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Leadership Teamwork

How to lead now? With Courage and Care

A quick search this morning reveals that in the past few weeks I have received nearly 300 emails about “leading in the time of Covid-19.” That number does not include articles in my newsfeed or posts on social media. My guess is that you don’t need another five bullet points on how to lead in […]

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Leadership Teamwork

Leading In The Moment

Yesterday our Digital Strategies team met for our monthly Strategy Day. Strategy days allow us to devote longer sessions of up to two to three hours on a single issue or cluster of problems. We seek to dive deep and pray for wisdom to make one or two decisive calls that ensure we stay on […]

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Productivity Teamwork

My Team Just Died

Groupthink can be a killer. At a conference I’m attending we had a group synergy exercise. The facilitator broke us into groups of 6-10 people, then read us this scenario: You are the only survivors of a plane crash. It’s January and you are somewhere in the Canadian Rockies. Daytime temps are 25 below zero; […]