Unless you’ve been living under a rock you will have already heard some sort of reference to ‘Second Life‘. The site that allows you to create an avatar, or Second Life. This one is virtual and doesn’t , of course, come with the same restrictions your present physical life has. A good thing in some [...]

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I had forgotten about this neat little service site - a place to store 43 things you’d like to do with your life. What are 43 Things you’d like to do with yours?
One of the coolest things about this site is that when you sign up and put something into the site - it will [...]

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From “The Gregarious Brain” by David Dobbs
…For 40 years or so, primatologists like Jane Goddall, Frans DeWaal, and Robert Sapolsky have been studying social behaviours in chimps, gorillas, macques, bonobos, and baboons. Over the past decade, that work has led to a unifying theory that explains not only a huge range of bahaviour but also [...]

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The traditional ‘org chart’ that we used to be able to take for granted - would list who was at the ‘top’ and who was next and so on. As things have flattened out in various organizations and business the pure hierarchy does not always pan out. As networks become more important business organizations realize [...]

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The shifting generations within the work place, are having a profound effect upon business and how teams operate. As gen Y begins to infuse the workforce they bring with them values and perspectives that differ significantly from the Baby Boomers who are beginning to leave the workplace in droves. Adaptive and forward-thinking businesses are finding [...]

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In my last blog I said that ‘high CQ teams’ are boring - and compared to the circus that accompanies ‘low CQ teams’ I suppose they are. You know the kind (count your blessings if you are not actually having to work in one) - every major project turns into an epic struggle of sanity [...]

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It could be said that teams with high CQ are quite boring. There are very few dramas and no exciting heroes the team relies on to save the day. People pull their weight and support each other to an extraordinary degree. There is a vigorous pursuit for learning, not only at the [...]

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When you attach a great deal of meaning to something, like the outcome of a football game or your child’s first word, you get excited and absorbed in the event. The same is true of your work. When you have a strong sense of meaning attached to what you are doing, you bring [...]

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