by Liane Davey | Nov 8, 2015 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team member, Horror Stories
A recent comment on the blog has got me a little hot under the collar. I don’t do it often, but today I’m dedicating the post to a response. The comment was on an earlier version of my post “How to say ‘no’ to a good idea.” The gist was that my advice missed a...
by Liane Davey | Nov 1, 2015 | Communication, Horror Stories, Personal Effectiveness, Right Words to Say
I had coffee recently with an amazing woman whom I met somewhat serendipitously a couple of months ago. After meeting her only once, I knew I wanted to stay in touch. She was magnetic: intelligent, insightful, energizing, and articulate. So I was shocked when...
by Liane Davey | Sep 30, 2015 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
In three sessions with three different teams recently, the key theme has been the lack of shared ownership: A phenomenon one participant described as “everyone swimming their own race.“ This affects the value added by the team in two ways. First, when you’re...
by Liane Davey | Sep 27, 2015 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Horror Stories, How to fix teams
Many of the team members I’m working with right now feel caught between two opposing forces. On the one hand, they’re living in matrix structures that require tightly aligned team behavior and interdependence. On the other hand, they feel the weight of the...
by Liane Davey | Sep 20, 2015 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Horror Stories, How to fix teams
“We’re lost, but we’re making good time.” This is my new favorite quote. A client shared it with me last week. She used it to describe the feeling in the room as the executive team that she is a part of raced to come up with a solution without being aligned on...
by Liane Davey | Sep 13, 2015 | Be a better team member, Horror Stories, Stress Management
About the fourth week of August this year, the early warning systems started signaling an oncoming tsunami. Three alarms went off for me. First, my editor at HBR.org asked if I could contribute to their increasingly popular series on stress in the workplace. Second,...
