The most productive and valuable piece of the weekly meeting is Collective Intelligence. Collective Intelligence is a benchmark in every weekly meeting to solve bottlenecks using the collective genius of the team. CI is perhaps the greatest value of the weekly meeting rhythm.
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Topics: weekly meetings, collective intelligence, People
In our last blog Amazon’s Culture Flaws? we shared the NY Times article Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace. Remarks from employees suggest increased pressure in Amazon’s environment to perform.
Read MoreTopics: employee engagement, employee performance, People, leadership, A Players, Leadership Team
Is it possible to balance high performance in the workplace with a culture that provides personal liberty, freedom and work-life balance?
Read MoreTopics: employee engagement, employee performance, People, metrics, measurement, How the Mighty Fall,
Fix What Bugs You – A Priority Requires Doing the Right Things Right
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 24, 2015
Combining ideas from the Growth Summit, celebrating a winning theme and initiating a new one can be a great way to experience growth in your business.
Read MoreAddition by Subtraction – Great Game of Business Story
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 20, 2015
A Culture of Accountability is the outcome of getting People Decision right in your organization.
Read MoreTopics: employee engagement, employee performance, People, People Decisions, Great Game of Business
Topics: A Players, Leadership DNA, Leadership Team
Winning is Achieving Clear Priorities and Communication
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 13, 2015
A 14 hour travel day can get pretty boring even if you sprinkle in the occasional joke, predictable encounter with rude motorist, and share it with family members. This past week I traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to scratch off an item from my bucket list: Gettysburg Battlefield. On the way there I unleashed a practice on my two sons I’d learned in Dale Carnegie training many years back. It is absolutely guaranteed to raise the self-esteem of the people who participate.
Read MoreTopics: Employee Recognition, People, People/Relationship Drivers, human behavior, human behavior performance, superior human relations
How Trust Is Broken and Egos Are Triggered – Smart Tribes
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 6, 2015
As noted in previous blogs SmartTribes – How to Deliver Accountability and Consequences That Work - More SmartTribes we’re exploring Christine Comaford’s Smart Tribes for ideas to help you grow your business. If you’ve not picked it up I highly recommend it.
Read MoreIn our previous blog SmartTribes – How to Deliver Accountability we offered how Christine Comaford gets accountability in the DNA of developing SmartTribes by building “containers.” Containers are the structures that enable a group of people to achieve real accountability across the board, pulling together like a synchronized rowing team. She offers four key practices that will help you do that:
Read MoreTopics: Accountability, People, Business Development Tool, Smart Tribes

                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    




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