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What’s Getting In the Way — And What to Do About It Why is it so difficult to turn good teams into great teams? The need for high group intelligence and collaboration is compelling [...]

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, [...]

Welcome to thinking against the grain: Both the New York Times (The Rise of the New Group Think) and the New Yorker Magazine (Group Think: Brainstoming Doesn’t Really Work) presented within [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In my work with teams I often hear the same complaint: “we aren’t strategic enough.” I have heard this from Fortune 500 leaders as much as from not-for-profit board members.  I have heard this [...]

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 [...]