Recently, I came across a very interesting blog called Stronger Teams Blog – an excellent resource for articles related to team building and improvement. Here are some of the posts that I loved reading on Stronger Teams Blog. Diagnosing teams to improve performanceA beautiful analogy between team values and human body and examination of team in […]
Loved reading the bottomline of a nice post “The Power of Passion” at “Be Excellent” blog. “Life is too short to spend eight hours a day doing something you don’t care about. It really doesn’t matter where you are in life. The only person holding you back from laying out your plans is you.” Excellence […]
Robin Sharma inspires like no one else does – and he does it again with his excellent post “Your Team’s Only As Good As You“. A team can only be as great as a leader is – and as I have said before, a lousy leader mostly manages a lousy team. Robin says – “The big idea: your team will never […]
Via Raven Young’s blog: Once a project is in motion, there are many things that can slow it down. Here are some common project clogs to watch for: “Feature creep” (This is the most common roadblock!) Project agreement changes Poor team dynamics Multi-tasking Over-scheduling people’s time (for example, setting up a schedule where team members are […]
Success at workplace largely depends on our ability to stand up for ourselves and clearly express our feelings and thoughts. Equally important is the fact that these ideas/feelings/thoughts have to be presented in the right manner. While some people at workplace are insistent and try to “enforce” their views, some are passive and mostly submissive to other’s […]
This week, I read two beautiful posts on happiness and success. The first one on happiness comes from Astha Parmar through her post called “Redefining Happy”. Happiness is a very relative term – and definition of happiness is different for each individual. Don’t we see people with meager resources living like kings and other wealthy ones […]
Via Skip Reardon’s “Be Excellent” blog. “The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.” (General H. Norman Schwarzkopf) A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.” (General George S. Patton) Thanks Skip, for sharing these!
Lisa Haneberg in her post “What is success and how can you get some more?” puts an extract from her book “High Impact Middle Management” where she lists beliefs Middle Managers should subscribe to. Thanks Lisa for sharing these beliefs. Out of all listed, I particularly liked the following ones. “Middle managers should be outstanding […]