Scott Berkun is the author of The Myths of Innovation and Making Things Happen. A prolific writer, Berkun blogs at his own web site and contributes to many other sites including BusinessWeek and Harvard Business Review. He is also an in-demand speaker and his experiences on the speaking circuit are captured in his most recent book, Confessions [Read more]
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This is the second in a series of ten posts about common problems that can lead teams to fail or otherwise limit their success. The previous post in this series was 1) Burden with bureaucracy. One of the most important steps towards maximizing the potential of any team is to treat the team as a group of individuals. An [Read more] This article about General Stanley McChrystal’s failure to follow is worth a read. It is authored, not surprisingly, by Barbara Kellerman, a strong proponent of following. I briefly covered the topic of following in a recent post: Top talent and decentralized leadership and of course it’s in my book. The summary is: hire the best [Read more] This is the first in a series of ten posts about common problems that can lead teams to fail or otherwise limit their success. Imagine the work environment of a team that is so free that it is completely devoid of rules, guidance, knowledge and experience. People in the team are unsure of how to proceed when presented [Read more] This is the second in a series of posts introducing people who have endorsed the Jazz Process book. The first post in this series introduced jazz biographer and linguistics professor, Jack Chambers. For this post I have the pleasure of writing about jazz bassist, John Goldsby. Goldsby was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1980 he [Read more] This is the first in a series of posts introducing people who have endorsed the Jazz Process book. To those in the world of jazz he is Jack Chambers, jazz biographer and journalist, perhaps best known as the author of Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis, the definitive biography of the pioneering jazz trumpeter. [Read more] Last Friday I was in London, Ontario speaking about the Jazz Process at a PMI Symposium. After my talk I offhandedly tweeted that the book would be out soon. A number of people asked me for more details and I thought it would be good to share them on this blog. The camera-ready manuscript was sent to [Read more] In their quest for greater productivity many teams look to tools and technology when the greatest resource they have, or should have, is already within the team. The United States military is the best equipped fighting force in the world with hardware that soldiers in many other countries can only dream about. One would think that [Read more] The Jazz Process book is currently in final proofreading and on schedule for release at the end of May. In fact I’m going through the final PDFs this weekend. I’m excited to see early interest in the book and I’m looking forward to when people can get it in their hands. IT professional Bob Lambert has [Read more] |
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