As Ryan Holiday wrote in his book “The Obstacle Is the Way,” obstacles can be seen as opportunities to improve and grow. In the context of building a great team, there are certainly obstacles to overcome, but they can be viewed as chances to strengthen the team and its processes. It all Starts with PEOPLE:   People are at the heart of any organization. They design and create products, make business decisions, and solve problems. No business can succeed without the efforts of its people. Therefore, building a great team is critical to the success of any organization.   First

The 4 Stages of Leverage:   Sometimes if feels like the whole world is against you. Organizations can experience different stages of leadership leverage, each with its own challenges and opportunities. It can be a hard climb, but you can do it!   Lets take a look at the 4 stages you will need to work through to get to the top of the leadership leverage mountain.     The Backwards Leverage Stage, characterized by when the balance of power between the leadership and staff becomes unbalanced and the leadership loses its grip on having meaningful influence on the culture

Ten Ways Ineffective Leaders Attract Ineffective Team Members   A team’s success and output are directly related to the quality of its leadership. However, ineffective leaders attract ineffective team members when they display negative attributes or engage in damaging actions. Most Ineffective leaders aren’t ineffective on purpose, they just have not yet purposely taken the steps to learn how to be more effective.     Learn the top ten characteristics shared by ineffective leaders that make their teams so unproductive. Leaders can learn from these trends to improve their own performance and foster an environment where talented people want to

  Friend or Foe:   “Friend or Foe” was a suspenseful TV game show that captivated audiences in the 1990s. The show pitted contestants against each other in a high-stakes game of trust and strategy. The primary objective of the game was to accumulate as much prize money as possible, but the catch was that contestants had to decide whether to cooperate with their partner or betray them.   The game consisted of multiple rounds, and in each round, pairs of contestants were randomly matched. They had the opportunity to communicate and form alliances during a brief pre-round discussion, after