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4 months ago

Book summary: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

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18February

There are five fundamental causes of team dysfunction: absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results. These dysfunctions can lead to team failure. The way to address these dysfunctions is through building trust among team members, encouraging open and honest communication, fostering commitment to shared goals, establishing clear...

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Monday, 22 June 2020

The importance of values

By Sean Craig
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Monday, 22 June 2020
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22June

As we’ve discussed in similar articles on both mission and vision statements, organisational values are an often used concept, but rarely well executed. Many organisations have developed a set of values, but very few have applied them in a way that truly and uniquely defines the way they work in practice. If you look up the values of any organisation, you will usually see a list of concepts...

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Tuesday, 9 June 2020

Book summary: The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni

By Sean Craig
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Tuesday, 9 June 2020
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09June

The strongest organisations are those that are healthy, not just smart. Organisational health depends on four disciplines: developing a cohesive leadership team, creating strategic clarity, over-communicating that clarity throughout the organisation, and reinforcing strategy through systems and ways of working. Clarity doesn't need to be complex and abstract, instead it can be achieved by...

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Monday, 30 March 2020

The six questions that every high performing organisation needs to answer

By Sean Craig
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Monday, 30 March 2020
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30March

I hear and read about a lot of organisations and teams that wish to be ‘high performing’.  This is a great goal, but identifying this ambition is the easy bit.  The hard bit is working out how to translate the relatively abstract concept of high performance into concrete strategies for achieving it.  There may be lots of organisations talking about it, but there are relatively few...

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