Four Kinds of Trust (2): Earn Trust from Your People
In management and leadership literature one of the topics most often referred to is trust. Trust between two people operates in two direc...
Four Kinds of Trust (1): Trust Your People
In management and leadership literature one of the topics most often referred to is trust. Trust between two people operates in two direc...
6 Simple Questions for Alan Shalloway
About one year ago I published a series of interviews called "5 Easy Questions". The answers to those questions came from Steve...
If You Want Something Done, Practice Your Patience
In the science fiction movie The Fifth Element, the character Zorg is a devious and ruthless industrialist ruler, who is time and time ag...
The Delegation Checklist
In their book Behind Closed Doors Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby published a handy checklist that you can use for delegation of tasks. ...
Choosing Authority Levels for Team Members
Empowerment is often incorrectly perceived as a binary choice. Either you empower someone, or you don’t. In reality, your options are m...
Reduce Your Fear, Increase Your Status
Some managers don’t like the idea of empowering people. They fear a loss of authority, power, and control. They also fear competition w...
I Need Your Help!
The nice thing about being a blogger is that you don’t need to feel embarrassed when asking for a favor. Chris Brogan did it. Scott Ber...
Emergence in Development Teams
When trying to translate the concept of emergence to teams, we can recognize a host of interesting phenomena. The first is the possibilit...
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