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 Happy Monday!
I spent last week with US Cellular and with Alberta EnviroFuels. It is my first experience with US Cellular (I did a keynote) and AEF has been a client for more than ten years (I’m facilitating training designed especially for them).
Working with the very new and the very familiar so close together causes me to reflect on the excitement of meeting new people, learning about their business and sharing ideas with them; and also the great fun to renew friendships and be stretched to share my newest ideas and techniques with those long-time Clients.
I love my work.
I’m grateful to both organizations and I’m also grateful to have you join me each week here. Whether or not our relationship expands beyond this weekly email to our products and services, you provide me an opportunity share ideas and help develop them even further.
I stay on the "team theme" for one more week, in celebration of the release of my True Team Building Manifesto at ChangeThis.com. I hope you will check it out and download it from there.
Have a great week, enjoy this issue and let us know how we can help you.
Yours in Learning,
Five Questions to Ask Before Forming a Team
A project or challenge comes up and many people, without thinking, immediately form a team to research, solve the problem and implement the solution. Teams can be a very powerful way to solve problems and implement massive improvements. But teams aren’t the right answer to every situation.
To get the best possible results from the resources available, it is important that a leader answer a question they typically don’t ask - “Is a team the best way to address this situation?”
Unfortunately when they assume the answer to that first question they jump to “Who should I put on the team?” When they start there, they may have already doomed the organization to less than the perfect solution, before they even get started.
This article poses five questions designed to help you answer this important first question.
Click HERE to read the five key questions.
Nine Lives of Leadership
Provocative Advice for Great Leaders
Lisa Haneberg, an author and speaker who I have recommended here before. recently teamed up with the great people at 800CEORead to create this e-book which you can now get for f.r.e.e.
For this well written and beautifully designed e-book Lisa interviewed nine authors of prominent books written in the past year or so. (This list includes two books that I have recommended in this newsletter and one that I will recommend in the near future.) In each of the nine chapters Lisa shares what she learned in the interviews, but expands it to include her observations as well.
These chapters can serve as an introduction to these authors, their books and main ideas, as a review if you have read the books, or as a teaser to send you to your nearest bookstore. I read this 83 page e-book in one sitting and it did all three of these things for me!
If you aren’t an e-book reader, this is the book to change your mind. I gained more ideas and thoughts from this than I have from many full books – with the added benefit of making me conversant on some books I haven’t yet read.
The authors Lisa interviewed include:
- Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone - Read my review from Issue 2.20
- Peter Han, Nobodies to Somebodies: How 100 Great Careers Got Their Start
- Laurence Haughton, It’s Not What You Say, It’s What You Do
- Sally Hogshead, Radical Careering
- Jason Jennings, Think Big, Act Small
- Luda Kopeikina, The Right Decision Every Time
- Gary Neilson, Results : Keep What's Good, Fix What's Wrong, and Unlock Great Performance
- Tim Sanders, The Likeability Factor - Read my review from Issue 2.40
- Eileen Shapiro, Make Your Own Luck
Get your copy of Nine Lives of Leadership HERE!
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