Entries from Kelake tagged with 'Teams'
McKnight Principles of Innovation
William L. McKnight's (3M chairman of the board from 1949 to 1966): “As our business grows, it becomes increasingly necessary to delegate responsibility and to encourage men and women to exercise their initiative. This requires considerable tolerance. Those men and...
Project Management Tips
"One thing that derails projects is the lack of a discrete beginning or end. Projects either meet with dissatisfaction from their sponsors, or they amble on past deadlines as scope creep locks you, the project manager, into a lengthy and...
Christmas Books on IA and Teams
I received a number of books for Christmas and I thought I would share a couple. I'm not one for book reviews but I'm sure some of the thoughts contained in these books will make it into later posts. I...
Mix it up.
To create creative groups of people don't rely exclusively on cohesion - bring in new people with new ideas and different ways of doing things. "We found that teams that achieved success -- by producing musicals on Broadway or publishing...
Help for Team Efforts
Good article on teams. "Vince Lombardi, the successful leader of football teams and of men in general, said this about teams: "Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society...
Where do These People Get Their (Unoriginal) Ideas
"We all know that knowledge workers work best by getting into "flow", also known as being "in the zone", where they are fully concentrated on their work and fully tuned out of their environment. They lose track of time...
Motivating the members of your team
"Figuring out how to motivate your staff and adapt your style for their particular 'career anchors' can turn all employees into higher performers." Read: Getting a Handle on Employee Motivation...
Models of Collaboration
"The goal of this article is to help you determine which model(s) of collaboration are important to your organization. Figure 1 (below) shows how each of these models relates to each other based on the size of the population that...
E-learning teams
Don't really have a proper category for this old tidbit which I found reviewing some old papers. The following are a couple excerpts from a conference paper I participated in way back in 1998. That paper was the final deliverable...
The Power of Process, The Perils of Process
The power of a well-defined process is the creation of order amidst chaos. When it works, it can be like a fine-tuned machine, and our design work is better for it. On the flip side, problems happen when people get complacent about the structure they are working within. Expanding phases excessively, becoming rigid about the order or duration of each phase, or even over-documenting the elements within a phase can backfire on a team. There are also problems when one team decides to work in a totally different way than another within the same group. Suddenly, no one knows what to expect, what the level of thinking or quality of the product will be, and internal fighting over whose process is best ensues.
Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams
"I’ve come to think of these competencies as the Nine Pillars. In a successful team, we can quickly and clearly identify which team members have which of these nine competencies, and where these competencies come into play in the...
Teams within an IT department
Whenever I finish a project (certainly large ones) I usually spend some time analysing my own failures and successes, and any problems I may have encountered within the team I might be working with. In the past we would take...
Dynamics of multi-cultural multi-lingual teams
"It's the journey not the destination" The process of building or the act of creating something is infinitely more enjoyable than the appreciation of the product itself. There are so many variables that affect a products development, an end product...
Film Director Metaphor
I was reading the discussions on Elegant Hack and other places about "big IA" and "little IA" when I found this link which I think uses an interesting metaphor to describe the work I do. From IAwiki: "This idea of...
Soloists
I seem to be living in a world of soloists. People with their own personal agendas unable to see the greater music that is capable by working in concert with other people. Years ago the Japanese showed the western world...
King Canute
"Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey". So spoke King Canute the Great, the legend says, seated on...
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