This infographic by Brown & Company outlines the genetic structure of high-performance teams and the four phases they use to bring a product to market: Ready, Aim, Fire, Adjust. Such workgroups can't be hampered by bureaucracy; they must have "room to run, to experiment and even fail,...
Most managers and entrepreneurs tend to shy away from failure, but as these must-reads on leadership failures prove, there's more to learn from misses than makes. * The late Joe Paterno left behind an incredible history of winning and great leadership at Penn State. In this post, Dan Rockwell...
Nearly 1 in 5 workers telecommute regularly, and about 10 percent work from home on a daily basis, according to an Ipsos/Reuters poll of 11,383 employed individuals in 24 countries. The exact figures vary from region to region: over half of respondents in India have a home-based job,...
I just received my ToutApp 2011 Year in Review report, and since I wrote about the email-analyzing service earlier this year, I thought I'd follow up with my results. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the email patterns ToutApp surfaced meshed so well with the productivity and...
If you're familiar with the Ridiculously Efficient Track, Hack and Attack productivity strategy, you're probably aware of your "power hours," or the times of your day in which you're firing on all cylinders. To be productive at work, you must protect these...
Collaborative leadership enables productivity organically; accordingly, today's must-reads focus on the various qualities such change agents have. How does your workplace incentivize collaboration? * The seven roles of collaborative leaders, including coach, facilitator, healer and sponsor. [Eric Jacobson] * The best boss ever is a talent magnet that top employees...
