophic events of the clear, crisp morning near Cape Canaveral, Florida unfold on a large television screen. What many saw and remember as the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, barely on its way to the Earth's...
- Blog posts 2008-01-13
- Information Overload Is Nothing New
- How many people store a letter opener in the top drawer of their desk these days? O.K., we haven't done a survey, but we're pretty confident that the number would be relatively low. It used to be that you spent a significant chunk of time each day sliding that letter...
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
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