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Midnight Lunch – The 4 Phases of Team Collaboration Success from Thomas Edison’s Lab

By Sarah Miller Caldicott The premise is cool: learning about collaborative teams from the great grand-niece of Thomas Edison. I bought the book based on that premise and a recommendation. What I found was a book that has lots of insights about Edison and his working style, approach and beliefs. Since I have read quite

Doing the Most Important Things

I grew up on a farm. We raised a variety of crops, had a fertilizer and seed business, and we raised hogs. For most of my growing up, our hog operation was pretty small, and feeding was done somewhat automatically. Feed was prepared every few days, and loaded into feeders which was gravity fed to

The Leader’s Attitude Choice

I travel enough to have lots of travel and airline stories. Overall, I have as many positive ones as negative ones. In fact, I am typically very productive on airplanes, even when the seating space is tight. Today, however, I want to talk about one of “those” travel days. My day was supposed to be relatively

The Gift of Accountability

There are just three more days in the 12 (Leadership) Days of Christmas. If you have been following along, don’t stop now! And if you have just found this thread of tasks/gifts, you can get the background, purpose and full recap here. I grew up on a farm, and while we rarely had chickens (or

The Gift of Questions

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me . . . Four calling birds? I don’t want to give or receive any birds, but the gift I’m writing about today? That’s definitely a gift worth giving. If you don’t know how a Twelve Days of Christmas reference makes it onto a

The Gift of (Other) Focus

I’m not a swan expert, but if I watch them, I don’t see them worrying about other swans (unless a mother with her young). I mean, look at this picture – the swans are “a swimming” on their own – focused on their surroundings and their needs. Given that observation, they aren’t a good model for our

The Gift of Feedback

As we count down to Christmas, I am creating 12 daily leadership tasks, designed to be completed in 12 minutes or less that I am calling the 12 (Leadership) Days of Christmas. You can see the premise and links to the others in the list here. The best part about these tasks is that in

The Gift of Relationships

On 12/12/12 I outlined a process I call The 12 (Leadership) Days of Christmas. If you have been following along you know that. If not, check out the beginning (with links to the other days) to understand what we are doing and why. In the song there are ten lords a leaping. As a leader

The Gift of Your Ear . . . and Your Heart

On 12/12/12, I outlined a process for a Leadership 12 Days of Christmas process, where each day I would give you a small task that, when completed, would bring gifts to both you and your team. While I don’t know the value of 11 pipers piping, I believe the value of the gift you will

Remembering Why You Hired People

Why do you hire new employees? Ok, this seems like an obvious question, and no, it isn’t a trick. We hire people because we have assignments that need to be completed, sales to be made, products to be created, manufactured, shipped, and billed. We hire people to be productive; to get work done. Yet, that’s

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