I was standing on my rooftop patio, overlooking the sprawling city of Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Mañana Syndrome kills an organization because it erodes momentum and forward progress.
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Brian Chesky, Founder of AirBnB, said "You will never innovate in your industry by looking only within your industry.”
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Where is your organization in the lifecycle?
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He said, “It’s something we had never tried before. We didn’t have high hopes for it. It was an...
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Each time you make a decision, you have a golden opportunity. And most teams miss it.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.
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Imagine that you're hiring for a key position in your company. You're down to three candidates. How do you decide which one gets the offer?
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If you’ve ever played golf, you know that often times you do the opposite of what you would naturally think you should do. So in life, it seems.
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Several years ago, I was consulting with a 60-year-old company that was on the verge of shutting down. They had once dominated the market but, as the world changed around them, they hadn’t changed to meet it.
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Let's forget this business about "Work-Life Balance." You don't want that.
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I should have expected it. After I posted "What Teams Can Learn from Breaking Bad(Part 1)," I started to get comments like this: "If that's a team, I don't want to be in it."
I get it.
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Walt & Jesse, at their best, are one of the all-time great teams, a force to be reckoned with, and a delight to watch. At their worst, they're a Most Wanted poster for the worst team of all time.
I shared five lessons we can learn from them in my last post. Here are five more that didn't happen as often in Breaking Bad, but were beautiful when they did.
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It's been called the highest rated television show in the history of television. Its final season just cleaned up at the Emmy Awards.
But what can teams learn from Breaking Bad? Well, so much actually, that it's impossible to contain in a single post. Here's Part 1.
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Guardians of the Galaxy took most of the world by surprise, racking up a record-setting box office for August and soaring toward the top of imdb's list of the Top 250 movies ever.
Now that it's part of the cultural landscape of our times, let's see what teams can learn from the Guardians.
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Every company has a team of values that it follows around with a puppy-like eagerness. Many of those values have grown and shown up any official planning. And some of those values need to die.
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Every person and every organization has a unique identity inherent within them. Some of the most important work that any person or organization can do is discovering that uniqueness, and then harnessing it to become a better version of themselves.
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