Do you feel like a winner today?                         Did your team hit its goals? Did you make progress? Rosabeth Moss Kanter studied teams that win and teams that lose. She found that winning teams have some advantages over losing teams. Winning teams: Have a better attitude. Enjoy hanging out with each other. Are more open to […]

A note in the locker room of the Miami Heat, a National Basketball Association team, says this: “When two teams meet that are equal in ability and execution, it’s the team that has pride that wins.” We use “pride” a great deal to describe someone who has an unsinkable character. These words add up to […]

“Ubuntu” is about promoting the greater good through compassion, humanity, and oneness within a team. “A Coach’s Rules for Life” was a Netflix docuseries released in 2020. The first episode featured Doc Rivers, a great NBA coach, describing the leadership rules he leads and coaches by. One of his rules was “Ubuntu.” I recognized it […]

I read a book this year called Give and Take by Adam Grant. He proposes an interesting model of organizational interaction. He says there are three types of people: takers, matchers, and givers. Takers approach things with a win/lose approach. In every interaction, they try to gain more in return than they contribute. Matchers have fairness as […]