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Why do smart people defend stupid ideas? organizational psychologists found that increased engagement with an idea impacts how open to changing that idea we are. But there is a twist

Reading news on politics these days made me review an blog post on how to best respond to a lack of collaboration which I wrote five years ago. A fundamental question that I hear sometimes during [...]

For the past week, Marissa Mayer’s decision to corral the Yahoos has been captivating media outlets and HR professionals. Competitors and work practice experts have been heavily criticizing [...]

Today’s business and social goals can’t be accomplished by any one of us alone. Our success depends on each other. While that’s probably no news to you, it’s worthwhile to remind [...]

We have been using the Harvard Business Review classic “Can you say what your strategy is?” lately when facilitating strategy retreats with leadership teams. The article’s authors challenge [...]

Imagine you are in a room with loud music. Next to you is a friend who hardly hears what you have to say. You have two choices: Yell louder – or turn down the music. What will you do? Many times, [...]

A few months ago I wrote about some interesting findings from MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence. Looking into what supports group intelligence, the researchers found that individual [...]

What supports teams to make good decisions – and to make them efficiently? What kind of leadership is required to support the quality of collective decision-making? And will that quality be [...]

What makes team members team players? Collaborative Coaching and Resonance Strategies combine their experience in organizational/team effectiveness and in employee research to explore this [...]

Say – in your particular work context – you need to work with people who bring the spirit of collaboration to your project. Good news. Reasons to collaborate are manifold – and you may find [...]

What makes work more meaningful? “Help your co-workers and staff see progress.” In their research on ways to increase team productivity, Teresa Ambile and Steven Cramer found that small wins [...]

With all the hopes and promises of open innovation, team-based creativity, and peer-driven collaboration, effective ways to increase collective intelligence are hotly debated. One repeatedly [...]

Imagine, when interacting with our team members, we had the luxury of systematically trying different cooperation strategies to find out what works best in the long run. Is it treating others the [...]

As recently reported by the New York Times, Google unleashed its analytical power in-house as a part of Google’s management effectiveness project. Applying its data mining genius, Google dug [...]

When does a boss go from being difficult to being dysfunctional? And what can you do if the dysfunctional boss is your boss? My coaching work with Suzanne (not her real name) began in an effort [...]