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The Accountability Flywheel: The No-BS System for Building a Self-Policing Culture

May 22, 2025

Most founders and CEOs do not start companies dreaming of micromanaging grown adults. But when accountability breaks down, that is exactly what happens.

Teams that use a disciplined approach to team building win much more

Team Effectiveness

Team Building Is A Leadership System - Not a Retreat

May 15, 2025

Most companies treat team building like a box to check. A quarterly happy hour. A ropes course (remember those?). An annual offsite where everyone plays along. Then they return to ...

Leaders engaged in productive ideological conflict to get to the best ideas and outcomes

Team Effectiveness

Is Your Leadership Team Stuck in Agreement Mode?

Feb 4, 2025

The Fine Line Between Consensus and Productive Ideological Conflict The fine line between consensus and productive ideological conflict is a critical area for leaders to ...

Reduce friction and drama in your team through Behavioral Style and Driving Forces Awareness

Mindset Team Effectiveness

How to Mitigate Unnecessary Team Drama Using Psychometric Assessments

Sep 24, 2024

Show me a team that is unaware of one another's personality styles and I will show you a team with unnecessary friction and drama. There is a "personality storm" brewing in every ...

The key to scaling up is hiring only A Players - the top 20 percent who produce 80 percent of the results

Scaling Up Team Effectiveness

Scaling Up: Pareto Optimality and The Power of Building an A-Player Team

Sep 20, 2024

Those who command the best talent dominate the market. The war for talent is relentless, and the stakes could not be higher. You cannot afford to simply have a team of ...

Super heroes scaling-up their team and business through Extreme Accountability

Team Effectiveness

Why Extreme Accountability Must Be Your Team's Superpower

Sep 10, 2024

The Case For Extreme Accountability In the contemporary business landscape, where competition is fierce and market dynamics evolve rapidly, one principle stands out as a ...

Team Effectiveness

The High-Stakes Game of Team Dynamics: Why Understanding Working Styles is the Key to Unstoppable Success

Sep 7, 2024

Building an high-performing team requires a strategic, ongoing investment in understanding Working Styles - awareness of how people think, act, and collaborate. A high-performance ...

Bold leadership requires strategic teaming

Team Effectiveness

How Bold Leaders Forge Unstoppable Teams Through Strategic Teaming

Aug 29, 2024

Teaming: The Non-Negotiable Imperative for Founders and Leaders “Notfinance.Notstrategy.Nottechnology.Itisteamworkthatremainstheultimate ...

Team Effectiveness

Building Vulnerability-based Trust as a CEO: Crafting a Culture Code for High-Performing Teams

Aug 6, 2024

A High Trust Culture is Simply Not Enough. In today’s hyper-accelerating world of AI-driven innovation and enhanced decision-making, trust is no longer enough. You and your team ...

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