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Scott Berkun: straight, no bullshit

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, [...]

Ten ways to kill productivity and passion: 2) Inhibit individuality

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 [...]

A failure to follow is a failure to lead

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 [...]

Ten ways to kill productivity and passion: 1) Burden with bureaucracy

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 [...]

John Goldsby: collaborating from the bottom up

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 [...]

Jack Chambers: a passion for language and learning

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 [...]