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August 2009

I Love Being Human! How about you?

Isn’t it great to be human! I love the positive about human nature. For the most part we are all loving and kind beings. I love this video clip I saw the other day, perhaps you have seen it since it has had well over one million views on YouTube. But this was my first time. “The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” ~Margaret Carty

Team Goals and Field Goals

An amazing thing has been happening with my 12 year old son lately. He is kicking the guts out of footballs with great accuracy, and I don’t even have to push him! Let me give you a little bit of background.

Entertaining Teamwork Video

I love this teamwork video I just saw on YouTube. It’s amazing what a video can do to demonstrate a concept. This is entertaining. Let me know what you think.

I personally believe that lack of understanding team members should probably be number one if not a close second in the rankings. With lack of understanding comes lack of trust. When there is a lack of trust on the team there will be focus on anything but the issues during team conflict, which will create all kinds of inefficiencies on the team. What do you think? What have you done on your teams to increase understanding among team members?

Why do leaders become old school?

I recently read an article in the Harvard Business Blog on four star general and former US top commander in Afghanistan David D. McKiernan. He was recently replaced and forced out (fired) by a new commander, General Stanley McChrystal. Basically the article states that General McKiernan was “old school” (though he was generally recognized for having done an outstanding job) and not up to speed as his predecessor in diplomatic skills, press savviness, international politics and so forth. The question I have to ask is how General McKiernan became “old school?”