RECOMMENDATION Kimball Fisher provides a revised, updated look at the techniques for successfully leading self-directed work teams (SDWTs). He draws on basic principles described in his earlier book of the same name. SDWTs are effective and...
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RECOMMENDATION Work from the beach, the mountains or your house. Work your own hours, as long as you get the job done. Until the Industrial Revolution, doing your job from home was a worker’s only option. Now, remote work may well dominate the...
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RECOMMENDATION Management consultant Robert Bruce Shaw examines successful teams at seven “cutting-edge” companies – Airbnb, Alibaba, Netflix, Patagonia, Pixar, Whole Foods and Zappos – and identifies behaviors and mind-sets that set them apart...
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RECOMMENDATION Organizations must adapt to change. How you adjust to employee turnover and company growth and contraction will affect your company’s viability. Corporate coach Heidi Helfand explores the challenges of how work teams change. Almost...
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RECOMMENDATION Business leaders need to make collaboration part of the fabric of their organizations rather than an occasional occurrence. For that to happen, they must make sure their employees feel passionate about working together. People need...
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